In a Sunday morning tweetstorm, President Trump addressed the resignation of the top lawyer on his legal team, his long-sought wall on the Mexican border,…
In a Sunday morning tweetstorm, President Trump addressed the resignation of the top lawyer on his legal team, his long-sought wall on the Mexican border, increased funding for the US military and the French officer killed in a terror attack but didn’t mention the millions who protested across the country on Saturday for gun control.
“Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case… don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. Fame & fortune will NEVER be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted,” he wrote about Thursday’s resignation of John Dowd, who was leading the team advising him in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“Problem is that a new lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed (if for no other reason than they can bill more), which is unfair to our great country – and I am very happy with my existing team. Besides, there was NO COLLUSION with Russia, except by Crooked Hillary and the Dems!,” he continued.
Trump also turned his attention to the $1.3 trillion spending bill that passed the House and Senate last week and averted a government shutdown.
While the measure allocated $1.6 billion in funding for the wall – which Trump during his presidential campaign promised he would build and Mexico would pay for – but far less than the $25 billion the president had sought.
“Much can be done with the $1.6 Billion given to building and fixing the border wall. It is just a down payment. Work will start immediately. The rest of the money will come – and remember DACA, the Democrats abandoned you (but we will not)!,” Trump wrote.
The reference was to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that got caught up in negotiations over funding for the wall and was left out of the bill.
DAVA protected nearly 800,000 immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children from deportation – known as “Dreamers.”
Trump called for winding down the program last September and gave lawmakers six months to fix it. That deadline passed on March 5.
But the spending bill – which Trump signed on Friday – did include increased funding for the military.
” Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!,” Trump tweeted.
The tweetstorm began shortly after 6 a.m. with a posting about Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, who traded places with a female hostage being held by a gunman who stormed a supermarket.
Beltrame was shot in the neck during the incident on Friday and died of his wounds on Saturday.
The gunman, with ties to the Islamic State, was gunned down by police.
“France honors a great hero. Officer died after bravely swapping places with hostage in ISIS related terror attack. So much bravery around the world constantly fighting radical Islamic terrorism. Even stronger measures needed, especially at borders!,” Trump wrote.
But in that string of Trump tweets, he failed to wrote one word about the millions of protesters who took to the streets across the country and in cities across the world to bring attention to gun violence after the massacre of 17 students and staff members at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine’s Day.
The White House on Saturday in a statement said, “We applaud the many courageous Americans expressing their First Amendment Rights.”
