Trump planning to sign executive order keeping Gitmo open: report
By John Bowden - 01/25/18 07:41 PM EST
President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would keep the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, open, according to a leaked document obtained by Politico.
Trump will reportedly announce his plans in the days ahead of or during his State of the Union speech.
The order will be largely symbolic in nature, as President Obama was never able to transfer the last of Guantanamo Bay's prisoners and close the prison during his last term in office. But the former president did oversee 200 prisoners' transfer from the island, which now only holds 41 detainees.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/370812-trump-planning-to-sign-executive-order-keeping-gitmo-open-report
