He caved to a three-week government reopening, and continues to walk back his wall promises. Mexico still isn’t paying for the wall. There’s no emergency declaration (yet). Repeats his bondage fantasies about women exploited by human traffickers.
POTUS wrapped his remarks at 2:35 PM after detailing the deal to end shutdown and going on an extended riff about why he believes a wall is necessary.
One bit of color from the Rose Garden:
The TelePrompTer said “[Talk about Human Trafficking]” then stopped when President Trump described women being tied up and put in cars by traffickers. Riff appeared to be ad libbed.
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