MS NOW host Michael Steele on Monday shared a quite damning prediction in regards to the upcoming State of the Union deal with, foreseeing nothing however lies from President Donald Trump — and unbridled assist from the Republican members of Congress.
Steele and his “Weeknight” co-hosts had been discussing bombshell testimony from Ryan Schwank, a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement teacher, who mentioned Monday that ICE is “lying to Congress and the American people” about its coaching protocols.
“The president tomorrow is going to get up in the podium in the well of the Congress, and he’s going to lie directly to the American people,” Steele mentioned. “And Republicans will sit there and applaud, like little seals, every lie that comes out of his mouth.”
He continued, “And so it does become incumbent … to ask the question, how do you frame the narrative, the takeaway narrative, for what the American people hear? You cannot allow the lies to set in any more than they already have. They just can’t.”
Steele was joined by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who co-hosted the congressional discussion board Monday for Schwank. The former ICE teacher testified that the company’s coaching program is “deficient, defective and broken” — and “will get people killed.”
Blumenthal’s workplace has additionally acquired inner paperwork suggesting ICE plans to coach almost 4,000 new officers this yr, after eliminating greater than a dozen exams, chopping lessons from its program and spending fewer hours coaching cadets than ever.
“So how do we help the American people understand what they’re hearing tomorrow night is a crock, from a man who has a vested interest in selling crockery to the American people?” requested Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee.
Blumenthal replied, “I just want to tell you, every day, I am angry and frustrated beyond words by this president. And I’m using every tool, and so are my colleagues, to fight back. I am going to come out of that chamber tomorrow and I’m going to say exactly what I feel.”
Most Republicans have proven overwhelming fealty to Trump, nonetheless, regardless of some expressing reduction final week that the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs and nearly all of them supporting the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November.
The State of the Union deal with nonetheless comes at a precarious time for Trump.
His disapproval score is the very best it’s been in 5 years, based on a latest Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos ballot, and CNN chief information analyst Harry Enten mentioned Trump has a “significantly decrease” web approval score than any of his predecessors this century.
Trump’s immigration agenda seems to be central to those figures, as his deployment of federal brokers resulted within the deaths of a number of U.S. residents final month, and a nationwide NPR/PBS News/Marist survey later discovered 65% of individuals polled really feel ICE has gone too far.
Blumenthal mentioned Monday that it’s “disgraceful and shameful” of Trump and his administration to proceed telling “untruths to the American people” about ICE, arguing that the paperwork he’s acquired and Monday’s testimony paint a transparent and ominous image.
“They’re not rogue agents,” Blumenthal mentioned. “They’re acting under orders.”
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