Judge Napolitano: The 'Democrats Have Captured the Day'

[DonViejo]

Judge Napolitano on Political Fallout From Migrant Family Separation: The ‘Democrats Have Captured the Day’

by Ken Meyer | 1:13 pm, June 20th, 2018

As Donald Trump seems about ready to reverse on his administration’s policy on the southern border, Judge Andrew Napolitano says the president seems to have lost the politcal battle on this issue.

The Fox News senior judicial analyst was today’s #OneLuckyGuy on Outnumbered, and his conversation with the ladies gravitated around the long-term connotations of Trump’s policy separating migrant children from their families. As Napolitano talked about how Trump and his political opponents have used the migrant situation as a negotiation point, he said that the White House’s current trajectory shows that they’ve realized the current controversy is too politically damaging to sustain.

“About an hour and a half ago I was filming a clip in front of the building. Somebody came up to me, I don’t want to say who it was. We all know this person, the person has been on this show, the person is very familiar with the White House who said to me ‘Their internal polls are killing them. The president has got to do something immediately.’ The phrase I used to John Roberts a few minutes ago, the Democrats have captured the day on this.”

As the discussion turned to what Congress needs to do to follow up on Trump’s executive actions here, Napolitano said POTUS will defuse the worst of the blowback to himself by showing “compassion” at this moment. He particularly expressed support for the bill Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) proposed earlier this week to change the immigration system and keep families together.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. it will a good day, it will be a great week if they don't give the Pig the money for his monument...

to himself.

[liberalmuse]

2. This really isn't a win for anyone.

I'm afraid Trump will sign this meaningless order and continue business as usual. This administration and the entire GOP are utterly lawless and immoral. I don't trust they will stop doing what they are doing to these families, and I don't trust that they will make any sort of effort whatsoever to ensure the children already separated are reunited with their parents. We need to keep holding their feet to the fire.

[gratuitous]

3. So it's just a headline, a political win for the day?

Nothing more or less to the likes of Andrew Napolitano. The kidnappings, the torture, the abuse, all to be subordinated to who "captured the day." If only the administration had worked their message better, they could have "won"; is that what Napolitano is saying here? It sure sounds like it.

Would you like to reconsider your comments, Andrew, and come back in again?

[thucythucy]

4. That's all that bothers them: the optics.

Callous and cynical to the core.

[Freethinker65]

5. And those kids and families lose? This is not a fucking game

"Trump will diffuse by showing" (faking) "compassion."

This is all theatrics to Trump. All about protecting his image, power, and money. Sickening.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Internal polling,I want to vomit. There was a time when

Internal polling was not needed to answer the question of whether we should isolate babies from their family and then put them in cages.

[duforsure]

7. Figures he'd support cruz's bill

It had a bunch of things to further prevent immigrants any reasonable path for citizenship with it, and full of holes. Another scam for PR , and this is also to be expected from the liar ted cruz. Another fraud claiming to be something good, when it isn't. No Democrat should vote for that. Then trump can claim obstruction, obstruction . Trump is a criminal , and cruz promoting this as something good is also. Was this planned to give them a way out, another excuse to claim Dems are to blame, probably. cruz is crooked as they come , and nothing he says or does should be trusted .