President Trump just held a lengthy meeting with leaders of Congress at the White House to discuss immigration, DACA, the wall, border security and funding the government. The amazing thing about the meeting is that most of it was televised live on the cable news channels. It was an amazing thing to watch.
The key point of the meeting was not that some great resolution was reached for the immigration problems; some progress towards resolution was made, but no deal was concluded. No, the key point of the meeting was that it demonstrated on live national TV that the nonsense spewed in Michael Wolff's book in which he claims that the President has declining mental abilities and is unable to focus on things for more than a few seconds has been shown to be untrue. Trump ran the meeting. Trump demonstrated his knowledge and responded to issues as they arose and for as long as they were being discussed. Trump also showed a mastery of the room; the senators and congressmen were deferential to Trump and deservedly so. This was a president of the United States, not some media created buffoon conjured up by a lying "reporter" in a book that even the reporter himself admits is filled with lies.
There was a second important point here too. The Democrats went on and on about how much they care about the Dreamers as the people affected by DACA are called. It seemed pretty clear that the Dems were more concerned about these illegal aliens than they are with poor American citizens. That probably won't play very well with a great many American voters. On the other side, Trump talked about dealing fairly with the DACA folks but not in a way that would harm the average American. The President said he would sign a bill that Congress passed on the subject. That will make it doubly hard for the Democrats to try to convince the nation that some harsh position by Trump is the reason why the DACA bill fails or the government shuts down. Watching Trump be eminently reasonable for an hour puts the lie to all the propaganda that the Dems and their media allies can pump out.
Trump even said that he would agree to a bill to cover the DACA folks with border security including the wall with comprehensive immigration reform to follow in a second package. That puts the question squarely to the Democrats: do they want to see DACA recipients deported because they won't accept better border security? If that is their ultimate position, it will be a big loser politically.
The key point of the meeting was not that some great resolution was reached for the immigration problems; some progress towards resolution was made, but no deal was concluded. No, the key point of the meeting was that it demonstrated on live national TV that the nonsense spewed in Michael Wolff's book in which he claims that the President has declining mental abilities and is unable to focus on things for more than a few seconds has been shown to be untrue. Trump ran the meeting. Trump demonstrated his knowledge and responded to issues as they arose and for as long as they were being discussed. Trump also showed a mastery of the room; the senators and congressmen were deferential to Trump and deservedly so. This was a president of the United States, not some media created buffoon conjured up by a lying "reporter" in a book that even the reporter himself admits is filled with lies.
There was a second important point here too. The Democrats went on and on about how much they care about the Dreamers as the people affected by DACA are called. It seemed pretty clear that the Dems were more concerned about these illegal aliens than they are with poor American citizens. That probably won't play very well with a great many American voters. On the other side, Trump talked about dealing fairly with the DACA folks but not in a way that would harm the average American. The President said he would sign a bill that Congress passed on the subject. That will make it doubly hard for the Democrats to try to convince the nation that some harsh position by Trump is the reason why the DACA bill fails or the government shuts down. Watching Trump be eminently reasonable for an hour puts the lie to all the propaganda that the Dems and their media allies can pump out.
Trump even said that he would agree to a bill to cover the DACA folks with border security including the wall with comprehensive immigration reform to follow in a second package. That puts the question squarely to the Democrats: do they want to see DACA recipients deported because they won't accept better border security? If that is their ultimate position, it will be a big loser politically.
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