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Ann Coulter says Trump is dead in the water if he doesnt build that wall: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is reiterating her warnings about President Donald Trumps political prospects if he doesnt deliver on a signature issue, as she assesses why he is digging in his heels on his proposed wall for the southern border.

It is self-preservation, because he is dead in the water if he does not build that wall. Dead, dead, dead, she said, according to a Newsweek report citing a Vice News interview that aired Tuesday.

Coulter criticized Trump for being the worst negotiator God ever created for his failure to reach an agreement with the Democrats to end the partial government shutdown, which was triggered by a dispute over wall funding. She also said she has been advising the president since Election Day.

T-Mobiles stays at Trump hotel stands out: One day after T-Mobile US Inc. TMUS, +1.07% announced a $26 billion merger with Sprint Corp. S, +1.00% that needed the Trump administrations approval, nine of the wireless carriers executives had reservations at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., said a Washington Post report on the turn of events last spring.

Trumps hotel also has rented hundreds of rooms to lobbyists paid by Saudi Arabia and hosted a large meeting of the oil industrys lobbying group, but the T-Mobile case stands out because the companys executives were expected so soon after announcing they needed a win in Washington, the Post report said.

Its disturbing, because its another secret avenue for currying favor with the government, Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group, told the newspaper.

Eric Trump, running the family business while his father serves in the White House, told the paper that the hotel has absolutely no role in politics, adding that it offers extraordinary service so it should come as no surprise that T-Mobile CEO John Legere would stay there repeatedly.

Shutdown leads to an Armed Forces branch missing out on pay for the first time in our nations history: The countrys 42,000 active-duty Coast Guard members have missed out on scheduled paychecks, as the only military branch to work without pay during the partial government shutdown, notes an NBC News report.

To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our Nations history that servicemembers in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in appropriations, said Adm. Karl Schultz, the Coast Guards commandant, in a tweet.

Bipartisan Problem Solvers group to meet with Trump as shutdown continues: A bipartisan group of House members was due to go to the White House for a meeting at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday, Politico reported, adding that it didnt expect much from the meeting.

The group, which self-identifies as the Problem Solvers Caucus, is probably the group least representative of where most Republicans and Democrats are at the moment, Politicos report added.

Meanwhile, some senators are discussing sending a bipartisan letter to Trump pledging to work together on border security if the shutdown ends, according to a separate Politico article.

Senate and House leaders have said they will cancel the Martin Luther King Day Jr. recess for Congress unless there is a sudden resolution to the 26-day government shutdown, which appears unlikely given a breakdown in high-level talks, according to a Hill article.

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Real Time returned last night after a two-month hiatus, and Bill Maher wasted little time courting controversy this time from his own studio audience. During a panel discussion with former congressman Barney Frank, Maher received boos from the crowd when he announced that Ann Coulter would be on the show next week.

Yeah, thats called a newsmaker. A policymaker. Youll have to suck on that, he said in response to his audiences vocal disapproval. Coulter has appeared on Real Time on several occasions throughout the years, and the two are friends despite holding diametrically opposed political views.

It wasnt the first time Coulter was mentioned last night. During his monologue, which focused on the ongoing government shutdown as well as the latest bombshell revelations about Donald Trump and his inner circle, Maher alluded to the fact that Coulter and other Fox News personalities have the presidents ear when it comes to major policy decisions. Of course Trump was not having that. Nobody puts man-baby in the corner, Maher said of Trumps feud with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. He was like, Im not gonna let some woman push me around is Ann Coulter OK with that?'

Maher and Coulter both thrive on controversy, and neither is likely to be bothered by this response or the fact that theyre probably going to receive more boos during next Fridays episode of Real Time.

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Bill Maher Gets Booed for Booking Ann Coulter on Real Time

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D-BFD) became the subject of uncharacteristic criticism among conservatives when he referred to right-wing media star Ann Coulter simply as the conservative blonde woman, and blamed her for Donald Trumps government shutdown.

CNNs Randi Kaye happened to run into Biden at Philadelphia International Airport this week, and among the other subjects that came up was the current government shutdown.

Republicans overwhelmingly voted to keep the government open, Biden told Kaye, and added Then Rush Limbaugh and the conservative blonde woman says hes losing his base, and so hes changed his mind.

That exchange went viral, and drew a variety of reactions. Some cheered Bidens snub:

But to their credit, even some liberals didnt give Biden a pass for saying Limbaughs name, while failing to say Coulters:

Among conservatives, though, the complaints of sexism were as thick and rich as a foie gra milkshake:

The website Twitchydeclared Bidens comments a new front in the War on Women, and asked the rhetorical question what kind of reaction do you think it would receive if a Republican were to refer to someone on the Left as a blonde woman?

But when Trump called an actual blonde woman horseface, conservatives defended him, and that same Twitchy Dot Com defended Trump by noting that Stormy Daniels started it.

Townhall also wondered if Biden would face backlash for the comment:

Will feminist groups speak up and demand an apology from Biden for the (some would say sexist) comment? We shall see.

Even Russia Today came to Coulters defense (of course):

Obama-era vice-president Joe Biden is being called out for sexism after he referred to a radio host as a conservative blonde woman, while blaming the media for hyping up President Donald Trump to go into the government shutdown.

There is every chance that Biden just blanked on Coulters name, but these reactions are a stark demonstration of the gulf between conservatives concerns over attacks on women like, say, Michelle Obama, and this minor slight against Coulter.

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Conservative commentator Ann Coulter isn't a fan of President Trump's team for negotiating an end to the partial government shutdown.

Comprised of Vice President Mike Pence, White House adviser and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Coulter tweeted this group is a recipe for Trump to end up "impeached."

Coulter's tweet Sunday came hours before the trio returned to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., to continue negotiations with Democratic aides. Meanwhile Trump is at Camp David in Maryland, meeting with top staff about the border.

Adding to her Twitter broadside, Coulter said if "Kushner (Trump) trades DACA amnesty for a wall," there will be inevitable comparisons to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement to Nazi Germany.

The White House and Democratic aides have discussed a multitude of offers, including some protections for so-called Dreamers currently protected by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and concessions on asylum policies.

The partial government shutdown is the result of Trump demanding more than $5 billion in funding for a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border; Democrats, once again in control of the House, are not willing to give more than $1.3 billion in annual border funding.

Coulter has been one of the staunchest supporters of Trump's border wall pledge, which stems back to the 2016 campaign. But that support is double-edged, as the commentator often criticizes the president for not yet fulfilling his stated goal.

In a recent radio interview on "Mark Simone Show" on 710 WOR in New York, Coulter predicted Trump will "fold in the end" on a spending deal. That came after she told a Daily Caller podcast that without a wall, Trump's time in office will "just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populist for a while, but hell have no legacy whatsoever.

Trump has brushed off talk of impeachment in recent days, stirred up again by freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, arguing that, "You cant impeach somebody thats doing a great job."

The prospect of giving up on his wall has led to some dire warnings by key allies. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News last week that doing so would be the "end of his presidency" as he neglects the desires of his base, who have a voice in conservative commentators including Coulter, Fox News host Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh.

But acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney denied that Trump can be swayed by the politicos of the Right. I've seen that I would make the argument that the president has probably more sway over Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter than vice versa," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

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Ann Coulter: Trump acting as if he wants to be impeached

Ann Coulter, perhaps the most vocal Trump supporter pushing for a wall on the southern border, said on Wednesday the president will cave on his demand for a wall.

In an interview with radio host Mark Simone, Coulter noted, the president and I have had a little tiff.

She continued: For one thing, he actually did shut down the government though dont worry, he will fold in the end.

Coulter decried the president last month after the senate passed a continuing resolution to stave off a government shutdown that didnt allocate funding for a border wall. Trump reversed course shortly after, re-upping his demand for a border wall and sending the government into a partial shutdown thats now on day 12.

Coulter added the one person who deserves the most credit of all for going ballistic when Trump caved on wall funding right before Christmas which I think we got him to take back is Matt Drudge. He was the one who put it up as the siren.

It just shows you how the media is so terrified of Drudge that they will not mention him, she said, adding the media would rather focus on Fox News. Fox was like three days behind the game.

He really does set the national agenda, as he did with this, Coulter added of Drudge.

At the end of the interview, she turned back to Trump: If he doesnt build the wall, the next president will be a Democrat.

Listen below the Coulter interview starts around the 23 minute mark.

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