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Cannot believe how BADLY DACA recipients have been treated by the Democrats...totally abandoned! Republicans are still working hard.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2018
Translation: What part of "hostage situation" do Democrats not understand? I'm going to send your precious DACA kids to hell if you don't do what I want! It'll be your fault! https://t.co/pidRHSt1Z5— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 17, 2018
It's an unceasing astonishment to me that Trump can seem completely unaware that the predicament of the "incredible kids" is something he caused himself with his "arbitrary and capricious" action, as Judge Nicholas Garaufis of New York's Eastern District called it, in the opinion blocking the action:
If the decision is allowed to go into effect prior to a full adjudication on the merits, there is no way the court can “unscramble the egg” and undo the damage caused by what, on the record before it, appears to have been a patently arbitrary and capricious decision.
Incidentally, this move from Judge Garaufis, the second federal judge to reject Trump's attempt to end the DACA program, must be part of what Democrats are taking into account as they work on the issue. It's really starting to seem likely that the courts are going to preserve DACA no matter what Congress does—I'd never have believed that a year ago, but with the ongoing failure of Trump's third attempt at a Muslim ban (which the Supreme Court has allowed to go into partial or half-assed temporary effect but has now been declared unconstitutional in two federal courts), I'm getting to be a believer.
Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2018
You've been (a) working with Russian mafiosi in your so-called business and (b) talking about running for president for 20 years. What does your announcement have to do with it? https://t.co/RGasgMVlrx— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 17, 2018
Intelligence community hasn't assessed the effects of the massive propaganda campaign we're learning about from yesterday's indictments, or the theft and weaponization of DNC and Podesta emails and collaboration with WikiLeaks ("I love WikiLeaks!" you kept saying).— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 17, 2018
And they haven't even started talking about the Mercer-funded work done by Cambridge Analytica and its Russian connection and the impact that had on the election.— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 17, 2018
Aside from all the techie stuff I don't know at all about voter rolls and the targeting of bot messages at specific election districts and whatnot, Wall Street Journal reported last November that Cambridge Analytica head Alexander Nix had been working with Julian Assange on editorial issues in the publication of Democratic emails in the summer of 2016. Nix denies he had any Russia connection in that, but then as Jonathan Chait remarked at the time he also denied Russia had any involvement in the election, a denial that seems even more ridiculous now than it did three months ago.
Left out Roger Stone, Peter Smith, Alexander Nix, Scaramucci, Tillerson and Ross, Caputo, Nigel Farage, Erik Prince, Boris Epshteyn and Felix Sater...But evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump campaign workers--Papadopoulos, Page, Manafort and Gates, Flynn, Gordon, Cohen, Sessions, Donald Jr., Kushner--just keeps growing and growing. Not mentioned in the indictments, but there will be more indictments.— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 17, 2018
There will be so many indictments we'll be sick of indictments. We'll be saying, Director Mueller, enough indictments! Just let Congress impeach the whole thing and get these criminals out of town!— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 17, 2018
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