Reporter: Mr. President, on Venezuela, can you tell us more about why the airspace above Venezuela should be considered closed?

President Trump [Air Force One]: Because we consider Venezuela to be not a very friendly country. They sent millions of people, really, and probably, a number in excess of that, and a lot of those people shouldn't be in our country. From jails, from gangs, from drug dealers; from all of the people that came into our country that shouldn't have been in our country. Causing a lot of problems. And drugs.

Reporter: Does your warning mean an airstrike is imminent, or should we not read it that way

President Trump: Don't read anything into it.

Reporter: Can you explain more about why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?

President Trump: Well, I don't know who you're talking about.

Reporter: Juan Orlando Hernández

President Trump: Well, I was told, I was asked by Honduras, many of the people of Honduras; they said it was a Biden set-up. I don't mean Biden. Biden didn't know he was alive. But it was the people that surround the Resolute Desk. Surround Biden when he was there…the people of Honduras really thought he was set-up, and it was a terrible thing…they said it was a Biden administration set-up. And I looked at the facts, and I agreed with them.

Reporter: How long does your administration plan to pause asylum into the U.S.?

President Trump: I think a long time.

Reporter: Can you give any kind of time- what's a long time?

President Trump: We don't want 'em. We don't want those people. We have enough problems. We don't want those people.

Reporter: Is that a year, two years?

President Trump: No time limit. But it could be a long time. We don't want those people, you understand that? Let me just tell you something. We don't want those people. Does that make sense? You know why we don't want 'em? Because many of them are no good, and they shouldn't be in our country.

Reporter: What does that mean by those people?

President Trump: People from different countries that are not friendly to us, and countries that are out of control themselves. Countries like Somalia that have virtually no government, no military, no police. All they do is go around killing each other. Then they come into our country and tell us how to run our country. We don't want them.

Reporter: Do you stand by that claim of calling Tim Walz retarded?

President Trump: Yeah, I think there's something wrong with him. Absolutely. Sure. You have a problem with it? You know what, I think there's something wrong with him. Anybody that would do what he did. Anybody that would allow those people into his state, and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia; we give billions of dollars to Somalia; it's not even a country. It doesn't function like a country. It's got a name, but it doesn't function like a country. Yeah, there's something wrong with Walz.

Reporter: You said that you might denaturalize some American citizens-

President Trump: You mean people that are in here that shouldn't be here?

Reporter: Well, that became Americans. Are you trying to revoke their citizenship?

President Trump: We have criminals that came into our country, and they were naturalized, maybe through Biden or somebody that didn't know what they were doing. If I have the power to do it, and I'm not sure that I do, but if I do, I would denaturalize them.

>>23923502

Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees

@Minnesota_DHS

This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz’s friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.

As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it’s Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.

https://x.com/Minnesota_DHS/status/1994993895428461006