<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div size="5" class="gmail-Raw-slyvem-0 gmail-jAwpMF" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(17,17,17)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.5"><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-06-15/trump-to-visit-southern-border-with-texas-gov-greg-abbott">Trump to Visit Southern Border With Texas Gov. Greg Abbott | National News | US News</a><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.5">"Former President Donald Trump will accompany Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on a trip to the southern border at the end of the month, he announced Tuesday evening in a statement that criticized the Biden administration's handling of immigration."</p><div>--------------------</div><div>When I first heard this, I did not believe it!  Trump gives new extreme meaning to the concept of a "teflon politician:"</div><div>-----------------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/teflon-president/">Teflon president - Political Dictionary</a></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(30,30,30);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:20px">"More recently, a number of commentators <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/17/trump-term-new-yorker-last-phase-presidency" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px">have asked</a> whether President Trump is also made of Teflon." ----------------------------------------------------------------</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(30,30,30);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:20px">“Teflon” can also be used to describe any powerful person who manages to avoid blame over a long period of time. The New York mafia boss John Gotti was dubbed <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/teflon-don-sentenced-to-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px">the Teflon Don</a>, for example, after he managed to avoid conviction in trial after trial during the 1980s. Gotti was finally convicted in 1992 on 14 counts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering.</p><div class="gmail-mv-ad-box" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:10px;display:flex;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);overflow:hidden;padding-top:0px;color:rgb(30,30,30);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:20px;height:324px;width:707px"><div id="gmail-content_2_btf_wrapper" class="gmail-adunitwrapper gmail-content_btf_wrapper gmail-mv-size-336x280" style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;height:294px;width:336px;margin:0px;text-align:center;display:flex;min-height:294px"></div></div></div></div><div size="5" class="gmail-Raw-slyvem-0 gmail-jAwpMF" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1rem;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(17,17,17)"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>