{"id":11634,"date":"2019-01-24T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:52:37","slug":"why-trumps-immigration-compromise-is-a-shrewd-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/why-trumps-immigration-compromise-is-a-shrewd-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump&#8217;s immigration compromise is a shrewd move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump_compromise-1024x455.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump_compromise-1024x455.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump_compromise-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump_compromise-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trump_compromise.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>THE WEEK<\/strong>, by  Edward Morrissey &#8212; 1\/24\/2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For the past month, Democrats have insisted they will not negotiate  with President Trump while the government remains in partial shutdown.  The president has spent most of that time insisting he will not  negotiate on his demand for $5.7 billion in funding for the border wall.  As a result, the shutdown broke the previous service-gap record without  so much as a vote on alternatives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This week, however, the logjam may be slowly unwinding, and Trump might be able to take credit for ending the stalemate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It began with a surprising concession from the man who wrote The Art of the Deal  and who warned against making the first move in a negotiation. &#8220;The  worst thing you can possibly do in a deal,&#8221; Trump wrote at the time, &#8220;is  seem desperate to make it.&#8221; Any show of needing the deal more than  one&#8217;s opponents necessarily surrenders leverage, Trump explained in his  book.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View the complete article at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/819128\/why-trumps-immigration-compromise-shrewd-move\">https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/819128\/why-trumps-immigration-compromise-shrewd-move<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WEEK, by Edward Morrissey &#8212; 1\/24\/2019 Excerpt: For the past month, Democrats have insisted they will not negotiate with President Trump while the government remains in partial shutdown. The president has spent most of that time insisting he will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/why-trumps-immigration-compromise-is-a-shrewd-move\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11637,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions\/11637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}