This could be Trump's last stand on border wall

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By Jacqueline Alemany

November 29 at 5:56 AM

At the White House

FIGHT OR FLIGHT: Two of the biggest battles of Donald Trump's presidency — building his border wall and defending himself from a legal probe he has consistently slammed as a “witch hunt” — are reaching a boiling point.

Whether the president chooses to fight or fold in both cases could shape the next two years of his presidency and dictate the terms of a 2020 reelection battle.

After a quiet stretch leading into the midterms, there have been several key developments just this week in Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and whether Trump campaign aides had improper links to the Kremlin. And the president must decide whether to take a dramatic stand to secure $5 billion in funding for the border wall before Democrats take control of the House, perhaps shutting down the government in the process.

Trump seems determined to fight these two wars — at least for the time being:

A mandate:"I don't think he wants to run for reelection without making major progress in achieving that,” the Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore told us, referring to the wall fight. “Do I think he's staking his whole presidency on the wall? No. But I think he thinks it's fundamentally one of his most important promises.”

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