Sen. Ron Johnson: GOP fully supports
Trump's 'brilliant' tactics with Mexico
Washington Examiner,
by
Dominick Mastrangelo
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
6/10/2019 5:06:33 AM
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said members of his party are united in their support of President Trump’s strategy of using tariffs to motivate Mexico to curb illegal immigration.
“The caucus definitely supports the president's use of tariffs to give us leverage against our trading partners to treat us fairly,” Johnson said on Fox News Sunday. ”This is out of control. That’s why the president had to act, because Mexico had not been acting.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
judy 6/10/2019 5:31:11 AM (No. 94781)
If this is true why did McConnell Ernst & others hold a news conference & oppose the tariffs...while President Trump was on a foreign trip???
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
janjan 6/10/2019 7:08:30 AM (No. 94821)
Last week they were all ready to pass a bill to stop him. Now it was a ‘brilliant strategy’. They obviously think we’re stupid.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 6/10/2019 7:24:20 AM (No. 94833)
The ultimate in brilliance would be the dismantling of the Democrats' malicious, malignant propaganda network, the Enemy of the People, the Enemedia. Is PDT capable of this great (and for national survival, absolutely necessary) feat? We're betting on it...
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#2 They don't think we are stupid, but they realized that they were being stupid by going against their voters and being on the losing side of this fight....so they want to pretend they are supportive now and claim the credit when it works.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
watlines 6/10/2019 7:54:02 AM (No. 94859)
This is a perfect example of getting people to do what they don't want to do.
It's called leadership.
The swampsters on both sides of the aisle don't like it.
Get used to it. President Trump will be pulling you folks by the ears until 2024.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
starboard 6/10/2019 8:34:26 AM (No. 94895)
They showed their weakness to the American people.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/10/2019 8:43:03 AM (No. 94908)
I like Senator Johnson, but he is fibbing here. Maybe, MAYBE, 15% of the GOPers in the House and Senate combined supported President Trump in his strategy to coerce Mexico to slow down the invasion.
That percentage MAY have risen to 20% now that it appears to have been successful.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smcchk 6/10/2019 8:46:51 AM (No. 94917)
Sen. Ron Johnson is a successful businessman too. He respects and understands action instead of talk, talk, talk.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 6/10/2019 9:19:40 AM (No. 94947)
The Mexican government probably thinks it will somehow avoid compliance with the so far vague agreement. But I trust that Pres. Trump will hold their feet to the fire. So I suspect there will be lots of back and forth by all parties including the RINOs. Sen. Johnson and the rest will keep their fingers in the wind on this.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Casper27 6/10/2019 9:20:57 AM (No. 94948)
McConnell and the republicans couldn't wait just a few days before stabbing Trump in the back. Reveals a true disrespect of Trump along with the voters. The couldn't just hold their opinionated horses. So, they made fools out of themselves.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/10/2019 9:52:55 AM (No. 94986)
The pubbies behavior further points out two more deep staters - McConnell and Ernst. And several others. This reversal in strategy as claimed by Sen. Johnson reinforces the notion that it is us vs the deep state.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Congar 6/10/2019 10:21:51 AM (No. 95018)
The Media is still searching for some negative to what Trump is doing and coming up empty.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 6/10/2019 10:37:15 AM (No. 95034)
The vast majority of the GOP do NOT support this president - including my senator, Rob Portman. They need to shut up, sit down and support everything he is trying to do because if they don't, they are going to be toast. I don't know about the rest of Lucianne's readers, but I will never vote for another RINO like George W. Bush, Rob Portman, or any of this type again. They have to be full-throated conservatives that want to destroy everything liberal and socialist if they want my vote.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NotaBene 6/10/2019 11:32:42 AM (No. 95078)
So many anti-Trump names we forget. McConnell, Ernst, Grassley, Lankford, Kennedy, Bunt, Thune, Barasso, Cruz, Cornin, Romney are just the ones I can remember speaking against US and in favor of Mexico. Some even spoke from the well of the senate, where they never dared defend Trump.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/10/2019 11:41:42 AM (No. 95085)
President Trump is the first US President who has had the intestinal fortitude to confront Mexico with being complicit in the mass smuggling by the international criminal smuggling cartels of vast amounts of illicit narcotics, and hundreds to thousands of intending illegal aliens who have been transiting Mexico to reach the US borderline, where the vast majority (90% or more) of those illegal aliens make fraudulent asylum claims to gain entry to the USA.
You would have to be a moron not to figure out by now that there are a huge number of people both in Mexico and the USA who have been benefiting both directly and indirectly politically and fiscally from the mass smuggling of drugs and illegal aliens into the USA, while ignoring the other serious criminal activities from murder on down that have become routine along the insecure Mexico/US borderline. That is very evident from the adverse responses to President Trump’s proposed sanctions initiative targeting Mexico, by both Democrat and Republican politicians, big business interests, all sorts of “special interests” and especially the initial reaction by the US stock market.
Mexico has entered all sorts of agreements with the USA in the past but has rarely followed through with effective action when it comes to borderline matters. As President Trump has said he will be watching to see what Mexico does in the near future to cut the criminal smuggling routes coming across Mexico to the US borderline, and if Mexican action is not effective, that he will again deploy his proposed sanctions initiative to really get the attention of, and change the attitude of the Government of Mexico.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
49 Ford 6/10/2019 12:23:14 PM (No. 95110)
Maybe, #''s 1 & 2, it's because these people have prudently decided that they want to be on the winning side. What is the old expression - " Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BigTimeTrumper 6/10/2019 12:40:16 PM (No. 95117)
I'm from Iowa and Begging Someone to Primary Joni Ernst...Everyone should demand same in their states...Trump showing the worthless trash inhabiting DC to be worse than useless..their DANGEROUS and have the stupidity to demand Raises...Their Multinational Corporate Donors bribe money makes their salaries look puny....Like their accomplishments! ....Keep it up morons...A day of reckoning is coming...2020 is the time to start the take-back of our country!
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