Donald Trump Continues Pressuring Republican Senators Against Border Deal They Originally Wanted

Because a border deal would have made his opponent for this year's presidential election look good, Donald Trump once again poured water against a Senate border compromise that would have given additional funding for border security in exchange for aid for Israel and Ukraine.

During his latest tirade in an effort to pressure Republican senators to back out from the border deal they had originally wanted, the former president claimed it was a "great gift to the Democrats and a Death Wish for The Republican Party."

Originally, the Senate border deal would have tightened "asylum standards and automatically shut down the southern border to illegal crossings if encounters reached a certain daily threshold," according to Politico. Instead, Trump is claiming, "Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day when we already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done," even though the bill would have done so.

Trump previously pledged to fight the bill "all the way" as he continued to bash the border deal. "As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible, open borders betrayal of America. It's not going to happen, and I'll fight it all the way," Trump previously said, beginning a pressure campaign against Senate Republicans who are working to make the happen.

This was the very deal Trump and the senators have been wanting last year, as it included shutting down the border when the threshold is breached. However, he and his allies are now working to scuttle it because Joe Biden and the Democrats would have gained politically from the bill's passage.

Fox News Host Confronts Donald Trump Over Mistakes; He Struggles To Answer Them

Meanwhile, as Trump is sabotaging his own party's agenda so his opponent can look bad, Trump was asked on Fox News, an outlet usually friendly to him, about his mistakes in hiring personnel to serve him. Fox News's Maria Bartiromo directly confronted him about this, asking, "Your critics say you had plenty of personnel mistakes," questioning Trump's claim of only hiring the "best people."

"No, of course, but everybody does," the ex-POTUS deflected. "Obama had. What about Biden? Look at the people running this Biden thing. The difference is I fire people," in an effort to shift the blame on his bad personnel decisions to the Democrats.

However, Bartiromo pressed him, asking, "How do you know, if you get back in, you don't have a network of people around you working against you?" To this, Trump answered, "I will, and so will anybody else that gets in as a Republican, these people are sick, these are sick people."

Joe Biden Derides Donald Trump in Scathing Speech

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden, fresh off from winning South Carolina in a major landslide, took aim at his presumptive Republican rival in his victory speech, according to the Guardian.

"In 2020, it was the voters of South Carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the presidency," Biden stated. "Now in 2024, the people of South Carolina have spoken again and I have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the presidency again - and making Donald Trump a loser - again."

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Written by: Rick Martin

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