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Trump lies of Democrats: "Almost all of them are breaking, saying walls are good, walls are good."
Trump is emphasizing the relative Republican unity on his bill, saying there were a mere two defections. True, but there were six who defected to vote for the Democratic bill.
Trump says that maybe Schumer and McConnell can work something out, but if they don't he has "a lot of alternatives." Also, this is a "virtual invasion" of illegal immigrants, and there is a big caravan coming.
Trump again says he has not left the White House except for "a beautiful evening in Iraq." He also went to Texas and New Orleans.
Trump says illegal immigrants "permeate" in a lot of places, "like Wisconsin."
For, I think, the first time, Trump admits that drugs come through legal ports of entry, but then claims, "The big trucks come through areas where you don't have a wall." Do not believe that is true.
Trump repeats his usual tale of women being tied up with their mouths taped by human traffickers and then driven over unwalled border areas. Six trafficking experts told me they have never spoken to a victim who had anything like this happen during their border crossing.
Trump says illegal immigration is a "compliment," since people are coming for the strong economy, but it has to stop.
Trump says he coulda gotten 25,000 people to attend his State of the Union somewhere else, but it would've been "disrespectful to the State of the Union." He says Pelosi's position on refusing to open the chamber until the shutdown is over is "reasonable."
Trump claims the Democratic bill probably got more votes than his because it included hurricane relief funding for "certain states." No. The Republican bill had $12.7 billion in hurricane and other-disaster relief funding. GOP defections weren't because of this.
This confused me too much to tweet it in real time: Trump suggested that unpaid federal workers are getting free groceries. "Local people know who they are, when they go for groceries and everything else...they will work along."
