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Sen. Eric Schmitt on Trump's half-baked idea to reopen Alcatraz: "President Trump is very smart to put this out there and have a place where the worst of the worst go in this country."

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I feel like Trump probably takes perverse joy in shouting out random nonsense that no one has given thought for one second and then watch republicans scramble to come up with justification for it.

The minds of these maggots must be a cesspool. Constantly obsessing about the most violent of criminals, believing the most degrading things about immigrants, women, and trans people. Living in constant fear that someone somewhere might get something they don't deserve.

How much do you want to bet no one has done the study of feasibility or cost? Next we’ll hear that so many immigrants took the beautiful $1,000 and deported themselves so we don’t need Alcatraz. Or it will be Biden’s fault.🙄

Alcatraz was closed decades ago for lots of good reasons. If it was reopened, it would almost certainly require demolition and a totally new structure. And because of its location, it was also expensive to operate,

All Trump cares about is "appearances"... this is a #$%! stupid idea that costs a ridiculous amount of money, but he thinks it's going to make him look "cool" and "tough" and that's all that matters to the jackass.

I wonder if the other prison corps who run the supermax sites are sending trump bribes I mean donations to get him to throw our cancer research money at their facilities too My family spent time in Lewis Stiner & Florence and anyone who thinks those places are too easy is a sadistic psychopath

This is getting re-goddamn-diculuos. A sitting senator of the United States saying something positive about such an asinine & unserious idea like this. There's no bottom to where these spineless politicians will go. Just imagine if Biden had said anything remotely close to this garbage.

MAGA cult Republicans are all such pathetic, shameless boot-licking idiots. There is no shortage of prison space in America. In fact the US, to its great shame, is the prison capital of the world. And we already have a place where the worst of the worst go in this country... the Trump White House.

I guess I’d like to know why the current federal prisons aren’t sufficient, but I think I already know the answer is because they’re not vile enough.

What about the tourism? Will people still be able to go to Alcatraz if it’s a prison?? This is beyond ridiculous. I would venture a guess that getting Alcatraz functional costs more and tourism would bring in more $$$. But not the point I guess.

Always punishment, never rehabilitation. Here’s the thing though, Eric. I thought the president was focused on debt and reducing spending, and the cost to make Alcatraz functional again would be astronomical and you want to use taxpayer money to house immigrants instead of deporting them…

Everything, everything in his understanding of the world is based on some half remembered thing from an old movie. If it hasn't been in some old movie, he knows nothing about it.

Maybe they want Alcatraz (a Federal Park) for the monetary value of setting up condos with a sweet view of the bay and SF? Maybe wrangle Treasure Island out from under SF and take that property as well? These billionaires know no boundaries - only what they can buy for cheap and sell for millions

I honest love and want Republicans to put ALL of their focus on reopening Alcatraz. Because it's a really stupid idea that'll waste a ton of money, won't work, but also create less damage than a lot of Republicans other stupid ideas! So keep going with that Schmitt!

Does he know they don't even have a freshwater supply on Alcatraz and you'd have to ship it in? Does he know it was closed because of how expensive it was to run a prison island? But sure, let's pay over $100 million to renovate an island that can hold 300 prisoners. The math ain't mathing.

Not only does he not know, he also doesn't care. It's bullshit to distract from him saying that he doesn't think he has to uphold the Constitution. The Constitution he took an oath, twice, to uphold.

Trump IS the worst among us, but yet he won't be the first person locked up, will he? He js a rapist, a financial fraud, a conman, a terrorist, a traitor to the United States.