Former President Donald Trump called the Senate’s $118 billion border security bill one of the “dumbest bills” he’d ever seen while describing it as “a Democrat trap” and “a trap for Republicans,”
As The Daily Fetched reported on Monday, Republicans in Congress slammed the latest so-called ‘bipartisan’ deal on Biden’s border policy legislation, which they noted gives another $60 billion to Ukraine and nothing for a border wall.
“I urge Congress to come together and swiftly pass this bipartisan agreement,” President Joe Biden said.
The bill, released on Sunday, titled the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, has already attracted anger from GOP Reps and Senators, who called it an ‘open border bill.’
Newsmax host Rob Schmitt asked Trump why some Senate Republicans were “itching to sign off” on the legislation.
Trump replied:
“Well, it’s hard to believe because I think it probably would mean the end of their career.”
“This is a Democrat trap. It’s a trap for Republicans that would be so stupid, so foolish to sign a bill like this. This bill can’t be signed.”
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President Trump: "This is a Democrat trap. It's a trap for Republicans… it's one of the dumbest bills I've ever seen." pic.twitter.com/vMYkY3wTLv
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) February 6, 2024
He added:
“It’s not only that, it’s massive amounts of money going out of town, as we say … billions, and billions and billions of dollars and it’s so bad on the border,” Trump said.
“I’ve never seen anything like it. Actually, it’s one of the dumbest bills I’ve ever seen.”
Trump continued:
“I had the safest border in the history of our country. We had no bill, and I just said, ‘Close the border.’ It’s closed.”
“We had the safest border in history, the history of our country, we had the safest border.”
“Now we have, I believe, the worst border in the history of the world. There’s never been a border like this. Ever.”
The former president even said that a “Third-World country” has a better border than the United States.
Trump went on to add that his “remain in Mexico” policy served to prevent illegal immigrants from flooding the country during his time in the White House.
“I went to Mexico, and negotiated with Mexico. They gave us 28,000 troops,” Trump said.
“They gave us a lot of other things. Stay in Mexico. Remain … we called it remain in Mexico, they gave us that. This bill doesn’t have anything about remain in Mexico.”
