Trump -psykoosi

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"Median ei pidä alkaa kilpailemaan Infowarsin ja Alex Jonesin kanssa siitä, kuka pystyy kehittämään hurjempia salaliittoteorioita. Jones kun päihittäisi median sekä kokemuksella että viihdearvolla. "
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Esiintuomasi juttu on kokolailla totuus tuosta demareiden Trumppijahdista, mutta eräs asia ei siitä tule esiin, nimittäin kun propaganda kamppania epäonnistuu ja totuus selviää niin toimiat menettävät uskottavuutensa ja tulevaisuudessa tuskin kukaan edes Euroopassa uskoo Venäjän vaikutusyrityksiin ja salaisiin kamppanioihin vaikka kuinka EU ja Presidentti Obama ja Moskovan mummo Merkel vakuuttaa, eli kultuurimarxistit ja liberaalipunavihreet tekivät karhunpalveluksen lännelle ja edesauttoivat Venäjää ja Presidentti Putinia.

Seuraavina vuosina nähdään raju suunnanmuutos poliittisessa kentässä ja näemme paluun kaksinapaiseen mailmaan, kiitos siitä kuuluu juurikin näille jotka ovat nyt muutaman vuoden lätränneet kaalisopan kanssa mahorkka suupielessä.
 
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En tunne kirjoittajaa, en arvaile mitään mutta tää että oikeisto on voitolla johtuu:
Siinä missä vasemmistolaisen pitää nykyään rikkoa näyteikkuna herättääkseen pahennusta (tylsää!), on oikeisto paljon vahvemmassa asemassa. Oikeistolla on nyt ajatuksia, joiden ajattelusta on tulossa rikoksia. Oikeistolainen voi twiitata itselleen potkut helposti vain sanomalla jonkun mielipiteensä. Vasemmistolaiset eivät enää pysty tähän. Se mikä olisi vielä 1960-luvulla vienyt vasurin putkaan, vie hänet tänä päivänä suoraan lainvalmistelijaksi.
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Noinhan se on. Suomessakin.
 
PekkaSavo kirjoitti:
En tunne kirjoittajaa, en arvaile mitään mutta tää että oikeisto on voitolla johtuu:


Noinhan se on. Suomessakin.
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Ihmisten mielipide muuttuu monestakin syystä ja siirtyminen tai oikeammin silmien avautuminen liberaalipunavihreiden nykypolitiikan kohdalla voi olla joskus pienestä kiinnni, itselläni se tapahtui kun sain ilmaismatkan banaanisaarille.

Jäin miettimään mikä on sellainen ideologia joka yrittää kieltää mielipiteet ja olenko sittenkin väärässä kun yritin olla "hyvä tuontipatrirootti" ja mietinnän tuloksena menin mukaan Presidentti Trumpin kamppaniaan ja sillä tiellä ollaan yhä ja se ratkaisu oli todellinen onnenpotku minulle henkilökohtaisesti ja siitä kiitos kun saitte minun silmäni avutumaan ja Presidentti Trumpin valinta oli pelastus Amerikalle ja 2020 häämöttää edessä.
 
PekkaSavo kirjoitti:
Onkos mitään faktaa siitä miten paljon hän valehteli ja "valehteli" nuoruudessaan?

On tullut nimittäin seurattua alkavaan dementiaan sairastuneita
ja heitäkin on sanottu ... valehtelijoiksi ja hulluiksikin..

Miten herran käytös on muuttunut kun ikää on tullut? Jos on muuttunut?

Keittiöpsykologit nyt on mitä on.
Ja psykologeista ei ole lääkäreiksi.
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On kai ''valehdellu'' joitain vuosia sittenkin! :D

Pistetään vielä toinenkin:

Muisti reistailee? :D
 
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Nunes to send eight criminal referrals to DOJ concerning leaks, conspiracy amid Russia probe.

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House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes exclusively told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he is preparing to send eight criminal referrals to the Department of Justice this week concerning alleged misconduct from "Watergate wannabes" during the Trump-Russia investigation, including the leaks of "highly classified material" and conspiracies to lie to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.
Five of them are what I would call straight up referrals -- so just referrals that name someone and name the specific crimes," Nunes told Maria Bartiromo. "Those crimes are lying to Congress, misleading Congress, leaking classified information. So five of them are those types."
Nunes added: "There are three [referrals] that I think are more complicated. ... So on the first one, is FISA abuse and other matters. We believe there was a conspiracy to lie to the FISA court, mislead the FISA court by numerous individuals that all need to be investigated and looked at that, and we believe the [relevant] statute is the conspiracy statute. The second conspiracy one is involving manipulation of intelligence that also could ensnarl many Americans
Nunes asserted that "we've had a lot of concerns with the way intelligence was used" during the Trump-Russia probe.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nu...concerning-leaks-conspiracy-amid-russia-probe
 
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Tästä se lähtee.

Nunes to send eight criminal referrals to DOJ concerning leaks, conspiracy amid Russia probe.

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House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes exclusively told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he is preparing to send eight criminal referrals to the Department of Justice this week concerning alleged misconduct from "Watergate wannabes" during the Trump-Russia investigation, including the leaks of "highly classified material" and conspiracies to lie to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.
Five of them are what I would call straight up referrals -- so just referrals that name someone and name the specific crimes," Nunes told Maria Bartiromo. "Those crimes are lying to Congress, misleading Congress, leaking classified information. So five of them are those types."
Nunes added: "There are three [referrals] that I think are more complicated. ... So on the first one, is FISA abuse and other matters. We believe there was a conspiracy to lie to the FISA court, mislead the FISA court by numerous individuals that all need to be investigated and looked at that, and we believe the [relevant] statute is the conspiracy statute. The second conspiracy one is involving manipulation of intelligence that also could ensnarl many Americans
Nunes asserted that "we've had a lot of concerns with the way intelligence was used" during the Trump-Russia probe.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nu...concerning-leaks-conspiracy-amid-russia-probe
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Näin se on veljet, seuraavat vuodet katselemme demareiden Via Dolorosaa ja näemme toteutuvan sen vanhan viisauden jos politiikkoa virassaolessaan ylistetään kuten Presidentti Obaman kohdalla tapahtui, niin virkakaudenjälkeen halveksitaan.
 
Suomalaisten olisi kannattanut käyttää nämä reilut parivuotta Presidentti Trumpin haukkumisen sijaan, energiansa sen pohtimiseen miksi Suomen ulkopoliittinen johto on saanut varsin erilaisen kohtelun Washingtonissa kuin naapurimaiden johto on saanut, Yhdysvaltojen Presidenteistä riippumatta ja Suomen johtajien ja hallitusten vaihtumisesta huolimatta.

Miettiä kannattaa myös miksi Presidenti Halonen ei saanut kutsua Washingtoniin, aluksi syyksi Presidentti Halosen esikunta väitti että Presidentti Bush ei kutsunut koska oli poliittisia erimielisyyksiä ja kyllä Presidentti Obama kutsuu, ei kutsunut?

Sama koskee myös Ulkoministeri Erkki Tuomiojaa jolle annettiin aikaa vain se mikä kuuluu yleiseen diplomattiseen kohteliaisuuteen.

Kun vertailette Suomen naapureiden samaa huomiota Washingtonissa ja kutsujen tasoa ja määrää Suomalaisten politiikkojen vierailujen tasoon ja määrään Washingtonissa niin huomaatte että on olemassa joku syy miksi Suomalaiset saavat enemmän kutsuja Moskovaan kuin naapurimaat ja silloin selviää teille mikä on syy Washingtonin kutsujen olleen vain diplomatian minimitasoa.

Kun juoksette Presidentti Trumpin vastaisen poliittisen propagandan perässä niin saatatte jäkikäteen huomata että "apinaa koijataan"
 
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Kirstjen Nielsen, kotimaan turvallisuudesta vastaava ministeri erosi. Syynä Trumpin turhautuminen häneen sillä Nielsen ei innostunut mm. rajanylityspaikkojen sulkemisesta ja turvapaikanhakijoiden maahan saapumisen estämisestä.
Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, resigned on Sunday after meeting with President Trump, ending a tumultuous tenure in charge of the border security agency that had made her the target of the president’s criticism.

“I have determined that it is the right time for me to step aside,” Ms. Nielsen said in a resignation letter. “I hope that the next secretary will have the support of Congress and the courts in fixing the laws which have impeded our ability to fully secure America’s borders and which have contributed to discord in our nation’s discourse.”

Ms. Nielsen had requested the meeting to plan “a way forward” at the border, in part thinking she could have a reasoned conversation with Mr. Trump about the role, according to three people familiar with the meeting. She came prepared with a list of things that needed to change to improve the relationship with the president.

Mr. Trump in recent weeks had asked Ms. Nielsen to close the ports of entry along the border and to stop accepting asylum seekers, which Ms. Nielsen found ineffective and inappropriate. While the 30-minute meeting was cordial, Mr. Trump was determined to ask for her resignation. After the meeting, she submitted it.

The move comes just two days after Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly expressed anger at a rise in migrants at the southwestern border, withdrew his nominee to run Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he wanted the agency to go in a “tougher” direction.

Mr. Trump has ratcheted up his anti-immigration message in recent months as he seeks to galvanize supporters before the 2020 election, shutting down the government and then declaring a national emergency to secure funding to build a border wall, cutting aid to Central American countries and repeatedly denouncing what he believes is a crisis of migrants trying to enter the country.

He took aim again Sunday night after announcing Ms. Nielsen’s departure, tweeting, “Our Country is FULL!”

Ms. Nielsen said she planned “to stay on as secretary through Wednesday” in order “to assist with an orderly transition.” The abruptness was unusual because the Department of Homeland Security currently does not have a deputy secretary, who would normally take the reins.

The president said in a tweet that Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, would take over as the acting replacement for Ms. Nielsen, who became the sixth secretary to lead the agency in late 2017. But by law, the under secretary for management, Claire Grady, who is currently serving as acting deputy secretary, is next in line to be acting secretary. The White House will have to fire her to make Mr. McAleenan acting secretary, people familiar with the transition said. Ms. Grady has told colleagues that she has no intention of resigning to make way for Mr. McAleenan.

Among the possible replacements for Ms. Nielsen in the long term is Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general who is a favorite among conservative activists and who fits the profile that Mr. Trump wants the next homeland secretary to have, people familiar with the discussions said.

Ms. Nielsen had been pressured by Mr. Trump to be more aggressive in stemming the influx of migrant crossings at the border, people familiar with their discussions in recent months said.

Her entire time in the job was spent batting back suspicion from the president, even as he told people he liked how she performed on television and enjoyed dealing with her personally. He initially was skeptical because of Ms. Nielsen’s previous service in the George W. Bush administration, and then because she was close to John F. Kelly, Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff.

The president called Ms. Nielsen at home early in the mornings to demand that she take action to stop migrants from entering the country, including doing things that were clearly illegal, such as blocking all migrants from seeking asylum. She repeatedly noted the limitations imposed on her department by federal laws, court settlements and international obligations.

Those responses only infuriated Mr. Trump further. The president’s fury erupted in the spring of 2018 as Ms. Nielsen hesitated for weeks about whether to sign a memo ordering the routine separation of migrant children from their families so that the parents could be detained.

In a cabinet meeting surrounded by her peers, Mr. Trump castigated her repeatedly, leading her to draft a resignation letter and to tell colleagues that there was no reason for her to lead the department any longer. By the end of the week, she had reconsidered and remained in her position, becoming an increasingly fierce supporter of his policies, including the family separations.

Mr. Trump and Stephen Miller, the president’s top immigration adviser, have privately but regularly complained about Ms. Nielsen. Lou Dobbs, a Fox News host who is one of the president’s favorite sounding boards, has also encouraged Mr. Trump’s negative views of her handling of the migrant crisis.

Ms. Nielsen lost a powerful protector when Mr. Kelly, her mentor, left his job as White House chief of staff at the beginning of the year. Mr. Kelly was the Trump administration’s first homeland security secretary and lobbied for Ms. Nielsen to replace him.

Multiple White House officials said she had grown deeply paranoid in recent months, after numerous stories about her job being on the line. She also had supported the Immigration and Customs Enforcement nominee Mr. Trump withdrew, Ronald D. Vitiello, and her support for him was described as problematic for her with the president. Mr. Trump felt Mr. Vitiello did not favor closing the border, as the president threatened again to do in a tweet on Sunday night.

In early 2019, as the number of migrant families from Central American countries surged, the president’s fury at Ms. Nielsen did, too. He repeatedly demanded that she cut off foreign aid to Central American countries even though the funding was the responsibility of the State Department. She repeatedly deflected his demands.

One day after Ms. Nielsen traveled to Honduras to sign a regional compact with officials from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Mr. Trump cut State Department funding for the countries. And in recent days, the president made public moves to undercut her authority, leaking news that he might nominate an “immigration czar” to assume oversight of the issue at the heart of Ms. Nielsen’s department.

Still, Ms. Nielsen embraced the president’s “crisis” language as apprehensions of migrants at the border shot up to thousands per day. On Friday, Mr. Trump traveled with Ms. Nielsen and Mr. McAleenan to Calexico, Calif., to highlight the issue.

While the number of border crossings is not as high as in the early 2000s, the demographic of migrants has shifted largely from individual Mexicans looking for jobs — who could easily be deported — to Central American families, overwhelming detention facilities and prompting mass releases of migrants into cities along the border.

Ms. Nielsen estimated last month that border officials had stopped as many as 100,000 migrants in March.

ut despite the trip and several stories about how much better her relationship with Mr. Trump was, Ms. Nielsen never learned how to manage him, people familiar with their discussions said. He often felt lectured to by Ms. Nielsen, the people familiar with the discussions said.

And his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was not an admirer of Ms. Nielsen, several administration officials said. That came to a head recently as Mr. Kushner had inserted himself into immigration discussions.

While Mr. Trump often blamed Ms. Nielsen for the surge in migrant crossings, she will be remembered for leading the department during the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy along the southwestern border, which initially resulted in the separation of thousands of migrant children from their families.

An intense backlash ensued, and the Department of Homeland Security was unprepared to deal with separating nearly 3,000 children from their parents.

“Hampered by misstep after misstep, Kirstjen Nielsen’s tenure at the Department of Homeland Security was a disaster from the start,” said Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and the chairman of the House’s committee on Homeland Security. “It is clearer now than ever that the Trump administration’s border security and immigration policies — that she enacted and helped craft — have been an abysmal failure and have helped create the humanitarian crisis at the border.”

Mr. Trump eventually moved to halt the family separations, though the government struggled in some cases to reunite those it had already separated.

By naming Mr. McAleenan acting secretary, Mr. Trump is installing another veteran of previous administrations, not a loyal foot soldier of Mr. Trump’s campaign.

Married to a Salvadoran immigrant, Mr. McAleenan is a lawyer who wrote an honors thesis at Amherst College on marriage equality and applied at the F.B.I. after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Described by colleagues as a savvy political operator, Mr. McAleenan worked cooperatively with Obama administration officials but later embraced Mr. Trump’s agenda, which included unshackling Border Patrol agents from restrictions that the previous administration had imposed.

Mr. McAleenan was also one of three Department of Homeland Security officials who had urged Ms. Nielsen to sign the memo authorizing the routine separation of migrant families at the border.

The department, which has a budget of more than $40 billion and more than 240,000 employees, is an amalgam of 22 government agencies that was created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It is responsible for everything from protecting the nation from cyberattacks to responding to natural disasters.

At 46, Ms. Nielsen was the youngest person to lead the sprawling department, and an unlikely choice for the job.

In the months immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, she helped set up the Transportation Security Administration, now an agency within the department. She also worked as a special assistant to President George W. Bush on natural disaster response while serving on the White House Homeland Security Council.

When Mr. Trump moved Mr. Kelly to the White House in July 2017, Ms. Nielsen moved with him. As the principal deputy chief of staff, she enforced Mr. Kelly’s attempts to regulate access to Mr. Trump in the Oval Office, including the president’s schedule — irritating White House staff members, who complained she was uncompromising.

Mr. Kelly later backed Ms. Nielsen to succeed him at the Homeland Security Department, though she was criticized as too inexperienced for the job by Democrats and anti-immigration groups. Mr. Trump, however, said she was “ready on Day 1.”

“There will be no on-the-job training for Kirstjen,” Mr. Trump said in October 2017, announcing her nomination for the post.

But by the following spring, Ms. Nielsen was telling associates she was miserable in the job.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/politics/kirstjen-nielsen-dhs-resigns.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
 
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Kirstjen Nielsenin johtaman kotimaan turvallisuudesta vastaavan ministeriön alainen salaisen palvelun johtaja Randolph Alles on puolestaan erotettu seuraavaksi.

Trump on käyttänyt ilmaisua, että hänen hallintonsa pyörii kuin "fine tuned machine".

Ehkä se pitää paikkansa. Aika paljon vain tuntuu jäävän porukkaa koneiston hammasrattaiden väliin.
 
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Kirstjen Nielsenin johtaman kotimaan turvallisuudesta vastaavan ministeriön alainen salaisen palvelun johtaja Randolph Alles on puolestaan erotettu seuraavaksi.

Trump on käyttänyt ilmaisua, että hänen hallintonsa pyörii kuin "fine tuned machine".

Ehkä se pitää paikkansa. Aika paljon vain tuntuu jäävän porukkaa koneiston hammasrattaiden väliin.
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Alles taitaa olla jo viides kentsu jolle tulee lähtö koneistosta
 
Mustaruuti kirjoitti:
Kirstjen Nielsenin johtaman kotimaan turvallisuudesta vastaavan ministeriön alainen salaisen palvelun johtaja Randolph Alles on puolestaan erotettu seuraavaksi.

Trump on käyttänyt ilmaisua, että hänen hallintonsa pyörii kuin "fine tuned machine".

Ehkä se pitää paikkansa. Aika paljon vain tuntuu jäävän porukkaa koneiston hammasrattaiden väliin.
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Alles taitaa olla jo viides kentsu jolle tulee lähtö koneistosta
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Niellesenin ja Allesin kohdalla tehtävista luopumisen syy on kuitenkin se että Kiinalainen agentti oli lähellä päästä Presidentin Golf klubiin sisälle mukakanaan muunmuassa muistitikkuja jotka sisälsi haittaohjelmia, tämän aakkosmedia ja liberaalivihervasemmisto jätti sanomatta.
 
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Kirstjen Nielsen, kotimaan turvallisuudesta vastaava ministeri erosi. Syynä Trumpin turhautuminen häneen sillä Nielsen ei innostunut mm. rajanylityspaikkojen sulkemisesta ja turvapaikanhakijoiden maahan saapumisen estämisestä.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/politics/kirstjen-nielsen-dhs-resigns.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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Viimeiset parivuotta voidaan tiivistää aakkosmedian uutisoinnista tähän.
Ja kukahan se sanoi että kun valhetta toistaa tarpeeksi niin se muuttuu todeksi, sehän taisi olla itse natzi Joseph Goebbels


Presidentti Reaganin analyysi ja ennustus joka oli lähes toteutua, onneksi me heräsimme ja äänestimme oikein ja nyt näyttää Europpakin heräävän
 
Yhdellä kiinalaisella on iso vaikutus. Sisäisen turvallisuuden virastossa nimittäin tuulee.

Claire Grady, the acting Homeland Security Department deputy secretary, has offered to resign.
 
Valkoinen talo yritti saada maahanmuuttoviranomaiset (ICE ja DHS) kuskaamaan säilöönotettuja siirtolaisia poliittisten vastustajien kuten Nancy Pelosin vaalipiireihin. Stephen Miller yritti painostaa viranomaisia suunnitelman toteuttamiseen mutta ICE ilmoitti pyynnön olevan epäsopiva ja vailla laillista perustetta.
White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump’s political adversaries, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and email messages reviewed by The Washington Post.

Trump administration officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months — once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S. southern border, and again in February, amid a standoff with Democrats over funding for Trump’s border wall.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco was among those the White House wanted to target, according to DHS officials. The administration also considered releasing detainees in other Democratic strongholds.

White House officials first broached the plan in a Nov. 16 email, asking officials at several agencies whether members of the caravan could be arrested at the border and then bused “to small- and mid-sized sanctuary cities,” places where local authorities have refused to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation.

The White House told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the plan was intended to alleviate a shortage of jail space but also served to send a message to Democrats. The attempt at political retribution raised alarm within ICE, with a top official responding that it was rife with budgetary and liability concerns, and noting that “there are PR risks as well.”

After the White House pressed again in February, ICE’s legal department rejected the idea as inappropriate and rebuffed the administration.

A White House official and a spokesman for DHS sent nearly identical statements to The Post on Thursday, indicating that the proposal is no longer under consideration.

“This was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected, which ended any further discussion,” the White House statement said.

Pelosi’s office blasted the plan.

“The extent of this administration’s cynicism and cruelty cannot be overstated,” said Pelosi spokeswoman Ashley Etienne. “Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable.”

President Trump has made immigration a central aspect of his administration, and he has grown increasingly frustrated at the influx of migrants from Central America. He often casts them as killers and criminals who threaten U.S. security, pointing to cases in which immigrants have killed U.S. citizens — including a notable case on a San Francisco pier in 2015. And he has railed against liberal sanctuary city policies, saying they endanger Americans.

“These outrageous sanctuary cities are grave threats to public safety and national security,” Trump said on Dec. 7, in a speech to the Safe Neighborhoods Conference in Kansas City, Mo., less than a month after the White House asked ICE about moving detainees to such cities. “Each year, sanctuary cities release thousands of known criminal aliens from their custody and right back into the community. So they put them in, and they have them, and they let them go, and it drives you people a little bit crazy, doesn’t it, huh?”

The White House believed it could punish Democrats — including Pelosi — by busing ICE detainees into their districts before their release, according to two DHS whistleblowers who independently reported the busing plan to Congress. One of the whistleblowers spoke with The Washington Post, and several DHS officials confirmed the accounts. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller discussed the proposal with ICE, according to two DHS officials. Matthew Albence, who is ICE’s acting deputy director, immediately questioned the proposal in November and later circulated the idea within his agency when it resurfaced in February, seeking the legal review that ultimately doomed the proposal. Miller and Albence declined to comment Thursday.

Miller’s name did not appear on any of the documents reviewed by The Post. But as White House senior adviser on immigration policy, officials at ICE understood that he was pressing the plan.

Trump has been demanding aggressive action to deal with the surge of migrants, and many of his administration’s proposals have been blocked in federal court or, like the family separation policy last year, backfired as public relations disasters.

Homeland Security officials said the sanctuary city request was unnerving, and it underscores the political pressure Trump and Miller have put on ICE and other DHS agencies at a time when the president is furious about the biggest border surge in more than a decade.

“It was basically an idea that Miller wanted that nobody else wanted to carry out,” said one congressional investigator who has spoken to one of the whistleblowers. “What happened here is that Stephen Miller called people at ICE, said if they’re going to cut funding you’ve got to make sure you’re releasing people in Pelosi’s district and other congressional districts.” The investigator spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the whistleblower.

The idea of releasing immigrants into sanctuary cities was not presented to Ronald Vitiello, the agency’s acting director, according to one DHS official familiar with the plan. Last week the White House rescinded Vitiello’s nomination to lead ICE, giving no explanation, and Vitiello submitted his resignation Wednesday, ending his 30-year-career.

The day after Vitiello’s nomination was rescinded, President Trump told reporters the following day he wanted to put someone “tougher” at ICE. DHS officials said they do not know whether ICE’s refusal to adopt the White House’s plan contributed to Vitiello’s removal. His departure puts Albence in charge of the agency as of Friday.

The White House proposal reached ICE first in November as a highly publicized migrant caravan was approaching the United States. May Davis, deputy assistant to the president and deputy White House policy coordinator, wrote to officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, ICE, and the Department of Homeland Security with the subject line: “Sanctuary City Proposal.”

“The idea has been raised by 1-2 principals that, if we are unable to build sufficient temporary housing, that caravan members be bussed to small- and mid-sized sanctuary cities,” Davis wrote, seeking responses to its operational and legal viability. “There is NOT a White House decision on this.”

Albence replied that such a plan “would create an unnecessary operational burden” on an already strained organization and raised concerns about its appropriateness, writing: “Not sure how paying to transport aliens to another location to release them — when they can released on the spot — is a justified expenditure. Not to mention the liability should there be an accident along the way.”

The White House pushed the issue a second time in the midst of the budget standoff in mid-February, according to DHS officials, and on the heels of a bitterly partisan 35-day government shutdown over Trump’s border wall plan. The White House discussed the immigrant release idea as a way to punish Democrats standing in the way of funding additional detention beds.

ICE detainees with violent criminal records are not typically released on bond or other “alternatives to detention” while they await a hearing with an immigration judge, but there have been instances of such detainees being released.

The White House urged ICE to channel releases to sanctuary districts, regardless of whether immigrants had any ties to those places.

“It was retaliation, to show them, ‘Your lack of cooperation has impacts,’ ” said one of the DHS officials, summarizing the rationale. “I think they thought it would put pressure on those communities to understand, I guess, a different perspective on why you need more immigration money for detention beds.”

Senior officials at ICE did not take the proposal seriously at first, but as the White House exerted pressure, ICE’s legal advisers were asked to weigh in, DHS officials said.

A formal legal review was never completed, according to two DHS officials familiar with the events, and senior ICE attorneys told Albence and others that the plan was inappropriate and lacked a legal basis.

“If we would have done that, we would have had to expend transportation resources, and make a decision that we’re going to use buses, planes, etc. to send these aliens to a place for whatever reason,” a senior DHS official said. “We had to come up with a reason, and we did not have one.”

The proposal faded when House Democrats ultimately relented on their demand for a decrease in the number of detention beds, a final sticking point in budget talks between the White House and House Democrats.

The number of immigrant detainees in ICE custody has approached 50,000 in recent months, an all-time high that has further strained the agency’s budget. Those include immigrants arrested in the U.S. interior, as well as recent border-crossers transferred from U.S. Border Patrol. With unauthorized migration at a 12-year-high, the vast majority of recent migrants — and especially those with children — are quickly processed and released with a notice to appear in court, a system that Trump has derided as “catch and release.”

The process has left Trump seething, convinced that immigration officials and DHS more broadly should adopt a harsher approach.

Vitiello’s removal from ICE last week was followed Sunday by the ouster of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who lost favor with Trump and Miller by repeatedly warning the White House that the administration’s policy ideas were unworkable and likely to be blocked by federal courts.

The sanctuary city proposal ran contrary to ICE policy guidelines, as well as legal counsel. ICE officials balked at the notion of moving migrants to detention facilities in different areas, insisting that Congress only authorizes the agency to deport immigrants, not relocate them internally, according to DHS officials.

The plan to retaliate against sanctuary cities came just after Trump agreed to reopen the government in late January, following a five-week-long shutdown over wall funding. The president gave lawmakers three weeks to come up with a plan to secure the border before a second fiscal deadline in mid-February.

During the talks, Republicans and Democrats sparred over the number of detention beds, with House Democrats pressing for a lower number amid pressure from their left flank.

It was during that mid-February standoff that one whistleblower came to Congress alleging that the White House was considering a plan to punish Democrats if they did not relent on ICE funding for beds. A second official independently came forward after that.

According to both, there were at least two versions of the plan being considered. One was to move migrants who were already in ICE detention to the districts of Democratic opponents. The second option was to bus migrants apprehended at the border to sanctuary cities, such as New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
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