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Maeve

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6. And most people in America don't know that what he's offering is crap

Reply to pdsimdars (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 07:45 PM

Jan 2019

DACA and TPS are tied up in the courts right now; they aren't really something he can "give". It's posturing on something even members of his own party want.
To properly negotiate, you have to offer something the other side wants AND can't achieve without you. He doesn't get that.

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reason Trump keeps making these STUPID offers. . . . . [View all] pdsimdars Jan 2019 OP

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And most people in America don't know that what he's offering is crap Maeve Jan 2019 #6

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