This was done in a panic. The president made a very big bet on the program of being something that the Republican base would love and embrace and his allies would get behind him on and it's a bet he lost, he lost it badly.
Rick Wilson describes the executive order signed by President Trump as a reaction to losing support from Republican allies and a political defeat.
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This whiny bitch victimhood from Matt Gaetz, and Ken Buck and Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor cuckoo QAnon Greene and all these other people, it is the most pathetic example of special pleading I've ever seen.
This isn`t a conservative political party. They are a bunch of authoritarian kleptocrats.
These folks deserve this. And a few months ago, the Senate voted for it. But now they have decided to politicize it.
I spoke to two members of Congress today who told me that -- one of them said flat out, if I vote against it, I will never know when they'll kill my wife or my kids or me.
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