(07-17-2017 09:23 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote: For a news story that is already past it's prime in the world of 24/7 news coverage.
As well as rather dead in the water.
Kind of surprised Trump would want to remind everyone about this.
Must be that Trump & co. feel it can be used for more leverage, there's another angle to exploit or they don't want the shady DNC fingerprints in this regard to go unnoticed.
Trump is the master of misdirection, Anonymous Conservative theorizes Trump himself may have had a hand in releasing his son's emails to divert attention away from THE WALL's imminent construction.
http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blo...rs-emails/
What would Donald get from doing this? This story has overshadowed two major border wall stories. This one:
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises.
The bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2018 also negates one of Trump’s central promises, that Mexico would pay for the construction of the wall.
“Keeping Americans safe by protecting our homeland is a top priority. This funding bill provides the resources to begin building a wall along our southern border, enhance our existing border security infrastructure, hire more border patrol agents, and fund detention operations,” said House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman John Carter.
And this one, which shows things are even farther along than that:
For at least six months, private contractors and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have been quietly preparing to build the first piece of President Trump’s border wall through the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge in South Texas…
“This should be public information,” the official told the Observer
“There shouldn’t be government officials meeting in secret just so they don’t have to deal with the backlash. The public has the right to know about these plans.”
So Trump doesn’t want anybody to know about that, and coincidentally, at the same time, all anyone can talk about are Donald Trump Jr’s emails. Even though it was leaked to the media, it has gotten almost no coverage because everyone thinks the other story might be the key to impeaching President Trump and removing him from office.
It looks to me like another brilliant piece of covfefee by our Commander in Chief.