Donald Trump looked visibly agitated when asked about a Latin legal term during a White House roundtable. Trump was meeting with conservative influencers in the State Dining Room to discuss the movement called ‘Antifa’. A reporter asked if he’d ever considered suspending habeas corpus, which is a court order that commands someone holding a person in detention to bring that person before the court.
This law deals with the so‑called insurrectionists and speeds up deportations of undocumented immigrants. “Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens?” the reporter asked.
As per The Daily Beast, Donald Trump seemed puzzled and asked, “Suspending who?”, apparently mishearing the phrase as a name. When the reporter repeated, “habeas corpus,” Trump responded, “Oh, oh, I don’t know, I’d rather leave that to Kristi,” as he gestured towards the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.