This President, and my friends on the other side who are refusing to rein him in because they are all afraid of him, is burning a billion dollars a day in taxpayer money on a war halfway around the world. One billion dollars a day. Let me repeat that: One billion dollars a day.
It's not just the solicitation email. I mean, last week we were talking about the video game analogies that they were making on social media about this war. And there's a kind of flippant nature to some of this. I mean, it was this is striking to me, the President took a phone call today from a reporter because apparently everybody in Washington has his personal cell phone number.
Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country.
Journalists have a right and a duty to report bad news and to question Pollyannaish reports from the U.S. government. But many seem to be going beyond that and rooting for America to lose—against an enemy that is the world's biggest state sponsor of terror, that has killed thousands of unarmed protesters, and that stockpiled thousands of ballistic missiles while seeking nuclear weapons, which its rulers promised to use against the U.S. and Israel.
Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. You understood that wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the previous lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.
In the long run, it's going to help us out, because if they get nuclear weapons, you know, we might not even be here in a couple of years. I think that [Trump's] done a good job. This sentiment reflects the perspective of voters willing to accept economic costs for perceived security benefits from military action against Iran.
Robinson's true identity was revealed after the Irving police released a bulletin for a car with stolen government plates. A Dallas officer noticed the vehicle in question while working a security job with Robinson six months prior. Dallas police attempted to pull Robinson over on Mar. 11, and Robinson fled before being rediscovered in a hospital parking garage.
We had, you remember the last few months of 2001 and virtually all of 2002 in order to make the case that action was needed against Iraq. We had time at the U.N, the U.N. resolution. We had an authorization for the use of force resolution before the Congress. So we were able to consciously, deliberately, and over a long course of time to lay out the case. That's not been the instance here.
Last fall, President Donald Trump's executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 - like many of his immigration policies - led to near-immediate chaos. Thousands of workers who had flown overseas to renew their visas ended up stranded abroad. Details about who would be affected only emerged after the fact.
