{"id":83436,"date":"2018-12-12T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83436"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:20:43","slug":"trump-sprang-three-traps-on-pelosi-and-schumer-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83436","title":{"rendered":"Trump sprang three traps on Pelosi and Schumer yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/at-logo.gif\" alt=\"American thinker Logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone watching the news yesterday must have seen the video of Trump, San Fran Nan, and Chuckie in the Oval Office having a little chat. This was a set-up by Trump, as SFN and Chuckie clearly did not expect the press to be present during the meeting, and said as much several times. Judging by body language, Chuckie clearly wished himself elsewhere as Trump cornered them on boarder security and building the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Our friend Poetrooper drew our attention to the work of one of his fellow American Thinker writers about the occasion, and suggested TAH readers would be interested. I certainly was, so now we both think you will be, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump sprang three traps on Pelosi and Schumer yesterday<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Thomas Lifson<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Trump clearly shocked House speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer yesterday with his televising of the Oval Office sit-down over his demand for $5 billion in funding for border security, including funding of critical mileage for his border wall. Knowing well that Pelosi had already vowed publicly that &#8220;transparency and openness&#8221; would characterize the Democrat-run House starting next month, her plaintive request to speak in private scored points for Trump and revealed her hypocrisy before any substance at all was considered.<br \/>\nThe remarkable body language during the meeting tells the story of Trump&#8217;s dominance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DdFiTUSTE48\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That was merely the first of three traps Trump had prepared for the Democrats&#8217; congressional leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s second trap is his bold declaration of ownership of any &#8220;government shutdown.&#8221; Democrats have convinced themselves that what is called a &#8220;shutdown,&#8221; but really means furloughing non-essential federal workers, is a tragedy, a scar on the nation&#8217;s psyche. The fact that federal workers are now a major and solid constituency for Democrats skews their perception of the public&#8217;s concern. Aside from canceling sleigh rides in national parks and other such photo drama, the fact is that life goes on well for nearly all Americans during the furlough. They learn that there are a lot of non-essential government workers.<\/p>\n<p>After multiple shutdowns, including the last one that bore the label &#8220;Schumer Shutdown&#8221; and was quickly conceded by the Democrats, the public is no longer afraid of non-essential services (roughly 25% of the government) being temporarily suspended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire article can and should be read at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/trump_sprang_three_traps_on_pelosi_and_schumer_yesterday_.html\">American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone watching the news yesterday must have seen the video of Trump, San Fran Nan, and &hellip; <a title=\"Trump sprang three traps on Pelosi and Schumer yesterday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83436\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump sprang three traps on Pelosi and Schumer yesterday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}