Child Kidnapper Donald Trump Wants to Take the Government Hostage, Too [W:47]

Rogue Valley · Jun 20, 2018

Child Kidnapper Donald Trump Wants to Take the Government Hostage, Too

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Trump could be screaming about ... basically anything

6/19/18
As the Trump administration continues to double down on its policy of separating parents from their children at the border and placing said children in cages, the president and his attorney general, who ordered the strategy in April, have told traumatized parents, the outraged public, and factions of Congress that there’s one surefire way to put a stop to this mess: comply with their ransom demand. On Monday, Jeff Sessions told the National Sheriffs’ Association, “If we build the wall, if we pass legislation to end the lawlessness, we won’t face these terrible choices,” echoing a report from Axios that Trump views the breaking up of families “as leverage for a border wall.” But because the president of the United States doesn’t understand how the government works, he and his bloodthirsty Chihuahua Stephen Miller will not be satisfied by mere congressional approval of and partial funding for a pointless, ineffective border wall. No—for Trump to even think about ending a policy that will undoubtedly leave thousands of children scarred for life—something that’s fully in his power to do—he wants the full $25 billion, and he wants it now. And what’s President Mc-Tweets-a-Lot going to do if he doesn’t get the cash A.S.A.P.? According to Politico, Trump said during the meeting that if Congress doesn’t essentially fill a bunch of trash bags with unmarked twenties and deliver them to the White House, he’ll shut down the government in September—a mere two months before midterms.

Never mind the fact that the $1.6 billion figure came from his own Office of Management and Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, who requested it from Congress earlier this year. Or the fact that Democrats actually offered to give him the $25 billion in funding in exchange for granting the 1.8 million undocumented immigrants whose fates are tied to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program a path to citizenship. Those facts, as usual, are lost on Big Orange. “Thousands of children are being forcibly removed from their parents by our government. There is no other way to say it, this is not who we are and it must end now,” Thomas Donahue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Business Roundtable, which represents top U.S. chief executive officers, said in a statement that the current “practice is cruel and contrary to American values.” Even renowned cyborg Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook that the government needs “to stop this policy right now,” and told readers to donate to organizations “doing great work helping families at the U.S. border get legal advice and translation services, as well as documenting what is happening on the ground.”

As Trump, Sessions, and Nielsen have all alluded to, their policy of kidnapping the children of Latin American families seeking asylum in the US is at core a policy of blackmail. Trump wants all of the funding ($25 billion) for his white-elephant Wall right now and he will sacrifice children to obtain all of that funding. If this inhumane ploy fails, Trump next threatens to shut down the entire government in September (when the current funding bill expires) until he gets what he demands. As with kidnapping children, shutting down the US government will be entirely on Trump ... Congressional Republicans won't go along with such poison-pill-extortion so close to the midterm elections. It should be obvious to all by now that Donald Trump is a common thug.

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PirateMk1 · Jun 20, 2018