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Well, well, well, Angus King, Democratic, Senator from Maine, who claims to be an independent, but he's actually a Democrat, went on Morning Joe today and said, standing up to Donald Trump, well, it wasn't really working.

Defying Trump just isn't really a thing.

He's drawing the ire of the leftists who, well, they're not big fans of Angus King to begin with.

And to have him say what he said, well, hear him in his own words

on Morning Joe. Well, Joe, you have to go back to what the strategy was at the beginning of the

shutdown. There were two goals, both of which I support. One was standing up to Donald Trump. The

other was getting some resolution on the ACA premium tax credit issue.

The problem was the shutdown wasn't accomplishing either goals, and there was practically, well,

there was zero likelihood that it was going to.

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