Apart from love of money, tits, and big building projects, Trump loves nothing more than making a deal.
... Speaking to correspondent Ross Douthat for Sunday night’s installment of 60 Minutes on CBS News – his first major interview since Tuesday’s crushing defeat for Republicans – Trump said of the crackdown: “I think it was too tough.”
“I think it might be too tough, yeah,” he continued. “And a lot of people would say that it’s great. But a lot of people think it’s too tough.”
... Asked where his approach had backfired, Trump answered: “For getting people out, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out.
“But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.
“Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there’s a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they’re good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel, or doing something, right? And in some cases, paying taxes.”
Striking a more conciliatory tone than usual, Trump also entertained the idea of working with congressional Democrats on an amnesty for people who have been in the country for a long time without the proper documentation.
“Let the people that are here, and in some cases here for 10 and 15 years, work a deal for them,” the president suggested. “I think that’s something that’s actually doable.” ...
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