Timothy Birdnow

This has to be the year's best article for Cognitive Dissonance and Trump Derangement! The title is a true work of art!

Trump threatens government shutdown unless debt limit demand met, blames Biden if it happens

Apparently the Christmas bonus Congress was giving to itself and the Democrats is kaput due to a rebellion in the ranks over the pork-laden spending spree negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

I've got news for the folks at ABC (who just paid out big bucks to Trump for defaming him):

1.Trump is not President and any "theats" he makes at this point are mere words.

2. If Trump "killed the spending bill" how did he do it? He has no vote. He is a private citizen at this point. All he could do is complain about it and ask House members to reject it.A

3. What Trump said was he did not want us to reach and surpass the debt limit. He warned we could slip into a recession if we do - and we shouldnt take the risk.

4. Trump is "putting the blame" on Biden they claim. Huh? He stated quite plainly he was FORCING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO DEAL WITH A FISCAL ISSUE DURING IT'S TENURE and not have it dumped on his incoming Administration. Biden has not and is not showing any sort of leadership here. It is his job, after all, and will be for a number of weeks to come.

5. A furlough of a couple of weeks for non-essential government workers (and if there are 'non essential' workers doesn't that suggest we don't need 'em in the first place?) is actually a nice Christmas gift for them. They will get back pay after the furlough.

5. Trump argues that a shutdown will be the Democrat's fault as they are the ones insisting on higher spending - and Biden will take the heat. He says:

"Shutdowns only inure to the person who's president," Trump said. "That's what I tried to teach [former House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy, but I obviously didn't do a very good job [with] a shutdown because he kept giving them extensions into my territory, a shutdown only hurts or inures to the person who happens to be president."

Well, who is threatening to shut the government down? Not the Republicans who are offering half a loaf anyway. So a shutdown is indeed the fault of the Democrats contrary to what ABC News believes.

BTW ABC isn't the only media outlet twisting a government shutdown to be Trump's fault. Here are a few headlines I found on a Google search:

Ap News - Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands

Reuters - Trump rejects bipartisan US spending bill, raising government shutdown risk

CNN - GOP scraps government funding bill after Trump demands changes

Al Jazeera - Facing government shutdown, Trump and Republican allies scuttle Spending Bill

NBC News - Trump opposes funding bill, pushing government closer to a shutdown

Notice how each of these lays the blame for any shutdown squarely on Trump, and says nothing, nothing, not one blasted thing, about the Democrats unwillingness to compromise with this.

The Democrats are the ones shutting it all down.

More proof the media is hopelessly biased and at the same time gaslights Americans repeatedly.

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