NCS anchor Kaitlan Collins pulled some video receipts on Wednesday of then-future President Donald Trump repeatedly arguing that “the president” ought to bear the blame if there’s a authorities shutdown.
Amid a government shutdown that started this week, Trump and the Republicans have tried to position blame for the standoff on Democrats with the declare — ruled false by quite a few fact-checkers — that the social gathering is holding out in an effort to “give all these illegal aliens free health care.”
Democrats have blamed Trump as a result of he and his social gathering management the White House and each chambers of Congress.
On Wednesday evening’s edition of NCS’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins reminded GOP analyst Scott Jennings and Democratic analyst Karen Finney of the quite a few instances Trump has beforehand agreed that presidents shoulder the blame if there’s a shutdown:
COLLINS: Scott, one factor that individuals have been reminding me of at present is what President Trump himself used to say earlier than he was president, about what occurs when there’s a authorities shutdown.
Listen to him in his personal phrases.
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TRUMP: I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I truly suppose the president could be blamed. If there’s a shutdown, and it’s not going to be a horrible shutdown as a result of, as you already know, issues will kind of preserve rolling–
MEREDITH VIEIRA, AMERICAN BROADCASTER: Well, it was a partial shutdown. Right.
TRUMP: But if there’s a shutdown, I believe it could be a tremendously destructive mark on the President of the United States. He’s the one which has to get individuals collectively.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who’s going to bear the brunt of the accountability if certainly there’s a — is shutdown of our authorities?
TRUMP: Well, if you say who will get fired, it all the time needs to be the highest. I imply, issues begin from the highest, and so they should get solved from the highest. And the president’s the chief, and he’s acquired to get all people in a room, and he’s acquired to guide.
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