Amended White House transcript reveals Trump showed brief interest in 'clean' DACA deal

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

The White House on Wednesday released a corrected transcript of President Donald Trump's meeting Tuesday with lawmakers that showed he briefly seemed to endorse a Democratic plan to strike a deal on protections for young undocumented immigrants without funding for a border wall with Mexico.

In an exchange during a White House summit on immigration Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) proposed an agreement on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative, known as DACA, without provisions such as increased border security measures that Republicans want.

"What about a clean DACA bill now, with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure?" the Democratic lawmaker asked Trump.

"I have no problem," Trump said during the back and forth.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/10/trump-clean-daca-deal-333154

[elleng]

1. He 'endorsed' something he did not understand.

Anyone who tries to take 'meaning' from anything he said at the meeting is foolish.

[irisblue]

2. Sneaky sleazy move by the WH Transcription team.

1950s Soviet style behavior.

[PdxSean]

4. I was thinking the exact same thing.

These fuckers are truly, to their cores, dishonest miscreants. If we were all in a Marx Brothers' movie, it would be hilarious.

[L. Coyote]

3. "I have no idea what I'm saying, but I'm going to say something anyway."

"O.K., now I understand, a 'clean bill' does not refer to Big Mac stains" said the Very Stable Genius.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. They keep forgetting

that there is usually a "tape" of exactly what they said and did, archived forever on the internet!