I wrote about this this a few days ago. Now that it has passed by unanimous consent in the Senate, we’ll have to see if it passes in the House and lands like a giant wet turd on President Trump’s Resolute Desk.
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Maybe he’ll sneak in a signing under cover of hurricane coverage, hoping the whole thing will all blow over (yeh, I know) before CNN stops the relentless disaster-casting.
He’d be smart to sign it, since it means nothing. His Nazi friends wouldn’t even care. He already signalled clearly that he stands with them, regardless of any later back-tracking under pressure. They know that his first statement is the honest one, and that the later mealy mouthed retraction is something forced on him by his staff.
Half the time, he resents being handled, and goes off the reservation immediately and undoes whatever damage control his staff have managed to do.
The GOP will find a way to bury this bill because it just insults their base. White Nationalists are the new face of the Republican Party.
It’s because he resents being handled that he won’t want to sign it.
He’ll sign it, but only after adding a Signing Statement that “Antifa and BLM are just as bad, if not worse, than the ‘very nice folks’ that attend the KKK rallies”.
The bigots and white supremacists understood that Trump’s “disavowal” statement in response to Charlottesville was just something he had to do and was not to be taken as a lack of support for them. They understood Trump was just playing the “game” but was still a trusted fellow traveler.
Trump will sign the statement knowing his bigoted base gets it.
I’m guessing this will die in the HOR with all those freedom loving racists voting against.
Per Cugel’s comment above, if there’s any way for this to not come up for any kind of vote in the House, that’s what we should expect to happen. I don’t know the procedural minutia to know if that’s even a possibility.