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White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti after intense backlash
(www.theguardian.com)
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Nah, they will just find new ways to set these precedents dishonoring the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 1pth amendments. Probably the 5th too before long.
They are gearing up for fixing elections, these precedents are set on immigration because that is where they have the most support.
If their people buck at executing under false pretense and slandering to justify it, they will find a situation where they will support it.
Oh for sure I'm not implying the Trump administration is over or anything, but this is just the first time I can ever recall the right not immediately and universally rallying around the most patently false bullshit imaginable.
That said, if they actually pull out of Minneapolis as news reports were indicating, I think this is a huge defeat for the Trump administration. I'm sure they will try to come up with a new plan as you say but it's still a big tactical win to defeat this particular strategy since I think it was pretty clear and easy how it was going to work.
To me the 1pth amendment is the most controversial
The first penisith amendment. Those dicks had to slip it in there.