Only Trump cultists are enabling Trump in his infantile wall fantasy. Other conservatives are seeing the situation in a much more realistic, pragmatic and rational manner.
"Joe: President Donald Trump Doesn't Know What It's Like To Miss A Paycheck | Morning Joe | MSNBC"
How the Border Wall Is Boxing Trump In
"Joe: President Donald Trump Doesn't Know What It's Like To Miss A Paycheck | Morning Joe | MSNBC"
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Now, Mr. Trump’s fixation with a border wall — the material embodiment of his keep-them-out immigration agenda — has run headlong into the new realities of divided government, pitting him against Democrats who reject the idea out of hand. The impasse is particularly remarkable given that even some immigration hard-liners do not regard the wall as their highest priority and fear that Mr. Trump’s preoccupation with it will prompt him to cut a deal that trades a relatively ineffectual measure for major concessions on immigration.
“I’ve always thought it created a danger that he would trade almost anything in order to get the wall — I think that’s still a potential danger,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that argues for less immigration. “I’m still worried about that now.”
That fear has been realized at times when Mr. Trump has explored a deal with Democrats on granting permanent legal status for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, known as Dreamers. The president has always walked away at the last moment from committing to preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, but on Friday, FAIR, an anti-immigration group, warned him again that it would be a mistake.
To many conservative activists who have pressed for decades for sharp reductions in both illegal and legal immigration — and some of the Republican lawmakers who are allied with them — a physical barrier on the border with Mexico is barely relevant, little more than a footnote to a long list of policy changes they believe are needed to fix a broken system.
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Chained to a Wall
NumbersUSA, another conservative group that presses for stricter immigration policies, circulated an article last month suggesting that Mr. Trump drop his wall demand in favor of a plan to mandate that all employers use E-Verify, an electronic system that checks immigration status for prospective employees.
The wall “has sucked political capital from the pursuit of other, and arguably better, means to deter illegal immigrants,” wrote Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute.
Yet Mr. Trump has tethered himself to the wall and shows no sign of letting go.
Any rational and adult president would listen to, and seriously consider, the positions that hard-line immigration people at the Center for Immigration Studies, that FAIR, and NumbersUSA are taking.
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Trump A.G. Pick Advocated Pardons By George H.W. Bush; Bashed Mueller Probe | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
"Joe: President Donald Trump Doesn't Know What It's Like To Miss A Paycheck | Morning Joe | MSNBC "
MSNBC Published on Jan 10, 2019
Rachel Maddow reports on the history of William Barr's work with George H.W. Bush who pardoned participants in the Iran-Contra scandal just as the investigation was reaching his doorstep, and surmises it's no coincidence he has come into Donald Trump's orbit at this point in time.
Cohen will testify Feb. 7 in front of Oversight Committee with new chairman Elijah Cummings. Lied to both Intelligence Committees about Trump Tower Moscow project in last year. Situation has changed since guilty plea and he starts three year prison term Mar. 6. Possible more testimony from Cohen before then. Much of ex-WH counsel don McGahn's some 30 hours of chat with Mueller's team apparently unbeknownst to Trump and others. Beefed up WH team in expectation of big battle over executive privilege. How much of Trump conversations with top aides will get to Congress and public? What will WH have to hand over. Will Trump have to testify? Nixon had to give up tapes and other evidence. May 5, 1987 Reagan struggled with questions re Iran-Contra scandal. Realer had accepted that the facts and evidence suggested his earlier statements that he had not traded arms for hostages was not true. During the investigation there was a big fight over executive privilege. have to hand over? Have to testify? A federal judge ruled Reagan had to give evidence and testimony. Ruling included statement that Reagan had to hand over 33 entries in his personal diary and to provide video-taped testimony in the Poindexter trial. Reagan lawyers filed in opposition invoking executive privilege. Nixon tried it in 1974 and failed. Within two weeks Reagan did what judge asked. Christmas Eve 1992, G.H.W Bush, on his way out of office of his one-term presidency, pardoned six in Iran-Contra scandal, including Casper Weinberger who was guilty of lying to Congress. History is littered with the failure of presidents to avoid giving evidence and/or testimony on the grounds of executive privilege. Next week confirmation hearings for William Barr for AG begin. Dep. AG Rosenstein, who oversees the Mueller investigation, has said he will resign and leave Justice if Barr is confirmed. HW Bush took the action of pardoning the Iran-Contra six on the advice of William Barr, who was AG at the time. Barr has bragged about his pardon role. Some were only in favor of pardoning Weinberger. Barr said pardon them all. Should that shutter-downer, pardon them all, man be confirmed as Trump's AG?
But his new pick to be the attorney general has a record of making similar comments, and despite some favorable comments from Democrats .. https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1070761999372611587 , those could pose a problem in his coming confirmation fight.
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n fact, in November 2017, Barr told the New York Times .. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/politics/trump-pressure-clinton-investigation.html .. that there was more basis to investigate Hillary Clinton for the Uranium One deal than there is to investigate Trump for potential collusion with Russia. He went so far as to say the Justice Department was wrong to give Clinton a pass.
"To the extent it is not pursuing these matters, the department is abdicating its responsibility,” he said.
"Joe: President Donald Trump Doesn't Know What It's Like To Miss A Paycheck | Morning Joe | MSNBC"
CNN Published on Jan 16, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Trump asking to move the day of the State of the Union address or deliver it in writing, citing security concerns from the ongoing government shutdown.
Remember the Republican controlled Senate passed a government spending bill which Trump said he wouldn't sign because it didn't contain funding for his wall. It would be cheaper for the president to make his State of Union address from the Oval Office. Pelosi says the shutdown is yours, do your address from your house, not from mine as long as your government shutdown continues. Trump is his failure to take the deal is causing the people and the economy to suffer each day his tantrum continues.
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Rep. Jeffries: 'Missing' McConnell Acts Like Trump 'Subsidiary' | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
MSNBC Published on Jan 16, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi plays hardball, telling Trump his State of the Union address must be rescheduled due to the Government shutdown, citing concerns over Capitol Hill security. The shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history, has severely impacted federal workers and their families across the country. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries joins Ari Melber after a meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, telling “The Beat” Democrats will not “allow the American people” to be “held hostage” by Trump’s “Presidential temper tantrum”.
Reopen the government and we can talk about our wall funding. Reopen the government before your shutdown gets us to to a contraction of economic growth.
Stephen Miller was writing SOTU to blame Democrats for shutdown — until Nancy Pelosi pulled the rug out: report... P - Trump: "I am proud to shut down the government" at the WH meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. -December 11, 2018 https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=146155243
President Donald Trump’s Historic Russia Denial Will Follow Him Forever | The Last Word | MSNBC
MSNBC Published on Jan 14, 2019
"I never worked for Russia" could become the "I am not a crook" moment of Trump's presidency. It comes amid new reports that Trump concealed notes about his private conversations with Putin and Mueller is investigating an event involving Devin Nunes and Michael Flynn. Lawrence discusses with Michael Isikoff, Ned Price and Andrew Weiss.
For the first time Nunes's name appears in reports of the Mueller investigation. Nixon, "I'm not a crook." Trump. "Mexico will pay for the wall. "Trump, "I never worked for Russia."
From video:
Mueller Probes an Event With Nunes, Flynn, and Foreign Officials at Trump’s D.C. Hotel Devin Nunes has been a pitbull for the president, growling at the prosecutors investigating Trumpworld. Now an event that Nunes himself attended is under Mueller’s microscope. Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng, Betsy Woodruff, Spencer Ackerman 01.14.19 8:02 PM ET [...] The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations. https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-probes-an-event-with-nunes-flynn-and-foreign-officials-at-trumps-dc-hotel
Barr's Record On Mass Incarceration Comes Under Scrutiny In Confirmation Hearing Miles Parks January 16, 20196:19 PM ET William Barr, President Trump's nominee to be attorney general, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Two portraits of William Barr emerged during the second day of his confirmation hearing to lead the Justice Department as President Trump's choice as attorney general. P - One was of a brilliant and moral man who oversaw the resolution of a hostage crisis at a federal prison without any casualties and another was of an early 1990s attorney general who held views on race and policing that now seem antiquated and unacceptable to many in law enforcement. https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/683009766/barrs-record-on-mass-incarceration-comes-under-scrutiny-in-confirmation-hearing
Another failed prediction for Team Trump on Mueller probe’s end By Steve Benen 08/30/18 12:41 PM It’s been four months since Rudy Giuliani joined Donald Trump’s legal defense team, and when the former mayor got to work, he was confident that he could help Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to its conclusion quite quickly. P - Giuliani told a CNN reporter he thought the whole mess could be wrapped up in “a couple of weeks.” http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/another-failed-prediction-team-trump-mueller-probes-end
HERE ARE 18 REASONS TRUMP COULD BE A RUSSIAN ASSET By Max Boot January 13 at 3:24 PM [...] — Trump was utterly supine in his meetings with Putin, principally in Hamburg and Helsinki. Even more suspicious, according to a Post article on Saturday, Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials. Several officials said they were never able to get a reliable readout of the president’s two-hour meeting in Helsinki.” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=146073625
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