Trump says he’d consider trying U.S. terror suspects in military tribunals
Donald Trump said Thursday he might push for Americans accused of terrorism to be tried in military tribunals at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Under current federal law, it’s illegal to try U.S. citizens in military courts. But in a brief but wide-ranging interview with the Miami Herald Trump said that “I would say they could be tried there, that would be fine.”
He criticized President Obama for “allowing people to get out that are terrible people.”
Trump told the Herald he would prefer using military commissions rather than the civilian judicial system to consider terrorist cases, including those involving U.S. citizens.
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