Donald Trump is a skilled con man who has a history of conning contractors, employees, and investors out of millions of dollars along with thousands of men and women who gave him millions to enroll in Trump University.
Trump used his expertise to con potential voters throughout the 2016 campaign into believing that he would stop millions of brown people from coming to America by building a multi-billion dollar wall that was to have been paid for by Mexico.
Trump, of course, had no reason whatsoever to believe that Mexico would pay for his wall but that didn’t matter because the whole thing about the ‘wall’ was nothing more than a campaign punch line designed to appeal to bigots who want to keep brown people out of America. That’s why Trump would so gleefully ask, “Who’s going to pay for the wall?” and those poor folks would robotically chant, “Mexico!”
However, Trump and his family and his campaign advisors including convicted felons like Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and Michael Cohen knew the truth: Trump had no real plan to build his wall because not only was there no need for it, he had no way to pay for it.
That was proven when Republicans who controlled the House, the Senate, and the Executive Branch for the first two years of Trump’s presidency, failed even to try to provide funding for the border wall so raucously promised so often in campaign rallies.
In December 2018, Donald Trump began to worry about going into the 2020 campaign having failed to keep his infamous ‘Build the Wall’ promise that dominated his 2016 campaign.
So, Trump tried to run another con on America by falsely claiming that Mexico would ‘indirectly’ pay for the wall through the USMCA trade deal.
When that con didn’t work, Trump decided to add a second con to confuse Americans by claiming that his ‘wall’ was not a wall . . . it was a ‘fence’ that Democrats could and should support.
Trump attempted to run those cons on Americans simultaneously so he could get taxpayer money out of Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate to pay for the ‘wall.’
So, Trump agreed to sign legislation passed by both the House and Senate to fund the government and augment border security without spending 5.7 billion taxpayer dollars on the so-called ‘wall.’
But then, Ann Coulter, a 57-year old self-proclaimed, self-obsessed, political pundit who’s made millions by spewing outrageous, mostly ridiculous claims (like “We should invade their” (Arab) “countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity”) made the following threat:
“Either Trump never intended to build a wall and was scamming voters from the beginning, or he hasn’t the first idea in how to get it done and no interest in finding out.” She then added, “My prediction is his support will evaporate, and Trump will very likely not finish his term and definitely not be elected to a second term.”
Coulter’s 58-word threat was all it took for Trump to panic and refuse to sign legislation that would have kept the government open and paying hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent American and their families the incomes they deserve.
Makes you wonder . . . how much power does Coulter have over Trump?
Could Coulter, for example, tell Trump to order all Jews in America to be ‘perfected’ (converted to Christianity) or could she insist that Trump order the immediate arrests of all Muslim women, American-born or not, who wear a Hijab?
After all, those are just two of many authoritarian positions advocated by the girl.
Do I have to ask again . . . who is Ann Coulter and why should we care?