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    Trump hedges on some campaign promises in post-election interview with "60 Minutes"

    CBS NEWS November 13, 2016, 6:58 PM

    Trump hedges on some campaign promises in first full post-election interview with "60 Minutes"

    Donald Trump is only days into being the country’s president-elect, and the questions are already piling up for him. In his first extensive post-election interview with “60 Minutes,” Trump answered questions about his policy priorities as president, including which areas might ultimately look a bit different than what he said on the campaign trail.




    “It’s enormous,” he told correspondent Lesley Stahl with “60 Minutes.” “I’ve done a lotta big things, I’ve never done anything like this. It is -- it is so big, it is so -- it’s so enormous, it’s so amazing.”


    Asked whether it took his breath away late last Tuesday night when he realized he would be the 45th president, Trump replied: “A little bit.”


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    “And I think -- I realized that this is a whole different life for me now,” he added.

    As Trump adjusts to his post-election reality, there are issues on which his post-election stances don’t quite match his campaign-trail rhetoric -- several of which he addressed with “60 Minutes.” Speaking about his potential picks for the Supreme Court, Trump was asked whether he supports same-sex marriage -- and he said he is “fine” with it.


    “It’s irrelevant because it was already settled. It’s law,” he said. “It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done … these cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And I’m fine with that.”


    On other issues, too, Trump signaled a willingness to depart from his previous campaign statements. Despite frequent cries of “Lock her up!” and “Hillary for prison” at his campaign rallies -- and his suggestion during the presidential debates that he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into Hillary Clinton’s private email server -- Trump said he has not decided whether to prosecute Clinton.


    “I’m going to think about it,” he said. “Um, I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on healthcare, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. We want to have a great immigration bill.

    And I want to focus on -- all of these other things that we’ve been talking about.”


    Clinton “did some bad things,” he said, but added that ultimately the Clintons are “good people.”


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    “I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them,” he said. “They’re, they’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them. And I will give you a very, very good and definitive answer the next time we do 60 Minutes together.”

    On health care, Trump said he is open to amending the Affordable Care Act or keeping pieces of it that are popular, such as coverage for people with pre-existing conditions or children under 26 who want to stay on their parents’ health insurance.


    “It happens to be one of the strongest assets,” Trump said about insuring people with pre-existing conditions. “It adds cost, but it’s very much something we’re gonna try and keep.”

    When it comes to immigration, Trump said his priority is to deport undocumented immigrants with a criminal record -- which he estimated would include 2 to 3 million people -- and said he is open for some of his famous border wall to be made up of fences instead.

    “For certain areas I would, but certain areas, a wall is more appropriate,” he said. “I’m very good at this, it’s called construction.”


    Trump, who met President Obama for the first time when Trump visited the White House last week, called the president “terrific,” adding that despite their differences of opinion he had a productive 90-minute conversation with Mr. Obama.


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    “I found him to be terrific. I found him to be-- very smart and very nice,” Trump said. “...Again, I never met him before, but we had -- we had a very good chemistry going. And -- and I really found -- it might not be that I agree with him, but I really found the -- the conversation unbelievably interesting.”

    Trump said he believes he’s a “sober” person, not the “wild man” he believes the media has made him out to be. That, he said, was apparent in his serious expression while meeting with President Obama at the White House last week.


    “No, I think I’m a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different -- in my case, a little bit of a wild man,” he said. “I’m not. I’m actually not. I’m a very sober person. But it was respect for the office, it was respect for the President.”


    Trump said Clinton was gracious in congratulating him for his victory -- and despite referring to her throughout the campaign as “Crooked Hillary,” said Clinton is “very strong and very smart.”


    “She couldn’t have been nicer. She just said, ‘Congratulations, Donald, well done,’” he said. “And I said, ‘I want to thank you very much, you were a great competitor.’ She is very strong and very smart.”


    Does Trump regret the harsh and often vitriolic tone of the campaign? He says he doesn’t.


    “I can’t regret. No-- I wish it were softer, I wish it were nicer, I wish maybe even it was more on policy, or whatever you want to say,” he said. “But … it really is something that I’m very proud of. I mean, it was a tremendous campaign.”


    Still, Trump said he was “saddened” and “surprised” to hear that his supporters are inciting violence after his victory, especially targeting minorities or gay people. Asked whether he had any message for those supporters, Trump replied: “Stop it.”


    “I would say don’t do it, that’s terrible, ‘cause I’m gonna bring this country together,” he responded. Told that they were harassing Latinos and Muslims, he added, “I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, ‘Stop it.’ If it-- if it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it.”

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    “I’m going to think about it,” he said. “Um, I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on healthcare, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. We want to have a great immigration bill.
    We don't need a new immigration bill. What we need to do is fully enforce our immigration laws as written. A new bill would have to be comprehensive to gain non-partisan support. The Democrats wouldn't even consider such a bill that didn't include some sort of illegal alien amnesty. Furthermore, the Republicans would demand a guest-worker plan be part of the bill. No, we don't need a new "immigration bill". If you want to strengthen our current laws, do it individually. For example, pass a national E-Verify bill, a new fence bill, new visa entry and exit system bill, etc., etc. Let's attack this one issue at a time. We've already seen what happens when we attempt to lump a bunch of issues into a single bill. Remember the enforcement bill the U.S. House attempt to pass years ago? That bill never even got consideration in the U.S. Senate. Unfortunately we still have too many amnesty supporting Republicans in the U.S. Senate. Loading a bill down with too many issues will probably doom it to failure. Let's do this one issue at a time.

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    He wants to do several things like authorize state and local governments to enforce US immigration law. He wants to stop automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens. He wants to add incarceration penalties for re-entering illegally after being deported. He wants to increase the number of ICE Agents by 3 times. He wants to pause legal immigration and add stronger immigration vetting procedures. He wants to cut illegal aliens and immigrants off of welfare eligibility and income tax credits. He wants to enhance the American Worker protection provisions on work visas and increase the penalties for violating them. He wants to secure the borders and probably needs some laws and resources for that. So maybe he's thinking have all these in one great bill to solve these problems with stronger laws that provide more protections for Americans against this in the future.

    Trump wants to fix things in a way and manner that lasts for many many years after 2024 so the country doesn't slip back into the mess we have now simply because we have a different type of President in the future. Whether such a bill can pass the Houses of Wackos, who knows, but at least it sounds like he wants to try. If we can't pass them now with his mandate and control of both Houses, then it would be impossible to do it a another time when we didn't control Congress and the White House. Now does seem like the time to do it.

    But I agree that we do not need to wait for such a bill to pass. We need to be moving forward rapidly with the laws and resources we have now. And I'm sure he will be.
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