Trump’s accidental moment of truth
This raises some questions. We've already been hearing about Trump's possible mental health issues. This just provides more fuel for that fire.Temporarily, the “build a wall” president was transformed into a champion of what he called a “bill of love.”
Trump’s excursion into the politics of charity was prompted when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked if he would support a “clean DACA bill.” By this she meant legislation that would maintain President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program without funding a border wall or making any other concessions to immigration hard-liners.
Trump, who had set DACA to expire this March, was ready to roll. “Yeah, I would like to do it,” he said. And he went further, expressing a desire for “comprehensive immigration reform” that would legalize the status of the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants.
It fell to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to remind Trump of his actual position, or at the least the position he has espoused most often, by suggesting politely that “you need to be clear, though. . . . You have to have security.”
Next question is who is actually in charge here? Is Trump actually running things and setting the agenda any more?