TRUMP claims he DIDN'T want to do a speech or go to the border ("that's a photo OP"))

[Centerleftfl]

What the hell kind of shit is this? THEY MADE HIM DO IT? He is right on one thing, it WAS pointless. Unless of course he made money on it!


Pointless’: Trump privately dismissed his own address strategy to news executives before his speech



SARAH K. BURRIS
08 JAN 2019 AT 22:04 ET



US President Donald Trump, seen in this file photo, urged Democrats on December 29, 2018 to "come over and make a deal on Border Security" and end the partial government shutdown. (AFP/File / Brendan Smialowski)

According to a New York Times report, President Donald Trump doesn’t support his own speech he made Tuesday evening.

Trump reportedly wanted to go over the heads of Congress and launch his own campaign for the wall. It was feared that Trump would declare a national emergency so that he has the freedom to do whatever he wants with the border wall.

“Privately, Mr. Trump dismissed his own new strategy as pointless,” the Times reported. “In an off-the-record lunch with television anchors hours before the address, he made clear in blunt terms that he was not inclined to give the speech or go to Texas, but was talked into it by advisers, according to two people briefed on the discussion who asked not to be identified sharing details.”

“It’s not going to change a damn thing, but I’m still doing it,” Trump said according to one person in the room.

The Times said that the scheduled trip to the border the president has planned this week is nothing more than a photo opportunity.

“‘But,’ he added, gesturing at his communications aides, Bill Shine, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, ‘these people behind you say it’s worth it,’” the Times quoted....



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/poi...utives-speech/

[anatta]

raw story?

“In an off-the-record lunch with television anchors hours before the address, he made clear in blunt terms that he was not inclined to give the speech or go to Texas, but was talked into it by advisers, according to two people briefed on the discussion who asked not to be identified sharing details.”

lol..Ok sure..funny how there is no other confirmation from these "who asked not to be identified" sources?

[evince]

yeap made money coming and going



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