President Trump said Thursday that he would roll out a revised executive order to try to get his temporary travel ban in place next week.
“We’re going to put in a new executive order next week sometime,” he said during a lengthy news conference at the White House, where he insisted that his administration was “running like a fine-tuned machine” and repeatedly castigated the “dishonest media” for supposedly reporting “fake news.”
Trump blamed the failure of his first executive order to pass judicial muster squarely on a federal district judge and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
“We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban but had a bad decision,” he said, adding that the new order would “ be very much tailored to what I consider a very bad [court] decision. The rollout was perfect.“
The appeals court upheld a restraining order issued by a Seattle judge, ruling that the government did not introduce enough evidence to show that Trump’s temporary refugee and travel ban was needed so quickly.
The Justice Department has appealed that ruling.
“In the meantime we’re vetting very, very strongly, very, very strongly. But we need help and we need help by getting that executive order passed,” the president said.