Donald Trump Supporter Launches 'Incredibly Violent Attack' On BBC Cameraman At El Paso Rally

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  1. Ddyad

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    Sessions was probably too busy helping McCabe wire up Rosenstein for his meetings with the president to even consider prosecuting a documented felon like Clapper.
     
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    The Wall will be far more effective at stopping illegal border crossings than any law or executive order banning influence peddling in Washington.

    “Lobbyist can offer, in other words, an implicit preemptive payoff to powerful government officials. It happens not only on the Hill but in the boastfully anti-lobbyist, anti-revolving-door Obama White House. Scores of administration officials had by 2010 left the administration for K Street jobs without anyone so much as pointing out that they were defying a ***central tenet*** of the Obama political enterprise.” … “There's a payoff," Hess [Stephen Hess Brookings Institution] concluded using the word “payoff” with no apparent wryness.” Mark Leibovich, This Town, Penguin Books, 2013, pp. 163,164. (*** mine)”

    Where there is a will and lots of loot there is a way.
     
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    Your false charge is funny; besides being off-topic.
     
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    Okay, I will speak for all Trump supporters - brace yourself: prosecute convict and jail the AH.
    Happy? :)
     
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    I was fooled by Obama, I admit.
    Upon his very 1st appointment to his cabinet, I knew he was just another of the same cloth politician. He lost all support from me at that point.

    Most illegals coming here and that are here, didn't waltz across the border. And most don't.
    We have barriers already funneling migrants to ports of entry. And the natural border of Rio Grande and terrain.
     
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    Walls work, and they are cheap and doable. Congress is barely functional. The donor class supports open borders so no laws will be passed to efficiently and quickly expel illegal aliens. Walls are the best bet to slow the flow.
     
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    Likely fake like every other story about Trump supporters.
     
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    It's only ironic if it doesn't occur in fantasy land.
     
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    Construction

    Size of the wall: 1,150 miles long; 40 feet high; 10 feet deep into the ground; 1 foot wide

    Total volume of material: 11.2 million cubic yards

    Materials: Approximately $8.7 billion in concrete (97 percent of the materials); approximately $3.6 billion in steel (3 percent of the materials)

    Labor: Approximately $12.3 billion (given the labor costs on the original 654 miles of barriers we can assume a conservative 1:1 ratio of materials to labor)

    Land acquisition: About 60 percent of the border is privately owned land. While the federal government has the power to take privately owned property for public purposes, it must provide “just compensation.” Based on previous purchases from the 2006-2009 wall construction, the cost at most would be $300,000 per mile acquired, or approximately $200 million altogether.

    In total, the actual physical cost of the wall would be about $25 billion. That sounds like a ton of money. But it isn’t just one person paying for it – the entirety of the U.S. taxpayer base would collectively foot the bill.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tru...ill-actually-cost-according-to-a-statistician

    I suppose the definition of cheap is relative.
    Given the gov't spends,
    Let's put that number in context. There are 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, and 60 minutes in an hour. That adds up to a total of 525,600 minutes. Divide that figure into the $3.6 trillion in FY2010 spending and you find that the federal government spends about $6.85 million per minute.
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-spending-per-minute-685-million/
     
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    $21B is chump change for the USG.

    FORBES, Your Pension Is a Lie: There's $210 Trillion Of Liabilities Our Government Can't Fulfill, By John Mauldin, Oct 10, 2017.
     

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