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Trump couldn’t stand the fact that Democrats were all over his television screen, so he held a fake press conference where he didn’t take any questions.
Trump said via the White House transcript as provided to PoliticusUSA:
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thank you.
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I just want to start off by congratulating Nancy Pelosi on being elected Speaker of the House. It’s a very, very great achievement, and hopefully we’re going to work together and we’re going to get lots of things done, like infrastructure and so much more. I know they want to do that very badly, and so do I. So, hopefully, we’re going to have a lot of things that we can get done together. And I think it’s actually going to work out. I think it’ll be a little bit different than a lot of people are thinking. So I congratulate Nancy. Tremendous, tremendous achievement.
And I just wanted to explain the folks that I’m with (inaudible) — people I’ve known very well over the last two years; people that have been extremely supportive of what we’re doing on the border. They’re tough. They’re smart. They think. They love our country. They have every quality.
And I’ll tell you what: I really know them well, and they have the kind of qualities that we need in our country. And they’ve done a fantastic job at the border. It’s ICE and it’s Border Patrol.
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And a man who’s really become a friend, in a sense — Brandon. I will say this: Brandon Judd has been a stalwart in terms of justice for people, in terms of fairness, and in terms of the toughness you need. You have some pretty tough situations. It doesn’t get much tougher. So I just want to thank Brandon and all of the folks.
I’m going to have them introduce themselves right now and also say a few words about the wall, about — you can call it a barrier. You can call it whatever you want. But essentially, we need protection in our country. We’re going to make it good. The people of our country want it. I have never had so much support, as I have in the last week, over my stance for border security, for border control and for, frankly, the wall or the barrier. I have never had anything like it in terms of calls coming in, in terms of people writing in and tweeting, and doing whatever they have to do. I have never had this much support. And we’ve done some things that, as you know, have been very popular.
So I’m going to ask Brandon Judd to just step forward and say a few words. This group has apprehended, last year, 17,000 criminals trying to get across the border. Seventeen thousand. And that’s one category. There are plenty of others. The other thing that has been so incredible is what they’ve done in terms of drugs and stopping drugs. And with that — and with everything else — plenty, unfortunately, come through our southern border.
Trump Tried To Hijack The Democrats’ Day
The White House scheduled this last minute briefing and let reporters believe that Trump might take some questions from the press, but as usual with this administration, they suckered the press into the room and then pulled another publicity stunt. If Trump really wanted to get headlines, he could have answered questions from reporters, but Trump afraid to answer serious questions from objective journalists.
The president was upset because Democrats were getting all of the attention, so he set up a fake press conference.
It didn’t work, as the Trump show has been replaced with the stone cold reality that Democrats have arrived to check this president.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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