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Just days before Christmas and it appeared the federal government was headed for another shutdown after President Trump changed his mind and demanded funds for border security in the form of “metal slats”. In response, the liberal broadcast networks took out their frustrations on conservatives for getting to the President’s ear. They lashed out Thursday evening, labeling them as “far-right” and describing them like animals.
During her report on CBS Evening News, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes commented that “[t]he President's about-face sent lawmakers scrambling as the chances of a shutdown shot up.” “The Senate passed the bill unanimously last night, but then the President started to get an ear full from the far-right,” she suggested.
Cordes’s examples of those “far-right” voices?
REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OH): No way!
LAURA INGRAHAM: The wall, the wall, the wall has to be built.
REP. MARK MEADOWS (R-NC): This is a fumble. [Flash] If we’re not going to fight now, when are we going to fight?
Keeping with the liberal media’s designated messaging, ABC congressional and anti-GOP reporter Mary Bruce similarly noted during World News Tonight that, “[j]ust when it seemed President Trump was preparing to sign a bill that would keep the government running, but would not fund his border wall, tonight, a dramatic about-face.”
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