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Trump Thinks Shutdown Fight Will Distract Democrats From Investigations
Posted on Fri, Dec 28th, 2018 by Leo Vidal
Trump Thinks Shutdown Fight Will Distract Democrats From Investigations
White House officials are hoping that Trump’s government shutdown has created a situation that will benefit him politically as we move into the new year.
According to a new report in The Daily Beast,Trump and his aides believe that the fight over a government funding bill will distract the Nancy Pelosi and the new Democratic majority in the House from pursuing investigations into him and his family.
Sources close to the White House say the administration believes that the shutdown over Trump’s border wall funding will set partisan voters against one another. They think this will create headaches for Pelosi, the probable new Speaker of the House. As a result, they believe Pelosi will not be able to give her full attention to the various House committee probes that have been promised by other House Democratic leaders.
Several incoming committee chairmen, such as Adam Schiff on the intelligence committee, Elijah Cummings on the oversight committee, and Jerry Nadler on the judicial committee, have said they would immediately open investigations into Trump at the start of the new Congress.
But according to one source close to the White House:
“The more the focus is on the wall, the more Pelosi is forced to focus on this fight instead of the investigations.
It’s a situation where Trump has no choice but to shut it down. It’s the best of the worst choices. It’s really the only choice because I think there are people who would vote for him today who might not if he gave in too quickly.”
It’s a situation where Trump has no choice but to shut it down. It’s the best of the worst choices. It’s really the only choice because I think there are people who would vote for him today who might not if he gave in too quickly.”
Trump allies are now saying that the president believes the shutdown is a winning issue for him because it will trap the Democrats into “screwing themselves.”
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“I don’t see this as going well for Trump,” said one top ranking congressional Democratic aide. “He keeps digging himself further in a hole with his every comment and move. The idea that they’re somehow doing good in this shows they’re clearly living in a Fox News bubble.”
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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/12/28/trump-thinks-shutdown-fight-will-distract-democrats-from-investigations.html
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Sorry, I know it takes up a lot of room but I cant stop LAUGHING
He really has no clue how government works.
I think Ms Pelosi and Mr Schumer are a little smarter than he is.
