Maggie Haberman: ‘Trump, at Least in Language, Has Never Been Especially Respectful of Sovereign Borders’

RUSH EXCERPT:

HABERMAN: “He also keeps talking about Canada as a 51st state that is clearly much more of a troll and sort of a dominance play. But in terms of Trump talking about military action, or at least not ruling it out, as Caitlin said, that caught a lot of people by surprise. It‘s not clear if that‘s actually something he‘s thinking about or something he said, because he was quite visibly in a pretty bad mood during this press conference. I think primarily because of the legal challenges that he‘s facing this week in the New York criminal case, and with the possibility of the Jack Smith report and the documents federal case getting released. So what that looks like when he gets into office remains to be seen, but it‘s not a surprise that Trump, at least in his language, has never been especially respectful of sovereign borders. We‘ll see what that looks like in actual practice.”