All hell is breaking loose inside the Republican Party.

The Establishment is scheming to kneecap President Trump.

And one RINO’s ugly attack on Trump was the ugliest betrayal yet.

Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress.

Democrats’ only leverage is the filibuster in the Senate.

That’s why Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer provoked a partial government shutdown by denying the votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

Schumer’s chief goal with this shutdown was to end ICE and Border Patrol, and thus end President Trump’s mass deportations.

Establishment RINOs like Senate Majority Leader John Thune just enabled Schumer to achieve victory on that front.

That’s because Thune agreed with a scheme put forth by Schumer to have Democrats provide the votes ot fund Homeland Security while separating ICE and Border Patrol funding for Republicans to pass along a party-line vote in a reconciliation package.

President Trump initially rejected this deal, realizing that by separating ICE and Border Patrol, it would allow Democrats to defund them in the next shutdown fight by either pulling the same stunt if they are in the minority or defunding them on a party-line reconciliation vote if they win the majority in November.

“Well, it wasn’t good. It wasn’t appropriate. Now what they should do is they should terminate the filibuster,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Jacqui Heinrich.

“In my opinion, you can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund ICE. You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund any form of law enforcement,” Trump added

“This whole thing is about the Democrats wanting to have open borders, no ICE, no Border Patrol,” Trump concluded.

The House of Representatives’ rejection of the Senate deal meant the shutdown would continue.

No deal was better than a bad deal.

But Thune didn’t give up and eventually won Trump over by feeding him false information about the reality of the situation.

“Over and over and over again,” Thune told NOTUIS about how he tricked Trump into backing the surrender on ICE funding. “But a bunch of them over there just keep lobbing it back. The president was where he is, and I know that. I just tell him, ‘I’m not telling you. I’m just giving you a dose of reality. It’s not going to happen. The votes aren’t there.’”

Thune claimed his ace in the hole was telling Trump there weren’t the votes in the Senate to nuke the filibuster and pass Homeland Security funding in one shot.

“There has been an expectation in the House, in other places, and for that matter, even some in the White House that eventually, we would just nuke the filibuster,” Thune added. “With the House guys who were like, ‘We don’t like this, we don’t like this’ — I’m like, ‘Give me a better option.’”

Thune then bragged about how he gaslit Trump about the reality of what funding ICE and Border Patrol through reconciliation meant.

“In the end, it was the understanding that we would come back behind with reconciliation, and I don’t know which part of that message maybe wasn’t clear in the House, but in the end it just kind of took its own course, which is unfortunate,” Thune concluded.

From day one, the GOP establishment put up more opposition to the Trump agenda than Democrats.

That GOP sabotage continues well into Trump’s second term.

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