Posted on 09/14/2017 1:53:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The House GOP's staunchest opponent of illegal immigration said President Trump is now at risk of losing his base of supporters after supposedly cutting a deal to legalize more than 800,000 young people who arrived in the United States illegally as children.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said he stands by a Wednesday night tweet that proclaimed Trump's base "is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair," after he dined with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
The two Democrats left the White House proclaiming they had reached a deal with Trump on the so-called Dreamers that would legalize them and even provide a pathway to citizenship, otherwise known as "amnesty" to opponents like King.
"If they see amnesty coming out of the White House, that is the one thing that will crack his base," King said Thursday. "They are loyal Trump supporters but the most important plank in that platform is the rule of law. If that is blown up here in their negotiations, whether it is his intention or not, they are not going to have a leg to stand on when they press others to defend our president."
Democrats say Trump agreed to deal to legalize the Dreamers and Pelosi added later that Trump supports an eventual "earned path" to citizenship for those eligible for the program.....
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In his Dreamers....
Yes, Really.
Not as long as the alternatives are what they are!
BS
If Trump signs DACA, I’m done.
BS. Lets not start this again as the story has been talked about ad nauseum and debunked.
The uniparty and its minions ate trying to gin up a li’l game if lets-you-and-him-fight.
I gently suggest we not oblige, and keep our powder dry until we have something concrete warranting objection.
Dump him over the deal. Except........there is no deal.
But all the idiots will scream the sky is falling.
You just let me know when to panic and jump ship, King. I am counting on your stellar leadership and record to guide me! </sarc>
are....of....
That says it all. The GOP has gone over to the other side and this guy is really out to lunch. THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!
Yeah sure. There’s crazy Hillary and Bernie who are going to run again in 2020? ... Nutty Nan & Chucky didn’t get a deal.
Such BULLCHIT!!!!
King used the word "if".
Nope. Trump has tons of unused goodwill to start, but on this particular deal, legalizing Dreamers is a win for us. It takes away the Dem’s poster children for “comprehensive immigration reform”.
Do you realize how often Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and other Republican presidents dined with the opposition and made deals with them?
He is already hearing it from his base on FB and Twitter.
He has been warned. No DACA, no amnesty....or we will be saying hello to President Kamala Harris in 2020
We need to start thinking about how to turn a negative into a positive.
Bull$#*+! There won’t be another black president for at least a generation or two. Write that down.
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