Statements by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

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MEMORANDUM

 

TO:  Interested Parties

 

FROM:  Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, Donald J. Trump for President 2024

 

In the last three weeks, polling from a variety of sources, each having a slightly different way of asking the head-to-head ballot question, have each shown the same troubling trend for Ron DeSantis: the complete collapse of his position in the GOP nomination for President, as well as his ability to defeat Joe Biden.

 

President Trump continues to grow his lead as more and more Americans from across the country are joining his effort to Make America Great Again. Voters recognize there is only one person who, ON DAY ONE, can fix the economy, secure our borders, restore respect for our country on the world stage, and deter the menacing threat that is China.

 

Recent national polling gives President Trump his widest margin yet over Ron DeSantis, trouncing DeSantis by 36 and 34 points according to  CBS News  and  Morning Consult .  Emerson  finds Trump beating DeSantis 62% to 16%, a 16-point swing towards Trump since February.  Fox News  shows Trump dominating DeSantis by 32 percent.  In the general election,  Rasmussen  shows President Trump with a commanding 7-point lead over Joe Biden — 48 to 41 percent and the most recent  Harvard/Harris Poll  has President Trump besting Joe Biden by 5.

 

Why should this trend be troubling for Team DeSantis and his affiliated Super PACs?

 

Because since April 11th -   Never Back Down  -  the primary DeSantis Super PAC has spent:

 

- Over $1 million on TV in Iowa

- Nearly $1 million on TV in New Hampshire

- Over $1.3 million on TV in South Carolina

- Over $500,000 on TV in Nevada

- Over $3.5 million on a national network cable buy

In total,  Never Back Down  has spent more than $7.2 million in TV ads over the last three weeks.

 

The $7.2 million doesn’t include thousands of pieces of voter contact mail, sent to GOP primary voters in multiple states – including an 8 page “novel” — where the postage costs alone are hundreds of thousands of dollars!

 

The PAC has sent thousands of texts, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital advertising in just a few states as well as ordering campaign swag that could fill the vacuum of leadership the Governor left in Florida while campaigning (horribly) overseas in Europe.

  

So, stated directly, what you are witnessing is a fleecing on an epic scale. Tens of millions of donor dollars spent, while poll numbers… drop.

 

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Mar-a-Lago, FL — President Donald J. Trump released a new video exposing Joe Biden’s senseless plan to revoke Title 42, which will lead to dangerous individuals flooding across the border and bringing mayhem and chaos into American communities.

 

“Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in U.S. history by far,” President Trump said. “We replaced catch and release with detain and deport. One of my most successful policies was Title 42, which allowed for instant expulsion of any illegal alien who crossed our borders— anybody, if they were bad, we got them out. We got them out fast. When I take the oath of office on January 20, 2025, we will immediately begin the process of fully securing the border and removing the illegal aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully allowed to break into our country.”

 

Watch President Trump’s Statement on Joe Biden’s Insane Plan to Revoke Title 42

 

President Trump has called on Congress to immediately choke off and terminate all funding for catch and release, and pledged to immediately begin the process of fully securing the border and removing the illegal aliens, once back in the White House.

 

President Trump secured America’s southern border and will wage war on the deadly cartels once he returns to the Oval Office. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has handed over complete control of the U.S. southern border to the dangerous cartels and put American communities on the frontline.

 

The U.S. Border Patrol has  reported three times as many illegal border crossings   under Joe Biden than took place under President Trump. The Biden administration continues to break records for historic illegal border crossings, with  over 5.5 million illegal border crossings  since taking office.

 

On average,  more than 200,000 illegal immigrants —equivalent to the population of Salt Lake City—are crossing our border every single month. 

 

In his first year in office, Biden signed  nearly 90 executive orders  undoing successful Trump border and immigration policies. Since, Joe Biden has encouraged unending migration. On January 5, Biden announced unilateral executive mass amnesty and work permits for 30,000 new illegals every month before they even reach our borders—allowing migrants to apply for entry from a mobile app.

 

As a result, foreign nationals from around the world and deadly drugs continue to flow across the southern border. In Joe Biden’s America, 300 people are  poisoned with fentanyl each day .

 

On Joe Biden’s watch, record amounts of deadly fentanyl have entered the country through ports of entry and illegal border crossings. Last year alone, agents seized enough fentanyl to  kill 379 million people —more than the entire population of the United States.

 

The Biden administration  immediately revived  the “catch-and-release” policy, sparking a surge in illegal border crossings since Biden has taken office.

 

Now, amid record numbers of illegal border crossings, the Biden administration plans to repeal Title 42, which immigration officials have used  more than 2.5 million times  at the southern border to expel migrants to Mexico or their home countries. 

 

At least  98 known or suspected terrorists  attempted to cross the southern border in 2022—a figure that doesn’t include any “gotaways.” Last year, federal agents uncovered a plot by a known ISIS-affiliated immigrant to smuggle four Iraqi nationals across the open border.

 

While the Northern Triangle nations—comprised of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—have continued to violate America’s sovereignty, Biden’s border czar Kamala Harris has provided the Northern Triangle with  record foreign aid .

 

Since Joe Biden took office, convicted-criminal-alien encounters—including rapes, murders, and assaults—have increased by  466% in the United States .

 

To conceal the true cost of the border crisis, the Biden administration has  recruited NGOs to settle illegal aliens in states across the country, in exchange for federal grants worth over $137 million.

 

President Trump secured our southern border and honored the U.S. Border Patrol.

 

President Trump built over 400 miles of the world’s most robust and advanced border wall, resulting in an  87% reduction in illegal border crossings  where the wall stands.

 

The Trump administration fully enforced America’s immigration laws with the Department of Justice prosecuting  a record number  of immigration-related cases.

 

President Trump ended the dangerous policy of “catch-and-release,” which allowed illegal aliens to be released into the United States, often never to be seen again. 

 

To combat asylum claim abuse and backlog for authentic asylum claims, the Trump administration  trained frontline Border Patrol agents  to assist USCIS perform credible fear screenings for illegal border crossers.

 

Under President Trump, the United States entered a historic partnership with the Mexican government to deploy tens of thousands of Mexican soldiers to secure their side of the border. Additionally, President Trump  ordered nearly 5,000 troops  to the southern border.

 

President Trump has pledged to shut down Biden’s border disaster. He will again end catch-and-release, restore Remain in Mexico, and eliminate asylum fraud.

 

President Trump’s plan to secure the border includes a commitment to declare war and defeat the cartels , just as President Trump did with ISIS.

 

In addition to restoring strong border security, President Trump will deploy all necessary military assets, including the U.S. Navy to impose a full naval embargo on the cartels.

 

President Trump has also committed to direct the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces, cyber warfare, and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations.

 

President Trump has pledged to designate the dangerous cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, to curb their access to global financial systems.

 

Additionally, President Trump has vowed to form an unprecedented partnership with neighboring governments in our region to defeat these cartels. President Trump is prepared to take every action, including exposing every bribe, payoff, and corruption that is allowing the cartels to continue their brutal reign.

 

President Trump will also work with Congress to pass legislation that ensures drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the death penalty.

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in US history by far. We replaced catch and release with detain and deport. One of my most successful policies was Title 42, which allowed for instant expulsion of any illegal alien who crossed our borders— anybody, if they were bad, we got them out. We got them out fast. 

 

Those who trespassed into our country could be immediately sent back to the place from which they came. Every would-be illegal border crosser knew that with Donald Trump in the White House, our border was closed, it was absolutely closed, and they had no chance of getting in and therefore they didn't come. 

 

When Joe Biden came into office, he terminated every successful border policy that was put into place including Remain in Mexico, one of the best of them all, deliberately throwing open the borders and instituting catch and release and resettling untold millions and millions of illegal aliens into the United States. They're now your neighbors. Congratulations. 

 

Now, Joe Biden is preparing to remove the last remnants of my Title 42 policy, just a few weeks from now, wiping out the few remaining shreds of our southern border. Hundreds of thousands of people will pour in that day. And the judge already said that's what's going to happen. This will mean complete and total mayhem and utter lawlessness, and unlimited numbers of fraudulent asylum seekers flood into the United States unchecked. 

 

They are unchecked, nobody has any idea where they come from. They don't know if they're healthy, if they're sick, if they're insane, or if they're coming from prisons. Already, tens of thousands of illegal aliens have massed on the Mexican side of the border. They're getting ready to storm across the moment Title 42, which is so important, is officially gone. 

 

Can you believe they’re getting rid of it?

 

And when that happens, countless more will charge in from all over the world. They're coming from all over the world. And some of the states like California saying, “come in and we give you free health care, free education.” People hear that from other countries. They say, “well, that sounds good to me.” And they're making a mass charge toward our border. It's absolute lunacy. 

 

It will be a mass resettlement of millions and millions of illegal aliens into your communities. And the invasion will be aided, abetted, and facilitated by the Biden administration every step of the way. Every path they take will be made easier by Biden. Congress should move immediately to choke off and terminate all funding for catch and release. 

 

We should ban Joe Biden and the Communists and the administration from using a single federal taxpayer dollar to set loose illegal aliens into the United States. Now is the time we have to fight to make sure our country survives because our country cannot take two more years of this invasion. 

 

And when I take the oath of office on January 20, 2025, we will immediately begin the process of fully securing the border and removing the illegal aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully allowed to break into our country. 

 

Thank you very much.