CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem stated Wednesday that if the alleged New York City terrorist wasn’t tried in the courts, terrorists would “win.”
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Kayyem said, “There is nothing different about the evidence, nothing different about the courts that would sort of justify, even if you could legally, taking it to Guantanamo Bay. So, I think the president is making a political argument, not a legal argument. One quick thing, if you want the terrorists to win, you have them abandon our judicial system, which is the envy of the world. This is a case that the New York judicial system can handle, the federal judicial system can handle.”
Trump said Wednesday that he would “certainly consider” sending terror suspect and Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov to Guantanamo Bay.
Saipov has been arrested after allegedly using a rented truck to kill nine people and injure eleven in Manhattan. He pledged himself to ISIS. (RELATED: Truck Driver Kills Eight NYC Pedestrians In ‘Deliberate Attack,’ Screams ‘Allahu Akbar’)