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Why Do Democrats Keep Giving Trump So Many “Gifts” At The Same Time As They’re Impeaching Him?

And one “gift” they won’t give him…

Eric J Scholl
6 min readDec 20, 2019

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Democrats did hand Trump “wins” on a number of the President’s pet projects while they were also busy impeaching him: a big trade deal with Canada and Mexico, the establishment of the Space Force as a branch of the military, which itself is part of a bipartisan defense budget deal that apparently contains no big challenges to the President’s priorities, because it hasn’t spurred him — at least not so far — to throw any kind of tantrum. The only wish-list item missing from what Democrats are handing Trump this Christmas season seems to be a giant infrastructure deal.

But why? Why gift the President “wins” when they’ve finally gotten him looking like a “loser”?

We see a lot of Liberals attacking Democrats especially on Twitter these days precisely about that. And especially after the President congratulated himself for getting federal employees a pay raise, which he expressly didn’t want to give them: it’s only in there as the result of deal-making with Democrats.

While we understand the desire to let the President stew in his own juices for a while, we totally don’t get it. If you object to the trade pact with Canada and Mexico on its merits, OK. But if…

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Eric J Scholl
Eric J Scholl

Written by Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com

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