Trump Never Wanted To Make Speech And Doesn’t Want Border Trip, Says Maggie Haberman

Nick Givas on January 9, 2019

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump didn’t want to give an Oval Office speech on immigration and doesn’t want to visit the southern border.

She said on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that  Trump looked unnatural and uncomfortable without an actual audience in the room when he gave his address.

“What I was struck by watching this speech is I had heard from several sources throughout the day the president was really not that into doing this speech,” Haberman said.

“A lot of his advisers were. A lot of his friends on Capitol Hill thought he should do this. There is a reason he hasn’t done an address like this in the course of the last two years and it’s because he hasn’t wanted to. And I think you saw tonight why he hasn’t wanted to. It’s just not a natural setting for him and we didn’t hear a whole lot new.”

Haberman also said Republicans believe they’re up against the clock with the government shutdown and are losing the battle against Congressional Democrats. She also tweeted that Trump thinks a border visit would be a waste of time.

“They are privately well aware that they are running out of time,” she said. “We are on the verge of people missing their paychecks. They know that the tide’s going to turn. And it’s turning already but it’s going to move much faster after that happens. They are aware and they are hearing from moderate Republicans on the Hill that they are losing this battle. And so this was essentially a Hail Mary.”

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