Elections
GOP lawmakers bash Trump, say election fraud is ‘not real,’ call him ‘a loser president’
By Jenny Goldsberry
Two GOP lawmakers have railed against former President Trump for his recent remarks at an Ohio rally Saturday. Both Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) reacted to the rally on CNN Sunday.
Romney said the rally reminded him of the World Wrestling Federation. “This is like WWF, that it’s entertaining, but it’s not real,” the Utah Republican senator said.
Romney said Trump’s allegations about election fraud haven’t come from any reputable sources. “Did [Trump] hear it from the intelligence community? No,” Romney said. “So where did he hear it from? The MyPillow guy? Rudy Giuliani?”
On the other hand, Kinzinger called the Saturday festivities “a rally of a loser president.”
“I mean, he’s the first president to lose re-election in decades,” Kinzinger said. “And I don’t know why these folks would go there and in essence ogle at and in many cases just short of worship a loser, but they did.”
However, when it comes to the election fraud allegations, the Illinois Republican representative thought the talking points are working on American voters. “And then he went into old recycled talking points. Look, but the problem is, again, people believe this. They really do,” Kinzinger said. “And there’s enough people, frighteningly, that believe he’ll be president in August.”
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In November, president-elect Donald Trump announced on social media that he would impose a 25% tariff on all products from Canada and Mexico if they do not take an active role in containing illegal immigration as well as the level of illicit drugs entering into the United States.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, after which the Canadian government vowed to secure the border. “We got, I think, a mutual understanding of what they’re concerned about in terms of border security,” Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, who accompanied Trudeau at Mar-a-Largo, said of the meeting in an interview with Canadian media. “All of their concerns are shared by Canadians and by the government of Canada.”
“We talked about the security posture currently at the border that we believe to be effective, and we also discussed additional measures and visible measures that we’re going to put in place over the coming weeks,” LeBlanc continued. “And we also established, Rosemary, a personal series of rapport that I think will continue to allow us to make that case.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation reports the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is preparing to beef up its immigration enforcement capabilities by hiring more staff, adding more vehicles and creating more processing facilities, in the chance that there is an immigration surge sparked by Trump’s presidential election victory. The moves are a change in direction from Trudeau’s public declaration in January 2017 that Canada was a “welcoming” country and that “diversity is our strength” just days after Trump was sworn into office the first time.
The Daily Caller notes the differences in response from the Canadian government verses Mexico’s:
Trudeau’s recent overtures largely differ from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has indicated she is not willing to bend the knee to Trump’s tariff threats. The Mexican leader in November said “there will be a response in kind” to any tariff levied on Mexican goods going into the U.S., and she appeared to deny the president-elect’s claims that she agreed to do more to beef up border security in a recent phone call.
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