President Trump’s Numbers Game
On <em>Face the Nation,</em> even Mick Mulvaney couldn’t say where his boss had come up with “25,772,342 illegal aliens” in America.
Exactly where President Donald Trump was getting the illegal-immigration numbers he tweeted on Sunday morning was anyone’s guess. His acting chief of staff, appearing a short while later on CBS’s , couldn’t say. But the timing of his tweets suggests a play to shore up support among hard-liners who have excoriated him for caving on Friday to Democrats and ending the partial government shutdown without securing a dollar for his wall along the southern border. Ann Coulter, Representative Steve King of Iowa, and other right-wing figures had blasted the president’s last week as “amnesty.” Perhaps, as
