"Beef patties" sure doing a lot of dog whistling work here.

This’d be easier said than done. Fox and Republicans will scream bloody murder about “persecuting US law enforcement to coddle illegals aliens!!!” That’s why this needs to be a HUGE media event. Broadcast vile proof of the abuses far and wide. Make it undeniably clear what ICE actually was.

Americans are angry, for a lot of wildly varied reasons, but nothing unites people like watching bullies get theirs.

Nice work if you can get it.

But yeah, this would also explain the speed that everything is happening at. They know he could drop any minute, and then the calculus of everything changes.

My honest read is that he hasn't made a real decision in weeks, and is just being trotted in front of cameras to rant about the latest initiative Miller or Russ Vought told him was his idea. Also, the ballroom thing likely truly is his "top priority".

I love ALL of this.

Good luck this weekend! Hydrate!