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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:10 AM Jan 2019

Trump Insists He Won't Budge on Border Wall

Source: PoliticalWire


January 22, 2019 at 8:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard

President Trump reiterated on Twitter that he would not budge on his demand to fund a border wall.

Said Trump: “Without a Wall our Country can never have Border or National Security. With a powerful Wall or Steel Barrier, Crime Rates (and Drugs) will go substantially down all over the U.S. The Dems know this but want to play political games. Must finally be done correctly. No Cave!”

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Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2019/01/22/trump-insists-he-wont-budge-on-border-wall-demand/




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beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
2. GOP abandons trump...he becomes irrelevant with veto overrides
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:15 AM
Jan 2019

then his days are numbered before removal from office


he still doesn't get it. He doesn;t care period but a good number of GOP'ers will as they fight to survive the coming tidal wave in 2020

Botany

(70,504 posts)
3. Thanx to DUer Elleng/Merkley Reveals Secret Trump Administration Plan to Create Border Crisis.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:17 AM
Jan 2019

Merkley Reveals Secret Trump Administration Plan to Create Border Crisis.

Jan 17

'Leaked memo shows deliberate plans to create a border crisis.

Tonight, in a bombshell NBC News report, I revealed a previously secret document that shows the Trump Administration deliberately plotting to create a crisis at the southern border. The memo, dated December 2017, details deliberate plans to implement a family separation policy as a deterrent to would-be asylum seekers and lays out strategies to increase detention of migrant children. Despite many statements by the President and senior political appointees to the contrary, this document proves that the administration was in fact intentionally and deliberately planning all along to separate families and create a crisis on the southern U.S. border.'>>>

https://medium.com/@SenJeffMerkley/merkley-reveals-secret-trump-administration-plan-to-create-border-crisis-f72a7c3de2bd?

SemiHalfling

(53 posts)
4. Just going over the words in my head
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:25 AM
Jan 2019

The association didn’t occur until this particular morning’s word salad, ‘powerful steel barrier’ seems to be one thesaurus check away from the Iron Curtain.

lark

(23,099 posts)
5. The steel is coming from Deripaska, the Russian who helped PUtin steal the election.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:31 AM
Jan 2019

That's why he can't cave, the repugs in Senate have already cleared this treason and now he has to make it happen or he's toast and he knows it. Russia will spill the beans otherwise, having grown tired of his cowardice in giving them what he promised so now he absolutely can't back down.

So, does he destroy the American government, especially judiciary and FBI to stop investigations into him or into Russia, or will the Senate Repugs finally wake up?

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Raven

(13,891 posts)
8. So much for Trump being a dreat deal maker. Nobody who knows
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:11 AM
Jan 2019

anything about negotiation would do this. In my view, he is a 5 year old having a tantrum in the supermarket who has thrown himself on the floor and is kicking his feet and wailing. My kid did that to me once and only once.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,340 posts)
10. You mis-spelled "dread". Trump is a "dread deal maker".
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:30 AM
Jan 2019

I dread whatever ideas spill from that baffled brain.

2naSalit

(86,609 posts)
11. Speaking of borders
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:33 AM
Jan 2019

Isn't this fuckwad's behavior bordering on illegal? Isn't there some law that he's violating by forcing the government to be inoperative?

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
14. With a overwhelming majority against his wall
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:18 PM
Jan 2019

And the rural area's and farmers getting hit the worst, every day, every day he and the gop allow this to continue to hurt the American people they'll lose more republicans in this government next election , almost assuring the Democrats will retake the Senate , and the Presidency again. This is a lose lose for trump now after the tariffs, losing health care for millions, the government shutdown because of his tantrum, and all the tax scam policies they passed, and he thinks people will vote for him or the gop again? They only thought the Mid Terms was bad for them.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
15. Okay, let's stop the flow of drugs.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 12:52 PM
Jan 2019

Tomorrow I ask for a wildcat strike to close all ports and airports.

These are where the drugs are coming in, so let's show the orange ass what a shutdown really looks like!

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