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CNN's Philip Mudd Inadvertently Makes Case for Funding Border Wall
Newsbusters ^ | December 22, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 12/23/2018 3:35:21 AM PST by PJ-Comix

CNN commentator Philip Mudd is known for his extreme hostility towards President Donald Trump. Therefore his invective directed toward the President on CNN's The Situation Room on Friday was no big surprise. However, what was unusual was that Mudd actually made a great case to fund the border wall, not so much for border security but rather just to get a budget deal done and avoid a government shutdown. 

He couldn't believe that there couldn't be a successful negotiation to agree to an amount somewhere between the $1.6 billion offered and the $5 billion Trump requested. It is the art of the deal which is exactly what dealmaker Trump aspires to but which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been repeatedly rejecting so as not to give Trump any kind of win. 

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KEYWORDS: borderwall; chuckschumer
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Phil Mudd thought he was slamming Trump when in reality it was Chuck Schumer he was criticizing. Hey Phil! Who is it that is UNWILLING to negotiate?
1 posted on 12/23/2018 3:35:21 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

This isn’t about the money. $5 billion dollars is a rounding error to the Swamp.


2 posted on 12/23/2018 3:54:57 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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It’s not about money. It’s about Chuck Schumer’s ego not wanting to give Trump any kind of win on the border wall even if it means shutting down the government.


3 posted on 12/23/2018 4:02:44 AM PST by PJ-Comix (I am eating my way to weight loss. Pass the lox!)
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To: Moonman62

This is not about the money.

It is about destroying America.


4 posted on 12/23/2018 4:16:27 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (XY)
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To: PJ-Comix

Mudd appears in my view as an angry alcoholic


5 posted on 12/23/2018 4:40:02 AM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: PJ-Comix

lots of people are going to Schumer’s FB page and posting “Build the wall” as well as other appropriate comments.


6 posted on 12/23/2018 4:42:08 AM PST by DOC44
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To: Moonman62

The Rats love open borders because every illiterate non-English-speaking low-IQ illegal alien is not only a future permanent Rat voter (and their offspring) but they are perpetual govt jobs programs.

Every one of them needs:
Medical help
Teachers
Housing assistance
Welfare/EBT
Jailors etc etc etc

Every illegal alien is a cornucopia of required govt assistance.


7 posted on 12/23/2018 4:47:32 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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The question for all of them is, “Did the Great Wall of China work?”, Do Israel’s walls (which Congress paid for) work?”.

But that’s past history.

Getting the Democrats and open-borders Republicans to ADMIT that ending white America is their main goal will not get the wall built. Even IF, which I doubt, exposing them for what they are got us a new Congress in 2020, it will be too late.

We need to refocus on things that will work. Ending welfare, food, and schools for illegals can be accomplished. Imprisoning employers of illegals will work, and could actually attract some Democrats.

Building a wall will require a military coup, with the arrest of Congress and the suspension of Habeas Corpus, and if Mattis couldn’t work with President Trump, I doubt a military coup, even if attempted, could succeed.


8 posted on 12/23/2018 5:02:08 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Travis McGee

Every one of them (On average) has more children than white Americans.

The future belongs to the fertile.


9 posted on 12/23/2018 5:03:21 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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We must stop undocumented democrats from entering the country.


10 posted on 12/23/2018 5:24:40 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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Trump should veto Pelosis bill in January. If he can make it stick then he should announce that the number is no longer $5 billion but rather $25 billion. We aren’t doing this again next year.


11 posted on 12/23/2018 5:25:04 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Jim Noble

Demography is destiny.


12 posted on 12/23/2018 5:28:18 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Jim Noble

President Tromps WINNING message should be that the democrat’s want drug smuggling, human trafficing, and massive money spent on ILLEGAL aliens.


13 posted on 12/23/2018 5:44:46 AM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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Trump should start using the "flip-flop" mantra on the border wall against Schumer and the democRATS.

Because they were FOR funding and building 700 miles of the border wall just a few years ago.

The democRATS are able to get away with this scam because they have the compliant media to cover their tracks.

Trump needs to expose this "flip-flop" and tweet it into the minds of the American people.

14 posted on 12/23/2018 6:07:02 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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Is Joe Manchin against the wall?


15 posted on 12/23/2018 6:10:00 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: HotHunt

Totally agree with you on the flip-flop strategy


16 posted on 12/23/2018 6:17:19 AM PST by 11th_VA ("When passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy." - Susan Collins)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“This is not about the money.It is about destroying America.”

I think that the statement about this is about destroying America is very very accurate.


17 posted on 12/23/2018 6:18:30 AM PST by kagnew (\)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“This is not about the money.It is about destroying America.”

I think that the statement about this is about destroying America is very very accurate.


18 posted on 12/23/2018 6:18:30 AM PST by kagnew (\)
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To: Travis McGee

I guess one could say the illegals are Schumer’s Great Society.


19 posted on 12/23/2018 6:26:45 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Good Catch!


20 posted on 12/23/2018 6:31:15 AM PST by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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