{"id":34713,"date":"2019-01-07T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34713"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:26:09","slug":"potus-seeks-to-rally-the-base-er-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34713","title":{"rendered":"POTUS seeks to rally the base, ‘er, nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump wants to go on national TV to rally Americans to his side as he pitches the idea of building The Wall along our southern border.<\/p>\n

I believe the networks ought to carry the president’s televised speech Tuesday night. Let the man have his say and let the public debate and decide on the veracity of what he is contending.<\/p>\n

Trump is considering whether to declare a national emergency to obtain money for The Wall. Why? Because he contends that terrorists are crossing an “open border.” He is trying to gin up fear, in my view, among Americans.<\/p>\n

Oh, but wait. We are now getting reports from other sources that say that a grand total of six suspected terrorists were apprehended along the border in 2018, not the reported 4,000 of them alleged by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Indeed, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, interviewing White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Sunday, challenged her 4,000-terrorist assertion by declaring that those suspects are being apprehended at our nation’s airports.<\/p>\n

So now we’re going to hear from the commander in chief about what looks like a fabricated crisis along our border.<\/p>\n

Please . . .<\/p>\n\n

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