Attacking Trump means defending Biden’s failures



The memo appears to have gone out, and the legacy media has pivoted in unison to launch a new line of attack against the incoming Trump administration. The key buzzword is “cruel.”

Don’t let the gaslighting fool you. When they attack Trump’s reforms, they defend the policies he intends to reverse — policies that showcase the left’s real cruelty and moral emptiness.

The left cannot claim the moral high ground here. The Biden administration’s policies caused far more suffering than anything seen under Trump.

Consider immigration. Left-leaning outlets are reviving claims of cruelty over Trump’s “family separation” policy during his first term.

“Migrant families separated under Trump still feel the fallout and they fear his return to office,” the Associated Press reported.

And MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow summed up the left’s new attack, calling Trump's policies a “chaotic, intentionally cruel mess.”

Yet a “chaotic, intentionally cruel mess” more appropriately describe Joe Biden’s border policies that Maddow and others on the left are defending by default.

The truth is that the Biden administration is still separating families at the border, continuing the Trump practice. According to a new report to Congress, “298 children were separated from their parents in 2023,” even though border crossings had begun to trend down.

As the Biden administration tried to avoid bad publicity over children in detention “cages,” it ignored the trafficking of those same children. It admitted thousands into the country and released them to anyone who claimed them. Officials then lost track of 300,000 children, many of whom ended up in horrific labor conditions — and it gets worse.

“Forced labor, bad as it is, may not be the worst fate these children face,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). “They’re recruited into gangs, sex trafficked, and abused, while the Biden administration has no idea where they are or what’s happening to them. This is a tragedy, and the blame falls on President Biden.”

The left cannot claim the moral high ground here. The Biden administration’s policies caused far more suffering than anything seen under Trump, effectively handing control of the border to criminal cartels that “tax” anyone trying to cross.

“Rape is part of the torture process to get the money,” the New York Times reported last year.

As my colleague Melissa Ford testified before Congress:

Rape, assault, and sexual slavery are everyday life for the women and children who attempt to cross. In our investigations, we have conducted interviews with Border Patrol agents and engaged with individuals involved in supporting and safeguarding female migrants. They estimate that an overwhelming majority of female migrants face some form of sexual assault during their journey toward the U.S. Furthermore, they have alerted us to a concerning surge in instances of child sex trafficking.

Immigration and “mass deportations” may be the left’s central talking point in the coming months, but don’t expect them to ignore abortion — long viewed as their cherished “sacrament.” They won’t mention the lives saved.

Slate warns of a “swift, brutal, and nationwide” crackdown on abortion, even though the U.S. Supreme Court returned the issue to the states and Trump has said he plans to keep it that way.

Meanwhile, Trump’s promise to end Social Security taxes is being framed as a cruel blow to the system, and his efforts to protect children from experimental “gender-affirming” treatments — including hormones and surgeries — are labeled “sinister” and “intolerable.”

The legacy media isn’t known for its originality; we’ve all seen those “Republicans pounce” headlines that ring out in unison when Democrats are caught doing something wrong.

Now, it’s becoming clear that the chorus for the next four years will be Trump’s “cruelty.” We can’t let the left forget the truth — Trump’s policies will make Americans safer, more secure, and more prosperous.

And in attacking Trump’s policies, the Democrats are implicitly defending the policies the American public roundly rejected on Nov. 5. Let’s not let them forget that, either.

Exclusive: Rep. Biggs presses Biden admin over auctioning border wall material



Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona and dozens of his House GOP colleagues pressed the Biden administration's decision to auction off unused border materials less than one month before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office, according to a letter Tuesday obtained exclusively by Blaze News.

After President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, his administration worked quickly to halt the construction of the border wall and to get rid of Trump's immigration policies. As a result, the Department of Defense began to auction border materials, a move that Biggs and his colleagues said "serves only as a legal gimmick" for Biden to prevent Trump from further securing the border.

'The fact that your administration has not done so after an election where the President-elect made clear his intention to erect more barriers shows a clear intention to inhibit your successor in accomplishing his stated goal of securing the border and stopping the largest flow of illegal immigration in American history.'

"These actions are tantamount to purposeful waste of government resources and are part of a deliberate effort to preemptively curtail the next administration on an issue which loomed large in the previous election," the letter reads.

"Since you took office, these border materials have sat idle just feet away from the border wall and the adjacent unfinished areas," the letter continued. "Every Border Patrol agent knows that the areas with the highest number of illegal crossings are where border construction immediately halted in January of 2021."

Since Biden took office, there have been nine million nationwide migrant encounters, over 7.4 million of which took place on the southern border alone.

"Since then, your administration has not expressed the intention to use the border materials for their purpose or create a plan to ensure homeland security at the border," the letter reads. "Instead, the American people have seen the number of illegal aliens entering the country skyrocket, including dramatic increases in convicted criminals and individuals on terror watchlists."

The letter also mentions that departments like the DOD could have reasonably opted to keep certain materials for incoming administrations "in the interest of government efficiency and budgetary constraints." Despite this, the Biden administration decided to sell the materials anyway.

"The fact that your administration has not done so after an election where the President-elect made clear his intention to erect more barriers shows a clear intention to inhibit your successor in accomplishing his stated goal of securing the border and stopping the largest flow of illegal immigration in American history," the letter reads.

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GOP Rep. Andy Biggs suggests how Trump can build the wall WITHOUT national emergency

In a Fox News interview Monday, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., predicted that Congress would not come to a deal on border security with wall funding by its February 15 deadline but suggested that President Trump may have a way to build the wall without Congress and without a national emergency declaration.

"It's gonna be pretty hard, quite frankly, because I think the Democrats ... they're really locked in. They don't want to put up any physical barrier," Biggs said.

"The president probably is going to have to declare that [the border] is an active drug trafficking corridor pursuant to Title 10 of U.S. code, and if so, he's going to have access to billions of dollars to build the wall, some roads, and infrastructure, I think."

Biggs is not referring to a national emergency declaration. Rather, as Conservative Review's Daniel Horowitz has written, he's talking about a section of law that would permit President Trump to construct roads and fences "to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States."

From Horowitz:

[Trump's] authority is even stronger in the field of combating drug smuggling, even without the declared health crisis. 10 U.S.C. § Section 284 allows the secretary of defense, upon request from federal or state law enforcement dealing with drug trafficking, and in conjunction with the secretary of state, to “provide support for the counterdrug activities or activities to counter transnational organized crime.” Subsection b(7) allows the DOD to provide help in the form of “construction of roads and fences and installation of lighting to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States.”

This is not some parsimonious loophole for an excuse to build a wall. This is the whole enchilada, folks. The main reason we need a wall is to combat the smugglers and the cartels who use the migration to bring in their contraband and dangerous criminals. Last October, the DOJ designated MS-13, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), Sinaloa Cartel, and Clan del Golfo as transnational crime organizations (TCOs).

Fox News' Shannon Bream moved on from this discussion, but it really ought to be the main focus of advocates for Trump's legal authority to build a wall. Many conservatives are concerned that declaring a national emergency to build the wall, though lawful, would set a precedent expanding executive power that a future Democratic administration could abuse. For example, some might warn, a future President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would declare a national emergency of global warming and usher in her Green New Deal socialist policies without Congress.

Using Title 10's statutory authority makes the point moot. Trump has the specific statutory power to deal with a specific problem on the border and to build border security infrastructure. No national emergency declaration necessary.

It's baffling that the administration is not taking this approach.

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No border, no wall, no United States at all? Here's what students had to say in Steven Crowder's latest 'Change my Mind'

BlazeTV host Steven Crowder has released his second "Build the Wall: Change My Mind" video, showing conversations with students at the University of Texas at Dallas as they talk through their opposition to a border wall.

These kids get points for honesty. One student told Crowder the United States shouldn't secure the border because the country shouldn't exist at all.

Another doesn't support spending $5.7 billion as a down payment for the wall and incidentally may have learned she's a "fiscal conservative."

A third student asked Crowder about deporting illegal immigrants, wondering why we would do that if it wasn't their "fault" they broke immigration laws. Some opponents of border security might not think illegal immigrants are doing anything wrong in the first place.

Check out the full video:

And don't miss the first video, where Crowder spoke with protesters who came to oppose him!

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Malkin: Border wall: Monument for the people, not pols

Profligate politicians have never met a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project they didn't like — except when it comes to President Donald Trump's border wall.

Think about it.

Boston's Big Dig black hole, the nation's most expensive highway project, burned through $25 billion and was plagued by deadly engineering incompetence, endless cost overruns, leaks, lawsuits and debt.

California's high-speed rail boondoggle is a $100 billion bullet train to nowhere. Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown promised a 2020 completion date for the miracle transportation system. The latest estimates predict it won't open until at least 2033, and the costs keep rising.

Seattle's ill-fated Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement topped out at $4 billion in local, state and federal funds for a two-mile bored road tunnel that will finally open next month — nearly four years behind schedule and hundreds of millions of dollars over budget.

What the Big Dig, bullet train boondoggle and Seattle squander all have in common is that political elites, lobbyists and corporate heavy-hitters trampled over grassroots citizen opposition to get their way. Too many government construction projects are built because these publicly subsidized gravy trains reward campaign donors, powerful public employee unions and assorted control freaks in the urban planning and transportation sectors.

Another glaring example? Across the country, voters have repeatedly rejected billion-dollar sports stadium and arena subsidies over the past 30 years — only to be sabotaged by bipartisan alliances overruling the will of the people. I used to run a watchdog website called "Porkwatch" filled with so many field-of-schemes case studies that I couldn't keep track of them anymore.

Then there are all the tax-funded highways, bridges, museums and other edifices glorifying Beltway swamp creatures. The infamous Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia steered billions of federal dollars back to his home state, where more than 50 government buildings bear his or his wife's name — not to mention an eponymous telescope, multiple libraries and "lifelong learning centers," wellness centers, industrial parks, community centers, gardens, interchanges, highways, expressways, bridges, locks and a dam. A bas-relief sculpture of the alpha porker greets visitors at the Byrd dam, deemed unnecessary by locals.

Not to be outdone, GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell has his own park; former Democratic Sen. John Dingell has his own transit center; the late Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg has his own rail station; tax cheat Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel has his own tax-funded "Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service" at the City College of New York; and the recently retired powerbroker Democratic Sen. Harry Reid sponsored billions of dollars in egotistical earmarks, including several million for a "research and technology park" named after him.

Was there a swell of grassroots support for all these vanity projects? Was there overwhelming demand for the 10,000th long and windy road named after some blowhard incumbent hack?

Wouldn't it be refreshing, for once, for the federal government to prioritize infrastructure that serves the national interest over special interests? And how about dedicating and consecrating this project in the memory of the thousands of Americans and law-abiding immigrants who have sacrificed their lives for our security? We've already got Adopt-a-Highway sponsors. Why not an Adopt-a-Wall program?

Open-borders academics and media propagandists keep lecturing that Americans don't want a wall. Yet, more than 325,000 citizens have raised $19.5 million in 22 days to fund the border that the Beltway obstinately refuses to fund.

President Trump's defining battle against the Beltway to fortify our borders — by concrete, steel, increased manpower, electronic surveillance, all of it —  isn't just about fulfilling a campaign promise. The wall is a necessary monument to sovereignty in a nation clogged with billions of dollars of worthless political monuments to Me, Me, Me.

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