Trump Bemoans Bombing Suspect Getting Hospital Care, Lawyer

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The “bad part” about bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami being captured alive is that now he’ll be treated to “amazing” medical care and an “outstanding” lawyer, Donald Trump said Monday.

After praising the efforts of law enforcement, Trump bemoaned how this “evil thug who planted the bombs” in New York and New Jersey over the weekend is now receiving medical attention after being wounded in a shootout with police earlier in the day.

“But the bad part, now we will give him amazing hospitalization. He will be taken care of by some of the best doctors in the world,” the GOP nominee told the crowd at a rally in Estero, Florida. “He will be given a fully modern and updated hospital room. And he’ll probably even have room service knowing the way our country is.”

Trump added that “on top of all of that, he will be represented by an outstanding lawyer,” saying Rahami’s case would take years to work its way through the criminal justice system until his eventual punishment is diluted. The Sixth Amendment ensures the right to a fair and speedy public trial and the right to a lawyer for all criminal defendants.

“What a sad situation. We must have speedy but fair trials and we must deliver a just and very harsh punishment to these people,” Trump said, to big cheers from the crowd.

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  1. Because we have this amazing health care system and because citizens are entitled to representation.

  2. Well, Trump could’ve caught the guy and put his 5th Avenue hypothesis to the test, but he was too busy tapping out tweets.

  3. Will a President Trump comment on every court case in America, poisoning the jury pool, making unproven assumptions?

    He’s a total idiot.

  4. Thanks, Obamacare and ObamaLawyer! Love them taxpayer giveaways…

    Seriously, Donnie dimwit, you can get more info from a live suspect than a dead one. It’s means you can waterboard him, find out where his family lives, then kill them…

  5. And I’ll bet the cellphone the suspect was using to set off the bombs was one of them free Obamaphones!

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