Toobin: Trump Is Shutting Down Gov’t Because Ann Coulter Got Mad At Him

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CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Thursday that President Trump’s strategy amounts to this: cater to the base.

I mean, he is gonna close down the government because Ann Coulter got mad at him. And that’s, you know, where we are on the budget side. And Mattis is a representative of a broad Washington consensus about military matters. He is not known as a particularly political person. But he’s out now,” Toobin said.

Coulter had gone after Trump in recent days over his initial cave on border wall funding as part of a deal to keep the government open. Trump eventually unfollowed Coulter on Twitter, and the President has now reinstated his demand that $5 billion for his border wall be part of a spending deal.

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  1. Coulter is like a daughter to Trump.

  2. Not sure about Coulter, but his buddies at Fox & Friends slaughtered him yesterday about the wall. And today about the Syria withdrawal decisions, so don’t be surprised that he walks back that one tomorrow.

  3. Except that he doesn’t want to have sex with her.

  4. The one thing Trump cannot survive is the loss of the rabid-right. Even 25% of the rabid-right gets squishy and he’s gone. Can you imagine if your life depended on sucking up to Ann Coulter?

  5. Coulter is Trump’s lovechild with Eva Braun.

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