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Poor progressives, Trump's views on Amazon mirror those of Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren and Cory Booker. They're so confused, they don't know what to do. Fun to watch them squirm.
So, this morning, during his press conference the President said "'We're going to be guarding our border with the military'
Apparently, the President's announcement about "sending the military" came as a surprise to Jim Mattis and the President's national security staff. They had to sit down with him and explain that, no, he couldn't just make a command decision to divert the entire military to the border with tanks and guns ablazing. There are Federal laws about that sort of thing. He could, however, send National Guard troops in a support role for the Border Patrol, just as Obama and Bush did during their administrations.
So, the WH has had to clarify what the President meant yet again tonight. And, yep, what the President apparently *meant* to say was "I'm sending the National Guard" not "I'm sending the military to defend our borders."
In fairness, the National Guard is part of the Military. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one: maybe he just forgot to mention which branch he was deploying.
He did, however, stretch the truth about how much of a crisis this is, at least according to the Border Patrol's own numbers.
The White House said Tuesday night that President Trump planned to deploy the National Guard to the southern border.
While the president couched his idea as an urgent response to an onslaught at the nation’s southern border, the numbers do not point to a crisis. Last year, the number of illegal immigrants caught at the border was the lowest since 1971, said the United States Border Patrol.
After the president’s remarks, White House aides struggled for hours to decipher his intentions.
Late in the day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Mr. Trump had met with Jim Mattis, the secretary of defense, and members of the national security team to discuss his administration’s strategy.
That strategy, she said, included mobilizing the National Guard — though Ms. Sanders did not say how many troops would be sent or when.
POTUS is really showing just how nutty he is. Tax cut for the wealthy, spending like a drunk on a binge, not protecting the nation from cyber attacks, an infrastructure plan which has no way of moving forward, ripping us off every weekend to play golf.
Today he is lying to everyone about his trade war.
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