The American Human: Trump DACA Flub Initially Scrubbed in Official Transcript

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Trump DACA Flub Initially Scrubbed in Official Transcript

Trump's televised immigration meeting -- meant, among other things, to rehabilitate his image post-Michael Wolff book -- contained enough policy confusion that his most confusing, and confused, statement apparently got snipped.

Trump's initial agreement on a clean DACA bill was flagged by Majority Whip
Kevin McCarthy (3rd from right), after which Trump kinda, sorta retreated.

I, too, noticed it when Donald Trump said to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's request for a clean DACA bill, "Yeah, I would like to do it." Very quickly, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy stepped in to correct the president. The White House's official transcript didn't include the flub.

When the White House released its official transcript, one line — of Trump momentarily supporting a clean Dreamers bill — was curiously missing. https://t.co/zK3vB2n9UC pic.twitter.com/K9ORYkBMj7
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) January 10, 2018

The White House's initial response to the discovered rescission was, "Meh, huh?" Later, according to CBS News, the White House slipped the language back in. I guess the Trump administration isn't quite yet ready for wholesale rewriting of history. Not yet.

Oh, and good luck with that rehab business.

Update. For some lol, check what post-rehab Trumps sounds like:

The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization, is a disgrace. Must have tough Primary!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 10, 2018

Just so you know, the released testimony, which the GOP has refused to release in a bipartisan fashion, is unclassified, so nothing stood in Feinstein's way. But, hey, it's Trump, so saying some random thing to happify his base is de rigueur. BTW, Donald, Sneaky Dianne Feinstein? Schtick is getting old...

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