The Left Is Checking Under the Bed for Tom Homan: 'Trump Doesn’t Have a Limitation on His Authority'

RedState 

President Donald Trump’s ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan, officially the White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, took members of the mainstream media by surprise on Wednesday, when, as he strode by the White House, he came when they beckoned for a few questions. The answers he provided appeared to leave them stunned to such an extent that there were no further follow-ups.

The brief interaction with Homan, carried by CSPAN, came in response to a question about the crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., ordered by President Trump. A reporter was heard to ask first, “Can we ask about the crime crackdown so far, how you've seen it go in the first 48 hours, if you will, and also what are we looking at in terms of next steps?”

Homan answered brusquely,

“Look, I know they've taken some bad people off the street, but in addition to that, I think it sends a strong message of consequences. I mean deterrence. I think a lot of the criminals are staying off the street because they know there's an increased presence of law enforcement. They're going to take zero tolerance, zero tolerance on criminal activity in DC, as the president said. So I think it works both ways. Number one, taking bad guys off the street, actually arresting some folks. Second of all, the deterrence message is keeping people off the street from doing violent things so they know there's an uptick in law enforcement.”

The second question came with a journalist asking, “Do you fear that if the timeframe is that after 30 days, ‘Hey, our authority is over…’ that then these criminals that took off the streets might come right back?”

Homan’s response was immediate and direct; he told the press that “The president's authority is never over. The president's going to do what he has to do to make this country safe again in every city in this nation. Anything else? That was easy.”

Only days before the impromptu press conference, the White House official X account shared a meme video of Homan appearing similar to the ‘Baby Sun’ character from the children’s television series ‘Teletubbies’ rising over the U.S.-Mexico border wall while saying “I'm going to say if you're in the country illegally you shouldn't feel comfortable. Absolutely not. I won’t feel comfortable if I’m in a country illegally. But I mean, for me, I don't feel comfortable if I'm not in a country legally. If I'm in some other country illegally I'm not really comfortable. You shouldn’t be comfortable, either because when you enter this country illegally you have committed a crime you are criminal.”

Between the White House’s light-hearted trolling that is likely nightmare fuel for open-border illegal immigration advocates and Homan’s naturally direct answer Wednesday, it seems fairly certain that the Border Czar is living rent-free in many left-leaning minds, and that many more are likely checking for him under the bed tonight.