Love affair with evil: Is the border crisis all about Donald Trump trying to win back Ann Coulter?

Trump keeps ramping up the hate and cruelty, and Coulter loves it. But she won’t be happy until she gets that wall!

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
JUNE 20, 2018 12:00PM (UTC)

Everyone likes to say that the people who go on Fox News really only have an audience of one --- the president. But when President Trump speaks about immigration, he only has an audience of one as well. A couple of months ago I wrote a column about the growing rift between Trump and his most ardent admirer, Ann Coulter. She has been very upset that he hasn't yet built the border wall he promised during the campaign. To her, and Trump supporters like her, that is the most important issue beyond all others.

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In that column I noted that Trump, his immigration adviser Stephen Miller also whispering in his ear, was starting to sweat. Two days later, he called for state governors to send National Guard troops to "protect the border."

Meanwhile, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been absorbing insult after insult from the president for his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation back in 2017, all so that he could fulfill their shared goal of closing the borders and deporting as many people as possible. Two days after Trump called out the Guard, Sessions distributed a new border policy requiring that anyone crossing the border illegally must be prosecuted:

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Essentially, he said that because Congress had failed to "fully fund" the wall, immigration had become a crisis. That was nonsense. The only crisis was that Ann Coulter was having a fit because Trump hadn't built it yet. And because she is not afraid of Trump, she was calling him out on a daily basis.

Homeland Security must have dragged its feet, because on April 26 ICE Director Thomas Homan, Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan sent a memo to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen telling her she needed to immediately detain and prosecute all parents with children resulting in the separation of families in order to send a message:

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