Ambush: to cut to the chase: Trump declares publicly he'll sign a bipartisan DACA bill. On Thursday morning
Durbin and Graham call to say they have such a deal. Trump seems amenable. A meeting is set for noon. Then the Senators arrive there is a phalanx of hardliners - including Senators Cotton and Perdue, amnesiac DHS Secretary Nielsen, Chief of Staff Kelly, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy,, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
Trump is fired up, blasting the deal. Egged on by the pack Trump is soon talking shit, dreaming of a Viking migration, etc.
How does the fool back down now? - gwc
Ambush: Inside the profane White House meeting on immigration - WaPo
Durbin and Graham call to say they have such a deal. Trump seems amenable. A meeting is set for noon. Then the Senators arrive there is a phalanx of hardliners - including Senators Cotton and Perdue, amnesiac DHS Secretary Nielsen, Chief of Staff Kelly, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy,, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
Trump is fired up, blasting the deal. Egged on by the pack Trump is soon talking shit, dreaming of a Viking migration, etc.
How does the fool back down now? - gwc
Ambush: Inside the profane White House meeting on immigration - WaPo
When President Trump spoke by phone with Sen. Richard J. Durbin around 10:15 a.m. last Thursday, he expressed pleasure with Durbin’s outline of a bipartisan immigration pact and praised the high-ranking Illinois Democrat’s efforts, according to White House officials and congressional aides.
The president then asked if Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), his onetime foe turned ally, was on board, which Durbin affirmed. Trump invited the lawmakers to visit with him at noon, the people familiar with the call said.
But when they arrived at the Oval Office, the two senators were surprised to find that Trump was far from ready to finalize the agreement. He was “fired up” and surrounded by hard-line conservatives such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who seemed confident that the president was now aligned with them, according to one person with knowledge of the meeting.
Trump told the group he wasn’t interested in the terms of the bipartisan deal that Durbin and Graham had been putting together. And as he shrugged off suggestions from Durbin and others, the president called nations from Africa “shithole countries,” denigrated Haiti and grew angry. The meeting was short, tense and often dominated by loud cross-talk and swearing, according to Republicans and Democrats familiar with the meeting.
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