CNN’s Cuomo: Trump Fears ‘Retribution from the Rabid Right’ That He Will ‘Risk the Longest Shutdown Ever’

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TRUMP: "The USMCA, the new trade deal we have with Mexico and Canada, what we save on that, just with Mexico, will pay for the wall many times over."

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CUOMO: "So there’s that. We put that all to the side. The biggest price for the promise is seen clearly now because the President has chosen this fictitious fight over the wall over workers. Because he refuses to end the shutdown. You heard him today. Those are his words. The fears of retribution from the rabid right. He’s worried about that so much he’ll risk the longest shutdown ever, burdening people who need pay checks all over the country just to say he made good on a promise that was always pretend.”