Posted on 01/09/2018 6:09:32 PM PST by Kaslin
President Donald Trump has been besieged by allegations, rather ludicrous ones, that he’s somehow unstable and mentally unfit to be president. Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White, has been a public relations nightmare, despite multiple media figures and officials calling out its inaccuracies. Well, what happened today dispelled all of that. Cortney wrote it up earlier today. Trump held a bipartisan meeting with Democrats and Republicans on the subject of immigration. There was agreement that something had to be done for the DACA recipients, everyone was for border security, and there might be something on chain migration (via NYT):
President Trump on Tuesday appeared to endorse a sweeping immigration deal that would eventually grant millions of undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship, saying he would be willing to “take the heat” politically for an approach that many of his hard-line supporters have long viewed as unacceptable.
The president made the remarks during an extended meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats who are weighing a shorter-term agreement that would extend legal status for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Mr. Trump has said such a deal must be accompanied by new money for a border wall and measures to limit immigrants from bringing family members into the country in the future, conditions he repeated during the meeting on Tuesday.
[…]
Seated with members of both parties during a meeting at the White House to discuss a narrower immigration agreement, the president said there was room for a compromise on DACA.
“We have something in common,” Mr. Trump said of Democrats. "We’d like to see this get done.”
But the president said he would insist on strict new immigration limits as part of any such measure, calling it a “bill of love.” Laying out conditions that many Democrats view as nonstarters, Mr. Trump said the legislation must fortify the nation’s borders; end “chain migration,” a term used by immigration critics to refer to immigrants’ ability to bring members of their extended family to the United States after gaining their own legal status; and cancel the diversity visa lottery program.
Watch President Trump and congressional leaders debate immigration policy pic.twitter.com/QSnhJmhfnF— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) January 9, 2018
We’ll see. Either way it was great spin for the president, who Democrats have tried to cast as mentally insane; he’s not. The extended media access was hailed as an unprecedented window into deal making by the media, though some had much more measured responses.
That was great @realDonaldTrump. You should do it again in the future.— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 9, 2018
I can never remember seeing a president convene a discussion of an issue with this many congressional voices and this many viewpoints being discussed publicly. Pretty remarkable day at the White House.— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 9, 2018
Trump smart for opening immigration discussion to press. Public gets to see deal making POTUS at his best.— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) January 9, 2018
Even CNN praised the extended pool spray, with Dana Bash saying that this meeting probably wouldn’t have gone any different if the cameras weren’t there, citing two Republicans at the meeting who told her they had no idea the cameras would stick around that long. She added that this is what people who voted for Trump hoped his presidency would look like, The Donald “in command.”
Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg added that given the allegations in the book, Trump needed to meet with Democrats and an image improvement and this meeting satisfied those two goals.
Bash’s CNN colleague John King said what we saw today was a very engaged president, one who was putting the pressure on both parties regarding their talking points on this issue, while saying he’s open to comprehensive immigration reform. It’s something that this town hasn’t seen in a while.
The issue has reached a level of criticality, as a government shutdown looms in the absence of a deal on immigration.
CNN’s Dana Bash On POTUS’s Bipartisan Meeting With Congress: He Was “In Command”
Hope you are right because if DACA passes that’s a million more rat votes.
The DACA Lovefest At The White House
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 1/10/18
It was great to see President Trump at the top of his game yesterday; completely in charge as he stage-managed a White House meeting with congressional leaders. The often-recalcitrant Republicans came across as the President’s docile supporters and the Democrats looked completely flummoxed by an in-command Donald Trump.
The only bad thing about the meeting – and make no mistake it is very bad – was that the whole meeting was Trump DACAabout how to grant amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens that Obama attempted to legalize through his unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
We tend to agree with author and conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who, in a series of tweets and interviews, denounced President Trump’s apparent willingness to make a deal to allow so-called DREAMers to remain in the country.
Coulter called out Trump for his squishy language about the wall and for expressing a willingness to work with Democrats on DACA.
Three of Coulter’s tweets nailed our take:
“But don’t worry! There will be “border security”! (Political euphemism for: You’re not getting wall.)”
And:
“This DACA lovefest confirms a main thesis of Michael Wolff’s book: When Bannon left. liberal Dems Jared, Ivanka, Cohn & Goldman Sachs took over.”
And:
“Nothing Michael Wolff could say about @realDonaldTrump has hurt him as much as the DACA lovefest right now.”
But there’s another thing that no one is talking about as it relates to allowing the DACA illegal aliens to remain in the United States; chain migration.
If the DACA population is allowed to remain and eventually obtain citizenship, under current chain migration rules their parents – the ones who broke our laws and brought them here – would be entitled to legal entry, a green card and eventual citizenship.
So, trading DACA for building some piece of the wall is not a good deal for America’s hardworking citizens who have had to compete for jobs, education, housing etc. with the DACA population and their illegal alien parents.
Principled limited government constitutional conservative Rep. Steve King (IA-4) warned President Trump and congressional Republicans on Sunday not to make a deal with Democrats on the DACA population, saying any agreement would result in compromising the rule of law.
“Congress and President Trump cannot legalize DACAs without sacrificing the Rule of Law and broadcasting a call to come to America to be here for the next amnesty. No matter the ‘deal’ the Rule of Law would fall!” King tweeted according to reporting by Julia Manchester of The Hill.
Ann Coulter and Steve King are right.
As we said in our column “No Mr. President We Don’t ‘Hope’ To Work Out A Deal With Democrats,” what all of these pleas for legislation to grant blanket amnesty to 800,000 or more illegal aliens have in common is a complete contempt for the American worker, their quality of life and future prospects.
Moreover, the real goal of this effort is not to merely grant some humanitarian-motivated relief to current DACA beneficiaries, it is to advance the ultimate goal of changing the United States into an open borders globalist econometric society stripped of any of the of the trappings of nationhood or American exceptionalism.
The DACA fight isn’t about humanitarian relief for some unknown universe of illegal aliens, it is about preserving the promises made to American citizens in the preamble to the Constitution. Make no mistake, this is one of the battles of our times, because the fight against any bill that grants blanket amnesty to the current DACA recipients is an inflection point in the battle to preserve American sovereignty and nationhood, and in this battle the billionaires are almost all on the other side.
Was Trump being a little facetious when he said (paraphrasing) “I am sure no one here is against border security?”
Was that a trap? He must know the answer is “No, we don’t actually care”.
Joe Arpaio is already 85, 86 before the election.
Yeah, the guy needs to be enjoying his retirement, sitting on his porch rocker, with a rifle across his lap, taking out prairie dogs and ground squirrels when they pop up out of their holes.
Dacca in some form is going to land on Trump desk...that’s a foregone conclusion...
He will sign it..
I don’t like it, but that’s reality...
As long as we get a fully funded wall and a stop to the lottery and chain migration
I will call it a win...
Just watched the whole thing on youtube.
Great meeting. Sure wish Mario Díaz-Balart would have kept his mouth shut. 42:50
Is Donald the only one with a sense of humor? Everyone else EVERYONE looked so depressed sitting around that table. i swear... Steny Hoyer looked like he was about to cry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMTgbX-MPg
“Trump simply stated that the wall can be built for less, and then added insult to injury and told the room that it won’t take 7 years to build it - he wants it done in one year.”
excellent! I missed that part of the meeting. A wall built quickly is paramount
This was the greatest thing I have seen from my Federal Government in years.
We need more of these meetings in the open and on camera.
Being on camera and with back and forth if all you have as a politician is “Talking points” after 10 minutes of a meeting like this you are shown for what you are. A phony fake.
Thank You Mr President!
Appears you have given up and are ready to admit another million rat voters that have committed crimes against US citizens. I haven’t.
Lol...it doesn’t matter what I think, the reality is the GOP, the Dems, and even Trump all three want to find a way to get Daaco out into the light.
I guess I was lit up early since I have been aware of DACA since the Kenyan Marxist was looting the treasury.
Ha! I didn't know that. Hopefully that will cut into Wolff's book sales big time.
Did you see this?
'Fire and Fury' a surprise bestseller (the World War II book that is)
:-D
I hadn’t read that article, but I heard about it. Pretty funny.
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