The border crisis is real. That's why Trump is blocking solutions
The irony of Donald Trump pressuring House Republicans to kill a border deal is that many of his voters once counted on him to stop the “deep state” from hurting America. Ever since the former president has been out of office, he and his cohorts have made that conspiracy theory a reality: an unauthorized network of individuals embedded in and around government redirecting power for their own purposes.
Throughout the 2020 general election, Trump referred to the migrant crisis as an “invasion.” In December, he said immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” Today, he’s bragging about potentially killing a bipartisan bill that would, among other things, give Biden and future presidents the authority to close the southern border. The proposed bill would also add 1,300 Border Patrol agents along with technology to detect smuggled fentanyl more efficiently.
Now Trump — the man who went to Washington to “drain the swamp” — doesn’t want the bill to become law. Its passage would hurt his campaign claim that President Biden is neglecting the border, a belief he’s counting on for votes in November. And he’s not ashamed that people know he is trying to kill the bill, telling supporters in Las Vegas on Saturday: “Please blame it on me. Please.” Putting himself ahead of the issues and the well-being of the nation.
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Of course, Trump was never the disinfectant he claimed to be. His time in the White House marked a new low for self-serving abuses of power, ultimately leading to an attempted coup — complete with a draft of an executive order to seize voting machines. But at least then when he was leading his party in the worst direction, he was an elected official.
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