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President Donald Trump has said that he would consider sending Sayfullo Saipov, the New York terror suspect, to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Trump called Saipov “an animal” and said he would “certainly consider” sending him to Gitmo.
“Send him to Gitmo,” Trump reportedly said before he attended a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday. “I would certainly consider that… Send him to Gitmo.”
However, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders later told reporters that President Trump was not “necessarily advocating” that Saipov be sent to Guantanamo. She insisted that Trump was only saying that he supports the idea “but he was not necessarily advocating for it.”
“[Trump] certainly would support it if he felt like that was the best move,” she said.
Trump revealed that his administration had initiated moves to end the State Department’s diversity visa lottery program through which Saipov reportedly obtained the green card that allowed him to immigrate to the U.S.