Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff: on Immigration

Donald Trump: H-1B visas help high-tech industry; we'll figure it out

On December 14, a high-level delegation from Silicon Valley came to Trump Tower to meet the president-elect, though Trump had repeatedly criticized the tech industry throughout the campaign. Later that afternoon, Trump called Rupert Murdoch, who asked him how the meeting had gone.

"Oh, great, just great," said Trump. "Really, really good. These guys really need my help. Obama was not very favorable to them, too much regulation. This is really an opportunity for me to help them."

"Donald," said Murdoch, "for eight years these guys had Obama in their pocket. They practically ran the administration. They don't need your help."

"Take this H-1B visa issue. They really need these H-1B visas."

Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas might be hard to square with his immigration promises. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring Murdoch, "We'll figure it out."

Source: Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff, p. 36 Jan 5, 2018

Donald Trump: OpEd: early signs by 2008 of immigration resentment

It was out of some instinctive or idiot-savant-like political understanding that Trump had made this issue his own, frequently observing, "Wasn't anybody an American anymore?" In some of his earliest political outings, even before Obama's election in 2008, Trump talked with bewilderment and resentment about strict quotas on European immigration and the deluge from "Asia and other places." (This deluge, as liberals would be quick to fact-check, was, even as it had grown, still quite a modest stream.) His obsessive focus on Obama's birth certificate was in part about the scourge of non-European foreignness--a certain race-baiting. "Who were these people? Why were they here?" Source: Fire And Fury, by Michael Wolff, p. 62 Jan 5, 2018

Donald Trump: FactCheck: "Fire and Fury" ignored Trump's 2000 book

FactCheck on Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury": There is such a political storm over this book that OnTheIssues must point out Wolff's shallowness on the issues. A prime example is Wolff's analysis of Trump's core immigration stance. On page 62, Wolff asserts that Trump expressed "bewildered resentment" of immigrants "in some of his earliest political outings, even before 2008."

Wolff evidently is unaware that Trump wrote a policy book in 2000, The America We Deserve, in his run for the Reform Party presidential nomination. Trump fully laid out his immigration stance: America first; make legal immigration hard; control borders against illegal immigrants.

Trump has no bewilderment; you might disagree with Trump's stances, but they have remained unchanged for 18 years now. Wolff is particularly wrong in characterizing Trump's "earliest political outings" as around 2008--Trump was fully engaged in 2000. But people like Wolff weren't listening then!

Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on "Fire And Fury, by Michael Wolff" Jan 5, 2018

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