Quote of the Week

"What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country, Bush the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I’m gonna do the same thing."

-- Donald Trump, apparently complimenting Barack Obama's record on deportation while simultaneously trying to soften his own position on illegal immigration.

What I particularly love about this quote is the "what people don't know" language.  The reason people don't know that Obama "got tremendous numbers of people out of the country" is that the GOP, including Trump, have been lying about Obama's record on immigration for many years now.

Trump has done this type of thing before.  For example, Donald has attacked the GOP mythology regarding George W. Bush and the 9-11 Attacks.  As far as most Republicans are concerned, George W. Bush wasn't even president on September 11, 2001. But last October, Trump set the record straight by stating "[w]hen you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time."

But what makes Trump's admission about Obama's deportation successes more interesting is that Donald, in praising Obama's efforts along these lines, is directly undercutting the one thing that got him the GOP nomination in the first place, namely, his over-the-top positions on illegal Mexican immigrants and the need to deport every last one of them. I can't wait to see how Trump's white nationalist supporters will react to this change of heart.