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Donald Trump's waffling on the question of what to do about undocumented immigrants passed a critical milestone on last night's episode of Hannity when the Republican nominee said he's considering the idea of not deporting gainfully employed undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for a long period of time. From the transcript (Trump is directing his questions to Hannity's live audience):

You'll note that this positionof not deporting undocumented individuals who are otherwise upstanding citizenshappens to be the one advocated by Trump's greatest nemesis, President Barack Hussein "ISIS" Obama. Indeed, it's a position that hard-line conservative activists have a name for: amnesty. And Donald Trump has been vocal for years about hating amnesty.

Donald Trump's most ardent far-right fans also hate amnesty. And one of the most prominent of those fans, Ann Coulter, actually published a hagiographic book this week called In Trump We Trust in which she stated explicitly that the one thing Trump could never be forgiven for is changing his position on immigration:

For the record, Trump told Sean Hannity that he was not considering "amnesty as such." But that's what every Republican who supports the granting of legal status to some undocumented immigrants says; indeed, prominent immigration hard-liner Steve King, a Republican congressman from Iowa, answered in the affirmative when a CNN host asked if what Trump is considering was "tantamount to amnesty."

What it definitely is, unambiguously, is a reversal of Trump's previous position. Trump, in a February debate:

Then: "They will go out." Now: "Do you think they have to get out? ... I don't know." Yeah, who knows?

Either way, Ann Coulterwhose book-launch party was Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.is NOT HAPPY.

She's being sarcastic, as one will do when one is let down by one's nationalist goon hero-savior; there's more on her feed. She's even implying that she might cancel her book tour (though she says she will still ultimately continue to support Trump because of the "blind loyalty" he earned from her by giving his "Mexican rapist speech").

Meanwhile, Twitter's Daniel Lin has a suggestion for what Trump might call his next publishing project:

Sounds about right. Sorry, Ann Coulter.

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Any close election will be stolen by the Democrats,saidCoulter, a Trump supporter, Friday in an interview with Politico.

Thats because no ones prosecuting it.Its like saying theres no lynchings because in the old South, no one prosecuted it.No, were not counting the number of prosecutions.Thats the whole point.If people got prosecuted, it wouldnt happen.

Coulter said most voters would agree with Trumps policies if offered a blind choice between them and Clintons.

You go send out your pollsters to all of the areas where [theres] like the [Sen. Bernie] Sanders [I-Vt.] voters, Hispanic areas, black areas, and you down position papers, she said. "Candidate A, candidate B.

Then you tell them who it is, and you flip the page, and show whose positions are whose.Ask which one they support, and you know its going to be Trump.

Coulter also told Politico that Trump could win more black voters than any Republican since former President Richard Nixon. Politico said Nixon won 32 percent of the non-white vote during the 1960 presidential election cycle.

What is holding people back is that [Trumps] being smeared from every media outlet, she said.

People are so hysterical and that sort of pressure can work on people, the conservative commentator added. "People can be bullied.

Trump has repeatedly told supporters the political process is rigged against outsider candidates like himself.

On Monday heurgedhis supporters to exercise vigilance for voting trickery while casting ballots this November.

Youve got to get every one of your friends, he said during a rally in Akron, Ohio. "Youve got to get everybody to go out and watch.And go out and vote.

And when I say watch, you know what Im talking about, right? You know what Im talking about.I think you got to go out and you got to watch.

Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, leads Trump by about 6 points nationwide, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls.

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On Tuesday, conservative provocateur Ann Coulter released herlatest book an ode to Donald Trump titled "In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!" (Yes, that's the real title.)

That same day, Trump did the one thing Coulter wrote in her bookcannot be forgiven.

"Until the bleeding has stopped, there's nothing Trump can do that won't be forgiven," she wrote. "Except change his immigration policies."

Trump has now essentially changed his immigration policies, telling Sean Hannity in a town hall taped the very day Coulter's book hit the shelvesthat he's open to "softening" his position on illegal immigrants who have contributed to society. In further town hall remarks airing Wednesday night, Trump said that he didn't favor citizenship for immigrants living illegally in the country but thathe would "work with them" on a plan that would include "back taxes."

Coulter isn't happy.

On Twitter late Wednesday, she noted how similar Trump's rhetoric sounded to those who favor a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.

She tweeted incredulously about Trump saying his proposal wasn't "amnesty."

And she wasn't happy about Trump's comment that deporting illegal immigrants who have been here for many years would be "very hard."

"I've had very strong people come up to me really great, great people come up to me and they've said, 'Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who's been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it's so tough, Mr. Trump,'" he told Hannity. "I have it all the time. It's a very, very hard thing."

So here is Coulter, having just published a book making the case that we need Trump at this point in our history that there's only one thing he could do that would be a deal-breaker. And immediatelyhe does that thing.

We have yet to see how big a backlash there will be on the right against Trump's new immigration policy in large partbecause he hasn't laid it out in detail, and we're still left to parse exactly what his position is. But it's clear he's moving in a direction that folks like Coulter won't like. Coulter tried to play his comments offbefore Wednesday night, but now hehas apparently gone too far.

Let this be a reminder to anyonewho feels strongly about very conservative policy ideals: For Trump, self-described master negotiator, it appears just about everything is negotiable.

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AnnCoulters new book was just released and has likely already been rendered irrelevant before hitting most bookshelves nationwide.

In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!,is, no surprise, a full-throated endorsement of Trump, who the controversial conservative commentator says is the countrys last hope to preserve its culture and save the (white) working class.

In the book, Coulter, a longtime Trump booster, writes that theres nothing Trump can do that wont be forgiven. Except change his immigration policies.

But now that Trumpis finally revving up his long-awaited pivot to do just that, Coulter is freaking out.

With Trumps first hints of an evolution on his immigration positions, Coulter was quick to cover for him.

Its just rhetoric but its still annoying, Coulter told The Hill at her book signing Wednesdaynight. I think he panicked and he had to say [it] I dont think he is softening. I mean the big thing is the wall.

But then the second part of Trumps Fox News town hall special on immigration with Sean Hannity aired. In front of a friendly Texas crowd,Trump floated a possible process to allow undocumented immigrants to remain in America, a complete reversal from the inhumane mass deportation plan that helped him win the crowded GOP primary.

No citizenship, Trump told Hannity in the specialtaped Tuesday afternoon. Let me go a step further theyll pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes, theres no amnesty, as such, theres no amnesty, but we work with them.

And has become customary, Trump attempted to sell his latest flip-flop as a routine reaction to his supporters wants.

Look, this is like a poll, theres thousands of people in this room, Trump said. Who wants those people thrown out?

The Fox News crowd responded with incoherent cheers and yells.

Everywhere I go, I get the same reaction. They want toughness, they want firmness, they want to obey the law. But but, they feel that throwing them out as a whole family when theyve been here for a long time, its a tough thing. They do feel that, Trump added.

That was the last straw for Coulter, who took to Twitter to blast Trumps creeping shift:

Welp.

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Conservative commentator Ann Coulter joined CBSN to discuss her new book "In Trump We Trust." Coulter also describes the shift in American politics since Donald Trump's run for office as well as his immigration policy. Coulter responds to new Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway saying, that Trump's final immigration/deportation plan is "to be determined" in an interview on Sunday.

"I think this is just more media propaganda, this is such a non-story," Coulter said. "Look, we know the direction he's going in -- we know there's going to be a wall."

She added: "What I used to hear for half the campaign was, he secretly told the New York Times there's not even going to be a wall!"

"Of course there is give-and-take in Washington," she said. "With Hillary... we are getting totally open borders, complete amnesty... for millions of illegals."

"Hillary says she wants to more than quadruple the number of Muslim refugees she lets in. The details of Trump's plan-- We're getting a wall! We know he's going to let ICE do it's job. How much he can do without the agreement of Congress... Of course there is going to be negotiation."

"Only the media could keep introducing the same news as if it is a breaking news story. Yeah, we don't know the details yet. We know there's not going to be amnesty under Trump, and we know we're getting a wall!"

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