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Remarks by President Trump Regarding Secretary Acosta and Jeffrey Epstein
Q Mr. President, are you visiting an immigration detention center like the Vice President?
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah - and very importantly, today, in a few hours, Vice President Pence and the head of Homeland Security are taking the press and congresspeople into detention centers. And we're the ones that said they were crowded. They're crowded because we have a lot of people. But they're in good shape.
And the reason is because the fake-news New York Times wrote a phony story. What Border Patrol is doing - they've become nurses and janitors and doctors. And they're not trained for that. What they've done is so incredible.
So they're touring detention centers. And that was my idea because I read a phony story in the New York Times today - or the other day - about the detention centers, about the conditions. And I had people calling me up at the highest levels from Border Patrol and ICE, almost crying, about that phony story.
And they never saw anything. They have phony sources. They don't even have sources. They write whatever they want. The New York Times is a very dishonest newspaper. They write what they want. And what they do is a tremendous disservice to this country. They are truly the enemy of the people, I'll tell you that. They are the enemy of the people. And what they wrote about detention centers is unfair.
Now, I believe it's going to be the center they wrote about, but we're taking a tour. They are - I'd love to be there, but I'm going to Ohio, Wisconsin.
Q Are you going to - are you going any time?
THE PRESIDENT: I'll be going. I'll be going.
But I've seen it. I've seen it. And these centers are - I mean, to have Ocasio say, "They're drinking out of toilets." She made that up, okay? That's a phony story. She made it up. And these people, they - I'll tell you what, I've been with ICE and I've been with Border Patrol a lot. They love those people coming across the border. They love them. And I've seen it. They love them.
Q Does your administration have an estimate of how many illegals are living in the United States? Have they given you a number?
THE PRESIDENT: So one of the reasons the Democrats don't want to have a census is because the number of people in the United States, for many years - you know, for years, you've heard 11 million; it's far greater than that. But we'll find out because I'm going to do something much more accurate than the way we - the way we did it in the census would never have been very accurate. What we're doing will be much more accurate.
Q Anything on Iran, Mr. President? Anything on Iran?
THE PRESIDENT: The wall is being built. The wall is being built. We had a couple of very good decisions. We had one bad decision. It's very tough.
Again, Paul Ryan let us down. Paul Ryan was a terrible Speaker. Frankly, he was a baby. He didn't know what the hell he was doing. The wall let us down.
Now, in all fairness, the problem with - during - when we had both houses - in the Senate, you need 60 votes. Well, we don't have 60 votes. We had 51 last time. Now we have 53 because we won during the '18 election, which nobody wants to say, just so you understand.
So the wall is being built. We had one setback. We had one tremendous victory.
And I had a tremendous victory that was very rarely covered by the press. Two days ago, I won the emoluments case. That was the biggest case of them all. I won the emoluments case. People don't know that, by being President, I lose billions of dollars. By my being President - and especially in money I can't make because I don't do deals. But I lose billions of dollars.
But, another thing, I get a salary of $400- or $450,000 a year. I don't think any other President has ever given up - it's a lot of money, almost a half a million dollars. I give it up. I don't think I've ever seen anybody say, "I give up my salary." I'm not looking for credit, but I give up my salary. I get zero. I get zero.
But you know what makes me happy? That we're doing a great job. And I want to thank Alex Acosta. He was a great, great Secretary.
Q Anything on Iran, sir? Sir, I asked about Iran. I asked about Iran - I asked about Iran, not the wall. Could you give us an update on your thoughts on Iran?
THE PRESIDENT: Iran better be careful. They're treading on very dangerous territory. Iran, if you're listening, you better be careful.
Q Mr. President, on Turkey: Will you sanction Turkey?
Q Should Epstein stay behind bars?
Q Yesterday you got a win in the Ninth Circuit court over Title X funding. What's your reaction? And are you trying to completely defund Planned Parenthood?
THE PRESIDENT: They had a big win yesterday. We have some very big cases having to do with that. We'll see where it (inaudible).
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THE PRESIDENT: Yeah - and very importantly, today, in a few hours, Vice President Pence and the head of Homeland Security are taking the press and congresspeople into detention centers. And we're the ones that said they were crowded. They're crowded because we have a lot of people. But they're in good shape.
And the reason is because the fake-news New York Times wrote a phony story. What Border Patrol is doing - they've become nurses and janitors and doctors. And they're not trained for that. What they've done is so incredible.
So they're touring detention centers. And that was my idea because I read a phony story in the New York Times today - or the other day - about the detention centers, about the conditions. And I had people calling me up at the highest levels from Border Patrol and ICE, almost crying, about that phony story.
And they never saw anything. They have phony sources. They don't even have sources. They write whatever they want. The New York Times is a very dishonest newspaper. They write what they want. And what they do is a tremendous disservice to this country. They are truly the enemy of the people, I'll tell you that. They are the enemy of the people. And what they wrote about detention centers is unfair.
Now, I believe it's going to be the center they wrote about, but we're taking a tour. They are - I'd love to be there, but I'm going to Ohio, Wisconsin.
Q Are you going to - are you going any time?
THE PRESIDENT: I'll be going. I'll be going.
But I've seen it. I've seen it. And these centers are - I mean, to have Ocasio say, "They're drinking out of toilets." She made that up, okay? That's a phony story. She made it up. And these people, they - I'll tell you what, I've been with ICE and I've been with Border Patrol a lot. They love those people coming across the border. They love them. And I've seen it. They love them.
Q Does your administration have an estimate of how many illegals are living in the United States? Have they given you a number?
THE PRESIDENT: So one of the reasons the Democrats don't want to have a census is because the number of people in the United States, for many years - you know, for years, you've heard 11 million; it's far greater than that. But we'll find out because I'm going to do something much more accurate than the way we - the way we did it in the census would never have been very accurate. What we're doing will be much more accurate.
Q Anything on Iran, Mr. President? Anything on Iran?
THE PRESIDENT: The wall is being built. The wall is being built. We had a couple of very good decisions. We had one bad decision. It's very tough.
Again, Paul Ryan let us down. Paul Ryan was a terrible Speaker. Frankly, he was a baby. He didn't know what the hell he was doing. The wall let us down.
Now, in all fairness, the problem with - during - when we had both houses - in the Senate, you need 60 votes. Well, we don't have 60 votes. We had 51 last time. Now we have 53 because we won during the '18 election, which nobody wants to say, just so you understand.
So the wall is being built. We had one setback. We had one tremendous victory.
And I had a tremendous victory that was very rarely covered by the press. Two days ago, I won the emoluments case. That was the biggest case of them all. I won the emoluments case. People don't know that, by being President, I lose billions of dollars. By my being President - and especially in money I can't make because I don't do deals. But I lose billions of dollars.
But, another thing, I get a salary of $400- or $450,000 a year. I don't think any other President has ever given up - it's a lot of money, almost a half a million dollars. I give it up. I don't think I've ever seen anybody say, "I give up my salary." I'm not looking for credit, but I give up my salary. I get zero. I get zero.
But you know what makes me happy? That we're doing a great job. And I want to thank Alex Acosta. He was a great, great Secretary.
Q Anything on Iran, sir? Sir, I asked about Iran. I asked about Iran - I asked about Iran, not the wall. Could you give us an update on your thoughts on Iran?
THE PRESIDENT: Iran better be careful. They're treading on very dangerous territory. Iran, if you're listening, you better be careful.
Q Mr. President, on Turkey: Will you sanction Turkey?
Q Should Epstein stay behind bars?
Q Yesterday you got a win in the Ninth Circuit court over Title X funding. What's your reaction? And are you trying to completely defund Planned Parenthood?
THE PRESIDENT: They had a big win yesterday. We have some very big cases having to do with that. We'll see where it (inaudible).
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