Johnson marches in lockstep with the orange-skinned Führer. He agrees with Trump that our nation really needs that expensive, unnecessary, ineffective border wall, although he believes a declaration of emergency would be challenged in court and would prevent the wall from being built. Yeah, and?
Republican Senator Ron Johnson: 'Wall won't get built' if Trump declares emergency
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...c7KI?ocid=AMZN
In a CNN poll released today, only 37% approve of Trump's performance as President. I'm guessing every one of those respondents is a Republican. The percentage of people who disapprove of Trump's job performance is now 57%.
Trump's disapproval rating higher since shutdown began: poll
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...bDx8?ocid=AMZN
Trump rejects suggested short-term government shutdown fix
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...dpY1?ocid=AMZN
But keep on blaming those darned obstructionist Democrats for the shutdown that you imposed, Donnie boy!
CBN's Chris Cillizza debunkes the many lies Donald Trump told during his January 12 interview with Fox News. Some examples: "I'm a very honest person." (Trump has uttered 6,420 lies or misstatements since he's been in office.) "I haven't left the White House in months." (False.) "I'm asking for less money for the wall than other Presidents talked about." (No other Presidents ever asked for money for a wall.) "The FBI broke into Cohen's law firm." (False. They obtained a search warrant.) And of course Trump repeated his mantra that the Mueller investigation is a "total hoax" -- never mind all the criminal charges, guilty pleas, plea bargains and prison sentences.
The 35 most astounding lines from Donald Trump's interview with Jeanine Pirro
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/14/pol...rro/index.html
Because of Trump's partial shutdown of the government, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not getting paid -- and, contrary to what Trump claims, they do not agree with his "give-me-money-for-a-wall-or-I-will-keep-government-shut-down-forever" demand. To be able to buy food and make their house payments, many are seeking temporary jobs and many have started GoFundMe campaigns. Air traffic controllers even filed a lawsuit charging the federal government with violating the Fifth Amendment by denying them their pay without "due process" -- but today a federal judge ruled against them. This is Donald Trump's shutdown and Donald Trump owns it,
US District Judge Richard Leon denies request to pay air traffic controllers, other federal workers during shutdown
"It's hard not to empathize" with federal workers, the judge said, but the shutdown is a "political problem" that the judiciary cannot get involved in.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...orkers-n958971
"The GOP is showing serious signs of cracking. The Republican Party was never united in support of Donald Trump's wall in the first place. By the fall of last year, with elections looming, it was clear the GOP would not fund Trump's wall but Trump seemed to be the last to know," writes Noah Rothman, associate editor of Commentary magazine, in an essay for NBC News. And of course Trump continues to blame Democrats.
Trump's shutdown gamble now hinges on a wall many Republicans were never truly sold on
For two years, the GOP had many opportunities to fund Trump’s wall both in part or in whole and it declined on every occasion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...ver-ncna958426
Trump gave huge tax cuts to banks, big corporations and the wealthiest Americans. He tried to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. His trade wars and tariffs are hurting farmers and driving up costs for consumers. And if you still need one more bit of evidence that Trump does not care about American workers and the middle class, here it is:
Trump summons thousands back to work without pay as shutdown drags on
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...-on/ar-BBSihU6
In a letter in today's Los Angeles Times, David Medrano of Alhambra makes a logical, rational proposal. Unfortunately, we have an illogical, irrational President who will never consider it.
"Trump claims he wants to protect the safety of the American people and therefore needs $5.7 billion to start building a wall along our southern border. Since there is scant evidence of any real threat posed to Americans by illegal border crossings, perhaps Trump can turn his attention to a very real national emergency: the threat to our safety from mass shootings.
Since 1999, more than 500 Americans have died in mass shootings such as those in Parkland, Virginia Tech, Orlando, Isla Vista, Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School and Las Vegas. Perhaps Trump can address this crisis by exercising his 'emergency powers,' which would save many American lives at a cost far less than $5.7 billion."
Last month, Donald Trump -- who once claimed that he knows "more about ISIS than the generals do" -- announced plans to pull US troops out of Syria because, he said, ISIS is "badly defeated." He was either lying or just plain ignorant of the facts. Regardless, he was wrong.
4 Americans among 16 killed in Syria attack; ISIS claims responsibility
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/16/pol...ity/index.html
Trump was warned that ISIS was not defeated in Syria
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/16/pol...ing/index.html
Lindsey Graham says Trump's Syria statements emboldened ISIS
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/16/pol...ump/index.html
Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst and the author of United States Of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists, blames Donald Trump for the "confused and confusing state of US policy in Syria." But.....but.....Trump said he knows more about ISIS than the generals do and he told us ISIS was defeated. Golly gee, he must have been mistaken.
Trump's Syria morass
Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, Jan 16 2019
Today's suicide attack that killed four Americans, including two US soldiers, in Manbij, Syria, is a vivid reminder of the confused and confusing state of US policy in Syria, a confusion that has been engendered almost entirely by President Donald Trump. We don't know the circumstances of the attack in detail but it comes at an especially chaotic time.
In a phone conversation on December 14 with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump promised Erdogan that all American troops would leave Syria soon since ISIS, in Trump's view, was already defeated. Trump told Erdogan, "It's all yours. We are done." Five days later Trump posted a video to Twitter in which he said that the approximately 2,000 US troops that are in Syria "are all coming back now."
What was especially odd about this assertion was that Trump had repeatedly warned during his campaign that he wouldn't give America's enemies any heads up about his military plans, as the Obama administration had done when it had announced withdrawal dates for US forces from Afghanistan. Trump's abrupt shift in Syria policy precipitated the resignation of both US Defense Secretary James Mattis and Presidential envoy Brett McGurk.
Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton was dispatched to the Middle East to provide some kind of ex post facto cleanup for Trump's hasty decision on Syria, which hadn't been coordinated with the Pentagon or other parts of the US government or American allies such as Israel. Bolton muddied the waters further, saying that the US would withdraw from Syria only if ISIS was destroyed and the safety of America's Kurdish allies fighting ISIS was guaranteed.
Already the Pentagon is withdrawing some military equipment from Syria. At the same time, Trump has been warned by his own commanders that ISIS has not been entirely defeated in Syria. Will US forces stay in Syria to finish off ISIS? Will the US secure some kind of guarantee from the Turks that they won't attack its Kurdish allies in Syria? None of this is clear and for that we mostly have the impulsive President of the United States to blame, a leader who makes hasty policy decisions based on his gut and without consulting even his own National Security Council.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/opini...gen/index.html
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