Saturday, March 3, 2018

Trump's Gun Control Meeting

Trump met with lawmakers to discuss gun control measures. Here is a transcript of that meeting. It will come in handy as time passes and some will misstate or misreport what happened in the meeting. So bookmark this transcript for later.



https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/28/17064540/donald-trump-gun-control-full-transcript-roundtable



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WAPO does just that ---- Reporting on Trump's words just a few days later, notice his proposed reforms are no longer proposals; now they're suggestions.



'He suggested publicly last
Wednesday that he favored tougher background checks and would forgo due
process in taking away guns from the mentally ill.....''


He didn't SUGGEST he favored these notions. He outright stated that he DOES favor them! 




"I think congress will be fine. If we can come up with something very
strong, very heavy with mental health, the background checks are so
important."




[To Vice President Pence]  "Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court. Because that’s
another system. A lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so
long to go to court, to get the due process procedures. I like taking
the guns early."





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