Trump slams Justice Department for 'watered down' travel ban
By Louis Nelson
06/05/2017 07:17 AM EDT
President Donald Trump complained Monday morning that his travel ban executive order, one that the White House on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate, had been “watered down” by the Justice Department in order to pass legal muster.
Still, he wrote on Twitter, the controversial measure is necessary despite the legal hurdles it has faced thus far.
“People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!” Trump wrote early Monday morning in a multi-post flurry. “The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.”
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