it never left Moscow.

.. WHERE'S THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION?..

So I been sitting back and reading this thread on occasion. Here are my two cents worth.....

Majority of Americans are against a wall ................

http://www.pollingreport.com/trump_ad.htm
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Do you think Donald Trump should or should not declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the border with Mexico?
White--college graduate
Should 29%
Should not 69%
White--not college grad
Should 45%
Should not 51%
(CNN, 1/30-2/2)


Do you think Donald Trump should or should not declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the border with Mexico?
Dem.
Should 3%
Should not 96%
Ind.
Should 34%
Should not 63%
Rep.
Should 64%
Should not 31%
(CNN, 1/30-2/2/19)


Do you think Donald Trump should or should not declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the border with Mexico?
ALL
Should 31%
Should not 66%
White
Should 40%
Should not 57%
Nonwhite
Should 16%
Should not 81%
(CNN, 1/30-2/2)


Do you think Donald Trump should or should not declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the border with Mexico?
ALL
Should 31%
Should not 66%
Women
Should 24%
Should not 73%
Men
Should 39%
Should not 58%
(CNN Poll 1/30 - 2/2)



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/14/declaring-national-emergency-build-border-wall-is-out-step-with-history-unpopular/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fd3fe18d73b6


https://www.salon.com/2019/02/04/donald-trumps-border-wall-is-unpopular-with-a-majority-of-american-voters-new-gallup-poll-finds/


https://news.gallup.com/poll/246455/solid-majority-opposes-new-construction-border-wall.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=LEAD&g_campaign=item_&g_content=Solid%2520Majority%2520Still%2520Opposes%2520New%2520Construction%2520on%2520Border%2520Wall

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Regarding National Emergency to get wall .....

TRUMP: "And a big majority of the big drugs, the big drug loads don’t go through ports of entry. They can’t go through ports of entry. You can’t take big loads because you have people, you have some very capable people, the border patrol, law enforcement looking"

False: DEA and DHS have already stated multiple times that the majority of drugs come through border crossings hidden in cars or in the cargo of tractor trailers. Other points of entry are cargo containers in seaports.

TRUMP: ... I went through Congress, I made a deal. I got almost $1.4 billion when I wasn't supposed to get $1 -- not $1. He's not going to get $1. Well, I got $1.4 billion, but I'm not happy with it.

From what I heard Democrats say on the news Trump wouldn't get any money for his wall and the nearly 1.4B is not for the wall. It is for replacing / repairing existing fence, equipment and tech for Border Patrol and improving ports of entry.

TRUMP: I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster. And I don't have to do it for the election; I've already done a lot of wall for the election 2020.

If he didn't NEED to do it then it's not an emergency. Wanting to do it faster is a personal desire to fulfill a campaign promise and circumvent Congress and the Constitution. As to the part about having done a lot of wall ...0 wall...that's ZERO new wall has been constructed thus far. Only replacement/repair of existing fence.


TRUMP: And right now, China is paying us billions of dollars a year in tariffs and I haven't even started.

Tariffs are paid by the importer not the expoerter. Tariffs are a border-tax on the buyer, not the seller; they make it more expensive for the buyer to import a good into the country. So all the money going into government coffers ..... comes from Americans not the Chinese or any other country being tariffed.


TRUMP: And, by the way, the USMCA from Mexico -- that's United States, Mexico, Canada -- that's where the money's coming from, not directly, but indirectly, for the wall. And nobody wants to talk about that. Because we're saving billions and billions of dollars a year, if Congress approves that deal.

But the USMCA, which has yet to be ratified by Congress, doesn’t differ from NAFTA in any way that would result in a substantial revenue increase. As the New York Times pointed out last month, the new provisions added deal mostly with automobile manufacturing, intellectual property rights and access to Canadian dairy, which Trump has tweeted about at length. “It’s much harder to connect actual provisions of the USMCA to cash for the wall, since they don’t put money in the coffers of the Treasury,”

http://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/just-clear-mexico-no-way-202327439.html


TRUMP: Take a look at our federal prison population, see how many of them percentage wise are illegal aliens, just see.

This is misleading. Since being an illegal is of itself a violation of Federal law it is expected that they would held in federal prisons. However when looking at the total incarcerated in the United States it is a miniscule percentage.

The United States holds the highest incarceration rate in the world. In the United States, 743 of every 100,000 people is incarcerated.
http://www.notguiltynj.com/how-many-americans-have-been-incarcerated/

This works out to 2,399,890 incarcerated.

Of the 45,493 foreign-born inmates in the federal prison system made up of 188,658 inmates, the Justice Department said 3,939 are U.S. citizens.
According to the agency data, immigration orders have been issued for 54.2 percent — about 22,541 — of the remaining 41,554 incarcerated immigrants. Another 33.4 percent, about 13,886 inmates, are under investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible removal.
The Justice Department said about 12.3 percent — or 5,101 — of the illegal immigrants behind bars are still waiting adjudication and 26 have been granted relief because they risk persecution or serious harm if they are deported.
http://thehill.com/latino/331619-doj-releases-data-on-incarceration-rates-of-illegal-immigrants

TRUMP:I get my numbers from a lot of sources, like Homeland Security primarily, and the numbers that I have from Homeland Security are a disaster.

Again these numbers are only of those held in Federal prisons.

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So Nixon, a Republican, faced impeachment for the Watergate break-in but resigned first.

Clinton, a Democrat, faced impeachment hearings for lying about having sex with Lewinsky. Cleared. (What married man will openly admit to having sex outside of his marriage?)

Trump has cozied up to nations deemed enemy states by his own Intelligence community, regularly lies to the American public about things that affect the nation, uses alternate facts (anyone else doing that is just plain lying) and distortions. Regularly uses derogatory terms, language towards people, other nations................... all that is acceptable?????

Let us remember that in October of 2013 Obama shut the government down for 16 days to force Obamacare.

It's all smoke and mirrors..it has always been nothing more than misdirection..

California 'definitely and imminently' suing over Trump emergency declaration, state AG says

"California's Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Sunday that he will "definitely and imminently" file a lawsuit against the Trump administration to contest the declaration of a national emergency at the southern border".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/17/national-emergency-declaration-debate/2898779002/

Where the investigations related to President Trump stand

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/where-the-investigations-related-to-president-trump-stand/articleshow/68033042.cms

Actually it is NOT the 9th District Circuit. Its the 9th District CIRCUS.