- Oct 20, 2022
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Perhaps one of our resident Trump supporters could explain why Trump and his supporters are trying to block the Congressional Border Bill (which has cross party support), including blocking an urgent $61b funding package for Ukraine which is part of the Bill:
It looks like pure vainglorious electioneering from Trump and like every other issue, all he cares about is getting back into power, even if it means blocking a bill that will legislate for tougher border controls (which inter alia gives presidential powers to immediately close the border once crossings reach 5,000) in order that he can, as part of his election campaign, continue to attack Biden on ’doing nothing about the border issue’.
He is back to peddling falsehoods and racist comments about ‘millions and millions’ of Mexicans crossing the border and scaremongering the electorate into believing America is being ‘invaded’ - a term widely acknowledged as a deliberate term used to pave the way to justify an armed response to stop migrants from crossing.
Romney: ‘Appalling’ Trump wants to kill border bill so he can ‘blame Biden’
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday took aim at former President Trump for pushing Republican lawmakers to oppose a border deal so that he could use the issue to campaign against President Biden …
thehill.com
It looks like pure vainglorious electioneering from Trump and like every other issue, all he cares about is getting back into power, even if it means blocking a bill that will legislate for tougher border controls (which inter alia gives presidential powers to immediately close the border once crossings reach 5,000) in order that he can, as part of his election campaign, continue to attack Biden on ’doing nothing about the border issue’.
He is back to peddling falsehoods and racist comments about ‘millions and millions’ of Mexicans crossing the border and scaremongering the electorate into believing America is being ‘invaded’ - a term widely acknowledged as a deliberate term used to pave the way to justify an armed response to stop migrants from crossing.
Trump ties himself in knots on US-Mexico border in brazen political move
Mr Trump never completely stopped crossings along the US-Mexico border despite his harsh anti-immigrant policies
www.independent.co.uk