Say it isn't so

The tweet came just 10 hours after the White House issued a statement indicating its support of the renewal efforts and made clear its opposition to an amendment with growing support that would block renewal, raising the prospect that the president simply didn’t understand what the position of his White House had been.

  Weekly Standard

I'd say that's a given, consdering he barely knows what his position is most of the time.

The tweet undercut an effort by some House Republicans hawks to ensure passage of a FISA Act renewal that Republican leadership had long assumed would pass without much of a fight.

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Top Trump national security officials, including CIA Director Mike Pompeo and White House National Security Adviser Tom Bossert, scrambled to clarify the White House position in calls to Capitol Hill.

He's a nightmare for his own party, isn't he?

On Wednesday evening, as it became clearer that passage was uncertain, House Republicans urged the White House to make clear its opposition to the alternative to FISA Act renewal. At 9:12 p.m., the White House issued a statement from press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders designed to provide this clarity.

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Proponents of renewal privately expressed frustration with the president, both his lack of discipline and his obvious ignorance of his own alleged policy preferences. House Republican leaders called the White House requesting another statement to clarify the president’s [Thursday morning] tweet.

So, then The Most Notable Loser attempted to fix the problem.

"With that being said," I'm all for the act I was against just a few minutes ago.  And, in fact, I'm the one who directed it to be written.

Democrats are divided on the FISA Act renewal, with Schiff and Dutch Ruppersberger, former ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence panel, supporting the legislation but most rank-and-file Democrats opposed.

Because everybody loves surveilance.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Yeah, but I'm still mad at Ron Wyden for putting his own financial golden egg above the rights and liberties of the people he's supposed to serve, by not telling us what he knew about domestic surveilance, forcing Ed Snowden to have to break laws and become a fugitive in order to do it.

UPDATE 1/12:  What happened between Trump's two tweets.

The presidential decree — a mere 40 words — set off a mad scramble across Washington.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) spent 30 minutes on the phone with the president explaining the differences between domestic and foreign surveillance, as many fellow Republicans reacted in disbelief and befuddlement. White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly also directly intervened with Trump, reiterating the program’s importance before traveling to the Capitol, where he parried questions from confused lawmakers.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted there was no discrepancy between Trump’s two tweets — and said the only confusion was on the part of the media.

“We don’t think there was a conflict at all,” Sanders said. “The president fully supports the 702 and was happy to see that it passed the House today. . . . We don’t see any contradiction or confusion in that.”

  WaPo

Of course you don't, you slithering toad.

“Who saw that coming except for no one?” one White House official said, speaking anonymously to criticize the president. “You just shake your head and laugh a little bit.”

Which is why this shithead is still in office, and the real danger to national security.