DAVE ROSS

Trump doesn’t know and it doesn’t matter

Aug 26, 2015, 6:46 AM | Updated: 7:06 am

Donald Trump recently dodged a question, and a reporter, dealing with how he actually plans to depo...

Donald Trump recently dodged a question, and a reporter, dealing with how he actually plans to deport 11 million illegal immigrants. (AP)

(AP)

Donald Trump has said he will deport, at least temporarily, the 11 million immigrants who are in the Unites States illegally.

And Univision anchor Jorge Ramos had been trying to get Trump to explain just how he’d do that. Send the army? Get neighbors to snitch? So Ramos interrupted Trump’s news conference in Dubuque, Iowa hoping to squeeze the answer out of him.

Trump responded, like Trump.

“Excuse me, sit down, you weren’t called. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down,” Trump said before Ramos was escorted out of the room by a bouncer.

But that looked bad. Trump’s still angry at Megyn Kelly for her tough questions, now he kicks out a Hispanic reporter asking tough questions? Looks like he ducking a fight.

So he asks Ramos back into the room.

And Ramos goes for it. He asks again and again &#8212 how will you deport 11 million people?

Well, Trump can’t answer the question because he doesn’t know. But he brilliantly tells Ramos how he’ll start doing it.

“The one thing were are going to start with immediately, are the gangs, and the real bad ones,” Trump said. “And you do agree there are some real bad ones. Do you agree with that, or do you think everyone is just perfect?”

Well, of course! Everybody wants to be rid of the gangs and Trump turns the question back on Ramos.

“They got some rough, illegal immigrants in those gangs. Do you mind if I send them out? Do you mind if I send them back to Mexico?” Trump asks. “They’re gonna be out so fast your head is gonna spin.”

And just like that he slips off the hook. Because the audience just heard a guy say with complete confidence the gangs are out. The other 11 million? Minor detail.

I think Trump is actually more like Obama than he lets on. He’s selling hope and change. But instead of saying “Yes We Can,” it’s “Yes I can.” You don’t believe him?

You’ll have to elect him and find out.

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