Day 388: Trump’s DACA Claims Defy Belief

Donald Trump loves to tweet about DACA, generally blaming Democrats for one thing or another regarding the policy.

Saturday afternoon, he threw out an all-time whopper.

Trump’s tweet is wrong in so many patently obvious ways.

1. The Democrats controlled all three branches of government in 2009 and 2010, not 2008 (George W. Bush was president) or 2011 (Republicans had a House majority).
2. DACA did not become policy until 2012.
3. Donald Trump repealed that policy, with recipients beginning to lose status on March 5.
4. A solution for DACA recipients is favored by almost every member of the Democratic caucus, and by fewer than half of the GOP caucus, hence why it has not been brought up to vote. (House Republicans adhere to the “Hastert Rule” — named after former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, who a federal judge once called a “serial child molester” — where the Speaker of the House will not allow a vote to come to the floor unless a majority of Republicans approve it.)

DACA is a problem for Republicans as the mid-terms near, as finding a solution for its recipients is overwhelmingly favored by Americans. Trump, after creating the problem, can’t just pass the blame to Democrats, no matter how hard he tries.

388 days in, 1074 to go

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