The Wrong Fight
A risky move, landing in court, spurred a brawl – but give Trump credit: He’s outsmarting both Democrats and the press.
Defying a judge’s order was a silly mistake. Trump could’ve made his case in court, won, and shipped Kilmar Garcia to an El Salvador prison. Instead charging out on a limb he threw ‘due process’ out the window.
That led to the Republican Supreme Court and a Republican Appeals Court judge both ruling Trump went too far – not by deporting Garcia but by throwing ‘due process’ out of the window to do it.
So how on earth is Trump winning this fight?
There’s one question Trump doesn’t want to hear a reporter ask: ‘When you threw ‘due process’ out the window didn’t you throw the Constitution out the window too? So you could have more power. Isn’t that what this is really all about – more power?’
So he’s dangling bait in front of the media.
A Democrat Senator flew to El Salvador – the next day videos of him sitting at a table with Garcia were all over the media. Trump flooded social media with posts, like Border Czar Tom Homan accusing Democrats of siding with gang members who murder and rape.
The media took the bait – and Trump got the fight he wants.
Appointed by Ronald Reagan, sitting on the Appeals Court in Richmond over forty years, putting politics aside, an old-fashioned conservative Harvie Wilkinson wrote what Trump doesn’t want to hear in black-and-white in a ruling: It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all…the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders…
Hitting the nail on the head Wilkinson pointed out if that happens ‘the Executive’s obligation to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed would lose its meaning.’
Trump’s winning his fight with the media. But that’s not the fight that matters.
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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.
The Wrong Fight
A risky move, landing in court, spurred a brawl – but give Trump credit: He’s outsmarting both Democrats and the press.
Defying a judge’s order was a silly mistake. Trump could’ve made his case in court, won, and shipped Kilmar Garcia to an El Salvador prison. Instead charging out on a limb he threw ‘due process’ out the window.
That led to the Republican Supreme Court and a Republican Appeals Court judge both ruling Trump went too far – not by deporting Garcia but by throwing ‘due process’ out of the window to do it.
So how on earth is Trump winning this fight?
There’s one question Trump doesn’t want to hear a reporter ask: ‘When you threw ‘due process’ out the window didn’t you throw the Constitution out the window too? So you could have more power. Isn’t that what this is really all about – more power?’
So he’s dangling bait in front of the media.
A Democrat Senator flew to El Salvador – the next day videos of him sitting at a table with Garcia were all over the media. Trump flooded social media with posts, like Border Czar Tom Homan accusing Democrats of siding with gang members who murder and rape.
The media took the bait – and Trump got the fight he wants.
Appointed by Ronald Reagan, sitting on the Appeals Court in Richmond over forty years, putting politics aside, an old-fashioned conservative Harvie Wilkinson wrote what Trump doesn’t want to hear in black-and-white in a ruling: It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all…the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders…
Hitting the nail on the head Wilkinson pointed out if that happens ‘the Executive’s obligation to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed would lose its meaning.’
Trump’s winning his fight with the media. But that’s not the fight that matters.
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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.