On Wednesday’s “Rush Limbaugh Show,” President Trump stated that a government shutdown over immigration would be “a great political thing.” And left open the possibility that a shutdown could happen after the election.

Trump said, “I say, hey, if you have a shutdown, you have a shutdown. Now, the shutdown can also take place after the election. I happen to think it’s a great political thing. Because people want border security.”

He added, “I happen to think it’s a good thing politically. I’m not doing it for politics. I’m doing it because it’s the right thing to do. … I happen to think that border security would be a good thing before the election. … I happen to think it would be a good thing to do before. I actually think we’d get more and there’d be more pressure on the other side. Because we’re doing it because the Democrats are not giving us the votes.”

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