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Remarks by President Trump in Briefing on Hurricane Michael

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***I wasn't going to share this but the last questions forced me to. About whatshisface, Pocahontas and "child separation" (aka keeping the kids from being raped and murdered while being trafficked)***

Q Sir, can I ask you an off-topic question? There’s been reports that the Saudis might say that Khashoggi was killed during an unauthorized interrogation. Does that sound (inaudible)?

THE PRESIDENT: I just saw that, Steve. I just don’t know. I’m going to have to see what they say. And we’re working very closely with Saudi Arabia and with Turkey, and they are working together to figure out what happened. And they want to know what happened, also.

So a lot of people are working on it, Steve. A lot of people. And we’ll be bound very much by that. We’ll see.

I heard that report but nobody knows if it’s an official report. So far, it’s just the rumor — the rumor of a report coming out.

Yes, ma’am.

Q What instructions did you give Pompeo — Secretary Pompeo — when he was sent over today?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I’m really sending him just to find out really, firsthand, what happened, what they know, what’s going on. He may go to Turkey; he may not.

He may meet with all of them together, but we want to find out what happened. And he’s got instructions to find out what happened. We’re talking about the whole the situation with Saudi Arabia that you’ve been reading about,

I’m sure, very much. But it’s a terrible situation, there’s no question about it. I don’t like it one bit.

Okay? Yes.

Q Has your thinking changed about Secretary Mnuchin going to the conference?

THE PRESIDENT: He’s going to make that decision. We’re going to see who’s going. He’s got a while to go. You know, it’s Friday. He has to know by the end of Friday. And we’ll make that decision. We haven’t made a decision about going yet.

But he’s going to make that decision sometime prior to Friday.

Q Since we already went off topic, Mr. President, Senator Warren released some of her DNA results that show a strong likelihood that she does have Native American roots.

THE PRESIDENT: How much? One one-thousandth? (Laughter.)

Q Do you owe her an apology? Or what about the money that —

THE PRESIDENT: No, I don’t. Absolutely. Do I owe her? She owes the country an apology.

What’s her percentage? One one-thousandth?

Q I don’t have the exact numbers in front of me.

THE PRESIDENT: When you have the percentage, tell me what the percentage is.

Q What about the money that you told her you would donate?

THE PRESIDENT: You mean if she gets the nomination, in a debate, where I was going to have her tested? I’ll only do it if I can test her personally. Okay? That will not be something I enjoy doing either.

Okay, what else?

Q Mr. President, over the weekend, you signaled that you’re considering reviving the child separation policy. Have you discussed this with —

THE PRESIDENT: I didn’t consider anything. I’m considering changing the immigration laws, and I’ve been doing it for a while.

Because we have the worst — as the Governor can tell you, as everybody can tell you, as Sonny can tell you from your time as governor — we have the worst immigration laws and dumbest immigration laws in the history of the world.

Okay? There is no country in the world that has such stupid laws as we do.

Somebody comes into our country, they put one foot on our land, and we have to bring them through a long court process. Or we have catch and release, which is even worse.

We catch them, Commissioner — we catch them, we find out they’re a criminal, we write them up, and then we release them and we tell them to come back in three or four years for a court case, and they never show up.

We have the dumbest laws in history, and it’s because of the Democrats. Because they want to have these laws that way. And it is so crazy, and we are getting them changed one by one. And we are very tough on the border, and we have to be very tough on the border.

So we’re looking at all immigration laws. They are a disaster. They’re a laughingstock all over the world. And this country will never be a laughingstock when I’m running it. We’ve made a lot of progress, too.

Thank you all very much. Thank you.