Excerpt:
Some losing confidence in Trump
By Cliff Kincaid
December 13, 2018
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Consider that Trump has pressured Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to bring up for a vote a piece of liberal jailbreak legislation known as the First Step Act. It looks like he's trying to attract the felon vote that normally goes for the Democrats. CNN's Marxist commentator Van Jones is behind Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner on this one. In fact, Jones, a former activist with the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), looks like the one orchestrating the entire "empty the prisons"
effort.
For some reason, perhaps having to do with the inside-the-beltway desire to look fashionable, many Republican Senators are going along with the scam.
Time is of the essence, as responsible and thoughtful conservatives such as Senator Tom Cotton are fighting this bill right now. Cotton says one version of the bill reduced the penalty for trafficking fentanyl, a substance implicated in tens of thousands of opioid deaths.
Read more at: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/181213
I didn't know all of this about this prison bill and that Trump is for it. The article even goes on to say Van Jones was invited to the WH over this! I just posted an article on Cotton in the politics forum.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,344288.msg1870035/topicseen.html#msg1870035https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/dec/14/puzzled-allies-say-of-cotton-spurning-2/Not sure what to think, it sounds like even Mike Lee is for the bill and Cotton is largely alone in his objections.
It was Mike Lee whom about a month ago, Cotton had a bit of a twitter feud with over this bill:
https://www.mediaite.com/online/arepublicans-mike-lee-and-tom-cotton-go-to-war-on-twitter-everything-in-his-tweet-thread-is-100-fake-news/
