The same red meat speech with the usual Schtick at CPAC with what passes for policy under his regime. More state-sponsored doping.
Think of this speech as a much longer version of what some MSM outlets treated as reverse spin last night, trying to insist that Rick Gates was not going to plead guilty to single counts of conspiracy and false statements. The media was just trying to create what passes for message balance and CYA in case something happened at the last minute.
Gates will make a deal.
One might almost think that Gates made an intentional false statement so he could plead guilty to making a false statement … if one was so inclined.
The next steps will be more interesting as Paul Manafort now becomes more vulnerable as his business partner and deputy Trump 2016 campaign manager makes a deal with Mueller.
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Trump is reading the "snake" poem that he often read in 2016
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The president is re-reading a poem called "the snake" that he often read on the campaign trail at rallies during the 2016 presidential race.
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Trump claims Democrats have "totally abandoned DACA"
Mr. Trump said that Democrats in Congress have "totally abandoned DACA," the 2012 program created to defer deportations for people brought to the U.S. illegally has children. The Trump administration has tried to end the program, but now that case is stuck in the court system.
Lawmakers in Congress recently failed to come up with an immigration deal to protect DACA recipients that would also fund the president's border wall and immigration priorities.
Democrats have not abandoned DACA -- their priority is to protect the program.
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Trump refers to his 2011 speech to CPAC
"I was received with such warmth," Mr. Trump said about his 2011 speech to CPAC.
The president said that CPAC used to give "the best speech of" the event and he joked, "You'd better pick me or I'm not coming back here."
Mr. Trump said that his 2011 speech was the "first real political speech that I made."
"It was a lovefest."
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Trump says that his speech is a "little boring"
The president asked the audience if he could "go off-script a little bit."
Mr. Trump called his own speech "a little boring."
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45* only wishes he could _____ a Russian iceskater
"His battle with NYC Mayor Ed Koch over Wollman Rink in Central Park still forms the core of his political identity. In June of 1986, Donald J. Trump was a second-tier developer in a city crawling with ambitious builders. He had a single skyscraper to his name, and was probably best known as the part owner of the New Jersey Generals in the flailing United States Football League, his taste for shiny finishes and his regular fulminations attesting to his own importance."
The rink was an emblem of civic dysfunction. Formerly a jewel in the crown of Central Park, a supporting star in films like Love Story and half a dozen others, Wollman Rink had fallen into disrepair. And what was worse was that the city seemingly had no idea how fix it. Shuttered for repairs in 1980 by the Koch administration and set to be restored at the cost of $4.7 million, by 1985, the rink was $12 million over budget and still not ready.
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In allowing Trump to build the rink, Koch didn’t exactly capitulate—Trump had originally wanted to pay for the renovation himself, covering his costs by running the rink and an adjacent restaurant. In the final deal, the city paid for the renovation, and the profits were all donated to charity.
Trump had Wollman Rink up and running by November 1, two months ahead of schedule and $775,000 under budget. Skating stars like Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Dick Button, and Aja Zanova-Steindler glided across the ice at the ribbon cutting, with Button declaring the new rink to be like skating on velvet.
"This serves as an example of what New York, the wealthiest city in the world, can do in terms of saving money—if things are done right," Trump said. “If we could just plan and execute, it would be billions and billions of dollars that would be saved."
And in a city where the major developers sit atop philanthropic boards and give away billions to make New York a slightly better place to live, Wollman has remained Trump’s lone calling card of his concern for the greater good.
“Yes, he did a solid for the city, but he also burnished his reputation to a considerable extent,” Benepe said.
“Most real estate developers, when they get involved in something like this, ask themselves what’s in it for the city. Trump wanted to know what was in it for Donald Trump and then there may be some ancillary benefits for the city.”
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