Trump Distances Himself From Outgoing Border Patrol Chief

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 15: Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner John Sanders listens during a news conference where Lindsey Graham, (R-SC)., is proposing legislation to address the crisis at the southern b... WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 15: Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner John Sanders listens during a news conference where Lindsey Graham, (R-SC)., is proposing legislation to address the crisis at the southern border at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. Senate Republicans met with Vice President Mike Pence and White House Advisor Jared Kushner yesterday to discuss President Donald Trump's plan to overhaul the immigration system. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump sought to put distance between himself and the retiring acting Border Patrol chief John Sanders, saying that he doesn’t think he ever met him, though he’s heard good things.

“I didn’t speak to him. I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to him actually,” Trump said when asked if he had a hand in the ouster. “We have some very good people running it. And, you know, I don’t know anything about it. I hear he’s a very good man, a good person. I don’t know him. I don’t think I ever spoke to him.”

Sanders’ impending resignation comes as the outcry grows over the conditions immigrants, especially underage ones, have been living in at the border. Children at the station in Clint, Texas were reported to lack clean clothes, access to showers and sufficient nutrition. Though most of the children were removed from the dire situation after reports were published, 100 of them were recently shunted back.

Sanders has held the post in an acting capacity since Trump tapped former Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan to replace ex-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

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  1. Yup. He was just the covfefe boy. Never knew him.

  2. Trump Distances Himself From Outgoing Border Patrol Chief …

    … elaborating, “What he did was beyond the Pale.”

  3. Shouldn’t Sanders speak out about his resignation?

  4. “I didn’t speak to him. I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to him actually,”

    How many times has this POS used this line? Anyone keeping track?

  5. Avatar for zd123 zd123 says:

    I’ll give it two hours before the photos of the two of them together surface…pretty much happens every time Trump says he has never met someone.

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