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The 'wall' is now 'steel slats' and Trump has screwed his supporters
The Washington Examiner ^ | December 19, 2018 10:40 AM | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 12/19/2018 10:11:37 AM PST by BradtotheBone

Someone in the news media finally asked the White House an uncomfortable question — no, not Jim Acosta, whose only question is, “Are we fake news, Mr. President,” said with a daring stare — and it came from “Fox & Friends” of all places.

On President Trump’s favorite program Wednesday, co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Steve Doocy confronted White House adviser Kellyanne Conway with the depressing truth that Trump, employing his legendary cut-throat negotiating skills, had just embarrassed himself in trying to get what amounted to pennies in border wall funding.

“[P]eople who voted for him and want the wall, went to the polls to vote for that wall, they want to know how he’s going to do this and they want to know why he seems to be softening his stance this morning,” asked Earhardt.

Someone in the news media finally asked the White House an uncomfortable question — no, not Jim Acosta, whose only question is, “Are we fake news, Mr. President,” said with a daring stare — and it came from “Fox & Friends” of all places.

On President Trump’s favorite program Wednesday, co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Steve Doocy confronted White House adviser Kellyanne Conway with the depressing truth that Trump, employing his legendary cut-throat negotiating skills, had just embarrassed himself in trying to get what amounted to pennies in border wall funding.

“[P]eople who voted for him and want the wall, went to the polls to vote for that wall, they want to know how he’s going to do this and they want to know why he seems to be softening his stance this morning,” asked Earhardt.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: artofthedeal; bollards; bordersecurity; buildthewall; doubledouble; doubletrouble; thewall; trump; trusttheplan; wall
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Now Fox News is calling them out...
1 posted on 12/19/2018 10:11:37 AM PST by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

Et tu, Fox & Friends?


2 posted on 12/19/2018 10:12:56 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: BradtotheBone

There will be blood.


3 posted on 12/19/2018 10:13:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: BradtotheBone

WHEN YOU’RE PRETTY CERTAIN YOU CAN’T GET SOMETHING ONE WAY, YOU FIND A WAY TO DO IT ANOTHER WAY


4 posted on 12/19/2018 10:13:53 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Give it a rest guys. Far too much hyperventilate no going on here.


5 posted on 12/19/2018 10:14:11 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: BradtotheBone

Softening his stance? More like capitulating. Should have never said he would shut down the government because the wall was that important and then squeal when it came time.


6 posted on 12/19/2018 10:14:23 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: BradtotheBone
"Soda Machine News"

I put my buck in da machine and I want my pop NOW!!!!!

When are you people going to learn to wait for things, like adults do?    thinking face

7 posted on 12/19/2018 10:14:35 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: BradtotheBone

We were led to believe that he would put up a bigger fight. I realize he has no GOP support but he should have at least tried to do a shut down to maintain his credibility, which is now shot.


8 posted on 12/19/2018 10:15:08 AM PST by Starboard
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To: BradtotheBone

IBTNewNeverTrumperHysteria.


9 posted on 12/19/2018 10:15:16 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: BradtotheBone

We are just not gonna get the wall we were hoping for. I’ve been checking out of politics more and more. It’s friggin depressing and It’s just too nice outside to be depressed ....


10 posted on 12/19/2018 10:15:18 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: BradtotheBone

Important enough to say twice?


11 posted on 12/19/2018 10:15:32 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: kiryandil

We’ve waited for 32 years. It’s time this got done.


12 posted on 12/19/2018 10:15:37 AM PST by BradtotheBone (When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers, so they can let me down one last time.)
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To: BradtotheBone

If I remember correctly, the BORDER PATROL specified that they preferred STEEL SLATS.


13 posted on 12/19/2018 10:16:05 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: central_va

This could well be the tipping point.
Millions of Trump supporters walking away from him,
leaving Mueller, Schumer & Co. to finish him off.


14 posted on 12/19/2018 10:16:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BradtotheBone

Border Patrol has said from the beginning they prefer a see through type of wall. I don’t think anyone from Fox News will be patrolling the border.


15 posted on 12/19/2018 10:16:33 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: BradtotheBone
Bring me my shell box and my submachine gun
Because you can’t get over anything quite like this
Where the water is darker than the mirror of the sky
And Demis Roussos playing “Forever” on the waterslide
16 posted on 12/19/2018 10:17:05 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: BradtotheBone
Let's see how this plays out.

Trump was elected partially to build the wall, partially to drain the swamp, partially to disrupt WA DC.

We have seen now how entrenched the swamp really is.

There is a lot that a President should not do without Congressional authorization, and some stuff he can't do without Congressional authorization.

Congress would not deal with ObamaCare and so he gave up and moved on. Congress will not deal with immigration reform or “Dreamers” and so life moves on. Congress will not deal with budget reform. Congress will not authorize sufficient money for a wall along the Mexican border.....oh it did authorized such a wall in bipartisan legislation long ago, but that was just an illusion that no swamp dweller ever thought would actually happen.

The problem is not Trump so much as the people that “we” elect to the House and Senate and how they get corrupted by the politics of Washington DC.

17 posted on 12/19/2018 10:17:13 AM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: BradtotheBone
We must be tired... look at this video and see what he means vs what Fox or anyone else says he means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vToAiXCNto

As you can see there are and have indeed been 'steel slats' in the proposed designs... does that means it's ineffective? NO!

18 posted on 12/19/2018 10:17:23 AM PST by Frapster (Let's not get distracted!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Trump will never lose me. He is still a hero.


19 posted on 12/19/2018 10:17:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: BradtotheBone

This article makes great leftist propaganda.


20 posted on 12/19/2018 10:18:01 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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