Posted on 02/06/2024 12:41:30 PM PST by Red Badger
President Joe Biden claimed during a White House press conference this week that if Congressional Republicans do not pass his highly controversial border bill, former President Donald Trump will be “the only reason the border is not secure.”
Biden made the remarks after setting numerous records during his presidency for the historic number of illegal aliens that have stormed through the southern border.
Biden, who repeatedly stated throughout his first three years in office that the border was secure and that there was no crisis, has now changed his views on the issue as polling ahead of the November elections shows that the overwhelming majority of the country, approximately 70%, disapproves of the way that he has handled the border and 61% blame him for the border crisis.
House Republicans passed a border security bill some 270 days ago, the Secure the Border Act, which has been sitting on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s desk ever since.
Seeking to deflect blame for the crisis, Biden said on Tuesday that Trump controls the Republicans in Congress and that if they do not pass the border bill, Trump will own the border crisis, even though Biden could declare a national emergency and shut down the border on his own.
“If the bill fails, I want to be absolutely clear about something, the American people are going to know why it failed,” he said. “I’ll be taking this issue to the country. And the voters are going to know that … just at the moment we’re going to secure the border and fund these other programs, Trump and the MAGA Republicans said, ‘no’, because they’re afraid of Donald Trump.”
“Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends,” Biden continued. “It’s time for Republicans in the Congress to show a little courage, to show a little spine, to make it clear to the American people that you work for them, not for anyone else.”
Make America Great Again
Trump ‘24
A small man who leads small people.
I’d love to tell Biden to his face exactly what I think of him
Even dr pepper jill isnt buying that
Joe Biden has been a pathological liar for how long now?
The plan is to stick Republicans with the blame. The dems passed the border bill in the senate knowing it was unacceptable to the repubs. Then they can grandstand and point fingers at the right for “obstructing progress”.
CC
I bet Biden’s old friend from Germany Francois Mitterrand could help Joe with the border
81 million years.....................
Blaming Trump is so 1984.
You watch, the msm will be running with that like Josef Goebbels.
He’s pissing on America’s leg and telling them it’s raining.
We’ll see just how high the voters’ tolerance for cynical, hypocritical mendacity really is.
Make America American Again.........................
Three and a half years into his term, Biden has decided that nothing is his fault.
Oh, back when Nancy Pelosi graduated from high school 🏫
I know the far left, media, and paid-for bots will parrot that narrative. However, even left-leaning independents have to realize that such a statement is full of bee-ess. For months, we have heard that the border is secure and anyone that says otherwise is a far right-wing conspiracy theorist.
The left fought Trump on the border issue from the first day of his Presidency and even went to court to stop him from implementing any actions to stop the illegal aliens from crossing. The left and establishment right even went to court to stop him from building the border wall. Even now, the Biden administration is fighting Texas over their actions to stop the invasion of their state.
So, which voters will believe this new narrative? Does anyone think the black voters in Chicago who have said democrats can “forget their vote in November” will believe it?
This is a bold strategy. Let’s see how it will work.
MAGAGA: Make American Great and Glorious Again (he said that on a few occasions, I’m surprised he didn’t update)
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