So, Trump reportedly had some White House insiders (including his callow, feckless son-in-law) negotiate with some leading Republicans to come up with a plan to end their government shutdown. Because having created this crisis all by themselves they apparently think they can bargain their way out of it all by themselves. As if they don’t actually understand how any of this works. But their solution is no solution at all.
This is what they came up with:
And it’s even worse:
So, the “offer” is temporary protections for a permanent wall. Which, if accepted, would give Trump every incentive down the road to extort something else he wants for a temporary extension of the temporary protections.
No deal. Because it’s not a deal.
It will be interesting to see how the media play this. Some already are reflexively playing “both sides” for the shutdown, which Trump himself said he’d do by himself and not blame Democrats, before doing it by himself and blaming Democrats, so keep a close eye on those who call this an offer or bargain or attempt to reach out or whatever. Because it’s none of those. It’s just another attempted scam by a bunch of grifters who don’t know how to do anything but scam.