Did Trump and Israel get played by Omar and Tlaib? Some conservatives think so.
It’s a process we repeat every couple of days with President Trump: He does something highly controversial that seems like a bad idea on its face, and we’re quickly assured he’s playing three-dimensional chess. That was the prevailing analysis shortly after Trump successfully urged Israel to ban Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) ahead of their planned visit.
It was a highly unusual move — a U.S. president calling for members of his own government to be shut out by a foreign nation — but then talk turned to why Trump was doing it. This is just part of the supersmart base strategy that you don’t understand, the analysis said. He’s making members of “the squad” into his 2020 opponents!
But even some conservatives and Trump supporters are suggesting Trump and Israel got played.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted that they were effectively giving Omar and Tlaib what they wanted.
“I disagree 100% with Reps. Tlaib & Omar on #Israel & am the author of the #AntiBDS bill we passed in the Senate,” Rubio tweeted. “But denying them entry into #Israel is a mistake.”
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