Throughout the meeting, Trump said repeatedly that, yes, he would sign whatever they sent him...
...as long as it included border security with the wall and an end to chain migration.
He said it over and over right up to the end of the meeting. Border security, his wall and chain migration are off the table. When DiFi demanded a clean bill on DACA alone he flatly said no. No DACA without the wall. The guy with the Mexican accent sitting next to Feinstein tried the same thing “We should start with a clean DACA bill” he said and Trump came right back with “Not without the wall.”
Then, showing them who was in charge, he said “But I’m sure we can all come up with something I can sign” and called on someone at the opposite end of the table who allowed as how border security did need to be part of the deal. To which Trump added “With the wall”.
He said it so many times I don’t know how anyone could miss it unless they only watched clips on MSNBC and not the entire meeting.
He said it at least once without conditions. I don’t know how anyone could have missed that. He said he was leaving it to the people in Congress because he trusts them and if they send him a bill, he is going to sign it.
Now, we know theses swamp creatures well enough by now to know atht they can’t be trusted. They’ll send DACA alone, or with empty promises like we got in Simpson-Mazzoli. No appropriation will be made.
Remember Simpson-Mazzoli, which President Reagan said was his biggest mistake? it granted amnesty to the ten-3 million illegals in the country and included border security — but the border security never got funded. It turned out to be just amnesty, and now we have 11 million (officially, probably more) and we’re talking amnesty again. Why? So we can have 40-50 million illegals?
In teh Bush Administration, Congress authorized 10,000 new Boarder Patrol agents. Then the didn’t fund them. The only new hires were the replacements for those who retired or quit.
So why would anyone, least of all Trump, trust the swamp creatures in Congress? Yet he says he does and says he’ll sign what they send him.