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FightFight's JournalFox News edited Trump's rambling answers and false claims in barbershop interview, full video shows
Source: edition.cnn.com
Fox’s edits omitted numerous Trump tangents and exaggerations – a striking decision given Trump’s recent attacks on CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” for editing an interview with his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, earlier this month.
Trump’s complaints about “60 Minutes” center on an edit of Harris’ comment about the relationship between Israel and the United States. He has charged that CBS manipulated the Harris interview to “make her look better” and demanded that CBS release the unedited transcript of the interview, which CBS has declined to do.
Ironically, however, Fox edited several of Trump’s recent appearances on the network, including his visit to the barbershop. And some of the edits certainly make him look better.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/24/media/fox-news-edit-trump-barbershop-interview/index.html
Why is fox news sane washing Trump's words?
100 Reasons to oppose Trump
1. He is a rapist
2. He is a convicted felon
3. He is a sexual predator
4 He is a corrupt conman who owes 500 million in fines
5 He stole classified documents to sell
6 His inaction caused 200,000 plus needless covid deaths
7 He lied over 30,000 times as Potus
8 He called our Troops suckers and losers
9 He let Turker shell our troops in Syria
10 He let Iran shell our troops in Iraq
11 He supports Russia's war crimes
12 He coddles up to Putin and XI
13 He used to oval office to enrich himself by at least 2 Billion dollars
14 He killed Roe Vs Wade
15vHe inspiried an armend rebellion that killed people and did millions of dollars in damage
16 He covered up the murder of Jama Khashoggi
17 He sold us foreign policy to Russia for future deals
18 He wants to destroy Nato
19 He believes the FSB over the CIA and the FBI
20 He is a racist misogynist anti-semite islamamphobe
21 He tried to convince the military to kill American protestors
22 He promises to be a dictator fo 1 day--which dictator in history has willfully given up power?
23 He wont release his medical records
24 He wont release his tax records
25 He is failing physically and mentally
26 He cheated on all of his wives with dozens of women
27 He promises to deport people by misusing the 1798 Alieen Enemies Act
28 He is a shameless draftdodger
29 He frequently quotes Stalin, Hitler Mussolini
30 He hates dogs
31 He will let wierdo billionares run the government into the ground
32He illegally spied on political rivals
33 He lost 1 billion dollars from 1987 - 1997
34 He promises tp prosecute and even assisinate his political rivals
35 He is the least intelligent candidate in American history
36 He had the worst jobs performanamce of a president on over 100 years
37 His tac cuts would raise the taxes of everyone but the ultra rich
38 His conflicts of interest in Chian, UAE etc were never dealt with--rather he lied about it
39 His illegal hit on Solemani almost caused WW3
40 His rage tweeting with NK almost cause WW3
41 He wants to have sex with his daughter Ivanka
42 He wants to get rid of Obamacare which Millions of Americans have
43 He gave Israeli secrets to Russia
44 He exited the Paris Accord
45 He gave secrets to MBS which resulted in the slaughtering of Rivals in Saudi Arabia
46 He met Putin without a note taker and never informed Americans wht the conversation was about
47 He lied about the 2020 election
48 He lies about being a christian
49 He lies about his wealth
50 He lies about his grades in college
51 He has pedning felonies in state and federal court
52 His Trump university scam
53 His NFT scam
54 He Trump Bucks scam
55 His watch scam
56 His crpto scam
57 All his products are made in China
58 He admits he downplayed covid intentionally
58 He admits to doctoring is medical records
60 He doest know or understand one word of the constitution
61 The vast majority of people in his orbit have been jailed on corruption charges
62 He surrounds himsefl with incompetent people--betsy devos sec of education could not even spell basi words
63 He promises to jail media persons
64 His DNi Dan Coates says Putin has blackmail material on Trump
65 He cheated middle class and working contractors put of monies he has owed them for decades
66 All of his merch is garbage
67 He doesnt understand economics--see tarrifs
68 He has no skills applicable to public service
69 He doesnt laugh
70 he doesnt apologize when hsi s wrong
71 Many people are saying that he had terrible body odor https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-smell-jimmy-kimmel-33608755
71 He has a history of physical violemce
72 Racial violence seems to naturally follow him --COUNTIES THAT HOSTED TRUMP RALLIES IN 2016 SAW A 226 PERCENT ICREASE IN HATE CRIMES
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/trumps-rhetoric-does-inspire-more-hate-crimes/
73 He throws tantrums
74 He has stolen from his own charity
75 He has committed [erjury on numerous occasions
76 He constantly trashes America
77 He Blocked the bipartican border bill
78 He supports mass killings of Palestinans
79 He conflates us jews with israeli jews
80 The world thinks he is a clown
81 His Bible scam --made in China
82 He will destroy the environment turn it into a giant industrial sewer
83 He alost destroyed the American Agricultural market with his mishandling of tarrifs
84 Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president. https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. TRUMP HAD THE THIRD-BIGGEST PRIMARY DEFICIT GROWTH, 5.2% OF GDP, BEHIND ONLY GEORGE W. BUSH (11.7%) AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN (9.4%).--All Republicans
85 Nearly 1,800 factories have disappeared during the Trump administration between 2016 and 2018--jobs https://www.epi.org/publication/reshoring-manufacturing-jobs/
86 Boeing lost $1.1 billion on Trump Air Force One contract; CEO regrets deal
87 Buffon at the highest level
88 Mired n conspiracy theories--A barely coherent barrage of wild and inaccurate claims
89 Repeatedly echoes the rantings on racists on social media platorms
90 Cut the funding to anti semtic programs
91 Trump Blew As Much Taxpayer Money On Golf As Richest Pro Golfer Tiger Woods Earns Golfing while President
92 Fueled the separation of kids from their parents at the border--Trump’s Child Detention Camps Cost $775 Per Person Every Day---The daily cost for a child in a detention camp is more than a stay in a deluxe room at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.--THIS MOnEY WENT TO THE PRIVATE PRISONS AKA--Trump's donors--There were 70,000 kids in cages under the trump administration--Republicans screamING about the debt should just shut the
93 His languauge is not positive for anyone prticulary young children--Grab them by the ....
94 Foodborne illnesses rose under Trump, CDC finds --2019 .... Trump Is Quiet Undermined Food Safety
95 /doesnt pay his bills--he owes over 1 million dollars oto various cities abound the country for 2016 rallies 8 years ago
96 Under Trump the US slipped to third place in a ranking of most competitive economies
97 He is not loyal to America-- Russian 'birth tourists' are flocking to Miami, and Trump condos, to give birth to American citizens
98 He is not loyal to America - My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years
99 - He is not loyal to America - Trump Winery Seeks To Hire 35 Foreign Workers This Year
Jan 24, 2023--SO MUCH FOR AMERICA FIRST
100 - the practical application of the suckers and losers comment - Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Fines a Man $1 For Swindling Veterans, Orders Him Not to Do It Again;
101 He has been impeached twiced
102 SHARPIE GATE-- Commerce Secretary Ross threatened mass firings if NOAA scientists contradicted Trump on Hurricane Dorian''
103 Corruption _ Air Force paying Trump for use of Scottish resort, keeping it afloat financially
104 Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/opinions/coronavirus-personal-protective-equipment-obeidallah/index.html
SETH ABRAHAMSON IS THE INSPIRATION
Harris ad shows a Texas woman who lost baby and nearly died from sepsis amid strict abortion ban
Source: local10
A new series of Kamala Harris campaign ads seek to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe v. Wade by telling the story of a Texas woman who got a life-threatening infection when she couldn't get proper treatment after she miscarried and how she may no longer be able to have children.
In one ad, the woman identified only as Ondrea details how excited she was to have a girl only to find out that the baby wouldn't survive after her water broke too early. She was denied an abortion and eventually went into labor. “Immediately after her birth, I was in the worst pain of my life,” she says, as she and her husband are pictured in her living room near a framed photo of the baby's ultrasound. She then developed sepsis, a life-threatening pregnancy complication.
The ad is part of a final push by the Democratic nominee to highlight how medical care has grown increasingly unstable for pregnant woman — including for those who never intended to end a pregnancy — since three justices appointed to the Supreme Court by then-President Donald Trump helped overturned abortion rights.
Ondrea blames Trump for her situation.
Read more: https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2024/10/23/harris-ad-shows-a-texas-woman-who-lost-baby-and-nearly-died-from-sepsis-amid-strict-abortion-ban/
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A 13-year-old who was raped by her grandfather traveled hours across Texas to get an abortion. She wouldn't have been able to under the state's new 6-week ban.
https://www.insider.com/texas-abortion-ban-would-block-teen-raped-by-grandfather-2021-5
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TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN Reresentative. Scott DesJarlais, who claims to be "100 percent" anti-abortion after his wife had 2 abortions and he pressured his mistress to have 1 https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/nov/15/scott-desjarlais-supported-abortions-slept-patient/
U.S. Economy Again Leads the World, IMF Says
Source: wsj
The U.S. is increasingly pulling ahead of the world’s advanced economies, with a surge of investment paying off in higher productivity and wages.12
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/u-s-economy-again-leads-the-world-imf-says-39578275
1 - Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy? G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html
2 - U.S. Jobs, Income, GDP Growth 'Startlingly' Higher Under Democratic Presidents https://www.newsweek.com/us-jobs-income-gdp-growth-startlingly-higher-under-democratic-presidents-analysis-1566313
3 - Over the last 6 decades--60 years or so, history has tended to favor Democratic presidents in terms of economic performance https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/10/28/which-presidents-have-been-best-for-the-economy
4 - During the final 3 years of Barack Obama's presidency 2014. 2015 . 2016 , the number of jobs added was 1.5 million greater than the number added during Trump's first 3 years in office 2017 2018 2019 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-created-more-jobs-trump
5 - Trump inherited a booming economy — and handed Biden a nation 'in shambles' https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inherited-booming-economy-handed-biden-nation-shambles-n1255033
Ted Cruz Suffers Hit as Texas' Biggest Newspaper Endorses Rival
Source: thedailybeast
The largest newspaper in Texas endorsed Democrat Rep. Colin Allred for U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing another setback to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in an already tight race. The Dallas Morning News criticized Cruz’s lack of support for the bipartisan bills, including the border deal, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, all of which Allred has supported. “On the items of crucial importance to our country, [Cruz] digs in in the most partisan mode possible, making no room for common ground,” the editorial board wrote. The endorsement also noted that Cruz was one of the first senators to object to certifying the electoral vote on Jan. 6. “His actions were a catalyst for what became one of the worst days in our nation’s history,” the editorial said. The newspaper highlighted Allred’s commitment to bipartisanship and said he “speaks and acts in ways that demonstrate he is willing to treat differences as things we overcome, rather than root in.” Allred has also been endorsed by the Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Though the newspaper often endorses Republican candidates, it has never endorsed Cruz.
Read it at The Dallas Morning News
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cruz-suffers-hit-as-texas-biggest-newspaper-endorses-rival- The largest newspaper in Texas endorsed Democrat Rep. Colin Allred
Ted Cruz is looking into the camera and lying to you. Lying directly to women like Kate Cox, Amanda Zurawski, Lauren Miller and countless others whose lives have been put at risk because of HIS abortion ban.
https://www.tiktok.com/@colinallredtx/video/7426219031742582062
How Republicans made millions on the Trump tax cuts they pushed through Congress, Then stuck you with the bill
When the price of Apple stock hit a then-record high in October 2018, among the shareholders counting their gains were 43 Republicans in Congress, who collectively owned as much as $1.5 million worth of the tech giant’s shares.
Apple’s stock jumped 37 percent in its runup to that record. Several variables were behind the climb, including higher-than-expected earnings. But congressional Republicans themselves had a hand in the spike, stock analysts say. Legislation they championed — the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — doled out nearly $150 billion in corporate tax savings in 2018 alone. One effect: a big boost in stock prices.
**Democrats also stood to gain from the tax bill, though not one voted for it**
As part of the bill, Republicans approved tax breaks in 2017 for seven classes of assets many of the wealthier members of Congress held at the time, including partnerships, small corporations, real estate, and several esoteric investment vehicles. While they sold the bill as a package of business and middle-class tax cuts that would not help the wealthy, the cuts likely saved members of Congress hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes collectively, while the corporate tax cut hiked the value of their holdings.
Contrary to Republican claims, the law is not paying for itself and is likely to burden the nation with an additional $1.9 trillion in debt over 11 years beginning in 2018, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
At the time of its passage, most of the bill’s Republican supporters said the cut would result in higher wages, factory expansions, and more jobs. Instead, it was mainly exploited by corporations, which bought back stock and raised dividends. In 2018, stock buybacks exceeded $1 trillion for the first time ever, according to TrimTabs, an investment researchPromises that the tax act would boost investment have not panned out. Corporate investment is now at lower levels than before the act passed, according to the Commerce Department. Though employment and wages have increased, it is hard to separate the effect of the tax act from general economic improvements since the 2008 recession.he boost in stock prices, however, was predictable.Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was chair of the Senate Finance Committee in 2017, when he and his wife owned mutual funds and a limited liability corporation valued between $562,000 and $1.430 million, paying them between $12,700 and $38,500 in dividends and capital gains, according to Hatch’s financial disclosure forms. They also owned a blind trust worth between $1 million and $5 million. (Congressional financial disclosure forms do not require members to report the precise value of assets and income but rather in 11 different ranges, each with a minimum and a maximum value.)
For decades, Hatch, who retired in 2018, had been one of the loudest deficit hawks in Congress. Just 10 months before he would shepherd the tax bill through his committee, Hatch said, “The national debt crisis poses a significant and growing threat to the economic and national security of this country.”
His concern over national security lasted two months. In April, Hatch signaled he was open to a Republican tax bill that would likely add to the national debt. When Republicans passed the tax bill in December 2017, he beamed. “This is a historic night,” he said at a press conference.
(The Center for Public Integrity sought comment from 13 current or former members of Congress mentioned in this article; only two responded.)
A big bump from overseas onshoring
Republican lawmakers also boosted the value of their stock holdings when they encouraged American corporations to repatriate money they were holding overseas. The tax law decreed that future foreign profits would not be taxed at high rates, and that previously earned profits stashed abroad — an estimated $2.7 trillion — would be taxed one time at no more than 15.5 percent.
In 2017, Apple was sitting on $250 billion in overseas profits. In January 2018, the month after Trump signed the tax bill into law, the tech behemoth and third-largest American company said it would pay the new, lower tax and start bringing the cash home. Just four months later, Apple said it would buy back $100 billion of its stock and hike its dividend by 16 percent. Apple shares increased almost 9 percent by the week’s end. In April 2019, Apple announced $75 billion more in buybacks, a move analysts said would likely drive its stock price higher. A day after the announcement, shares increased in value nearly 5 percent. The stock continued to hit record highs late last year.
That increase and higher dividends augmented the holdings of 43 Republicans who voted for the tax bill, including seven senators and their spouses who owned Apple stock in 2018: John Hoeven of North Dakota; David Perdue of Georgia; Arizona’s Jeff Flake, now retired; Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma; and the spouses of Pat Roberts of Kansas, Maine’s Susan Collins, and Shelley Capito of West Virginia. A spokesperson for Hoeven said that he “follows Senate regulations and reporting requirements.” Sen. Collins’s husband’s portfolio decisions are all made by a financial adviser, a Collins spokesperson said, and he has not bought or sold Apple stock since 2015.
Perdue is one of the wealthiest senators, with a net worth of $15.8 million, $14 million of which is in stocks, according to Roll Call. In 2018, with his wife, Perdue owned $100,000 to $250,000 in Apple stock, he reported. The couple sold some of it and received annual dividends and capital gains that year between $15,000 and $50,000.
The optics that the tax cuts would boost the prices of stock he owned apparently didn’t concern Perdue. Weeks before Republicans passed the tax bill, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Perdue if he was worried that the corporate cuts would result in buybacks and increased dividends instead of new jobs. “Well, Maria,” he answered, “I come from the school that, you know, all of the above is acceptable. This is capitalism.” He later added that it was all about “capital flow,” whether for jobs, economic growth, or dividends.
An affinity for “small business” — and pass-throughs
Passing a law that helped fuel increases in stock prices wasn’t the only way Republicans enriched themselves. The new law also contained a 20 percent deduction for income from so-called “pass-through” businesses, a provision called the “crown jewel” of the act by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a lobbying group.
Pass-throughs are single-owner businesses, partnerships, limited liability companies, (known as LLCs) and special corporations called S-corps. Most real estate companies are organized as LLCs. Trump owns hundreds of them, and the Center for Public Integrity’s analysis found that 22 of the 47 members of the House and Senate tax-writing committees in 2017 were invested in them.
Pass-throughs can be found in any industry. They pay no corporate taxes and steer their profits as income to business owners or investors, who are taxed only once at their individual rates. Despite their favored treatment as a business vehicle, the 2017 tax act did them another favor: It allowed 20 percent to be deducted off the top of the pass-through income for tax purposes.
In the Senate, the champion for the pass-through break was Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who was a Budget Committee member when the tax bill was being written. He argued that because the bill was slated to give big corporations a 14 percent cut in their tax rate, smaller businesses should get a break, too. “I just have in my heart a real affinity for these owner-operated pass-throughs,” he told the New York Times when the Senate was considering the tax bill in November 2017.
No doubt Johnson, with his wife, held interests that year in four real estate or manufacturing LLCs worth between $6.2 million and $30.5 million, from which they received income that year between $250,000 and $2.1 million, according to his financial disclosure form.
How much money lawmakers will pocket from the 20 percent pass-through deduction can’t be determined without an examination of their tax returns. There are limits on how much of the deduction can be taken based on total income and business category. But in some cases, the tax savings could run into the tens of thousands of dollars. Johnson declined to comment for this article.
And while the provision did help small businesses in certain favored categories, the benefits of the pass-through deduction are heavily tilted toward the wealthy. Sixty-one percent of the benefits of this provision will go to the top 1 percent of taxpayers in 2024, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the congressional agency that analyzes tax bills.
GOP real estate owners make out big
Besides the law’s benefits to real estate pass-throughs, real estate in general was hugely favored by the tax law, allowing property exchanges to avoid taxation, the deduction of new capital expenses in just one year versus longer depreciation schedules, and an exemption from limits on interest deductions.
“If you are a real estate developer, you never pay tax,” said Ed Kleinbard, a former head of Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation.
Members of Congress own a lot of real estate. Public Integrity’s review of financial disclosures found that 29 of the 47 GOP members of the committees responsible for the tax bill hold interests in real estate, including small rental businesses, LLCs, and massive real estate investment trusts (REITs), which pay dividends to investors. The tax bill allows REIT investors to deduct 20 percent from their dividends for tax purposes.
Real estate pass-throughs got an especially sweet gift in the form of a provision inserted into the tax bill behind the closed doors of the House-Senate conference committee. The Senate bill under consideration based a company’s pass-through deductions on the total amount of wages paid to employees. Because real-estate pass-through companies typically have few employees, however, this meant they could offer only tiny deductions to investors.
A stroke of the pen fixed that: Someone changed the law to allow real estate companies to use the value of their assets — in addition to the size of their payrolls — to calculate pass-through benefits. Because such companies can hold sizable assets, suddenly they, too, could offer the full 20 percent deduction to investors.
“In my judgment, it was a big giveaway to the real estate community, and they are very good lobbyists,” said Steve Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington, DC. That giveaway contributed to last year’s record $1.02 trillion federal revenue shortfall.
One Republican senator who benefited from the last-minute provision was Tennessee’s Bob Corker, who at the time owned or was a partner in 18 real estate businesses, LLCs, and partnerships, records show. His reported income from them was between $2.1 million and $11.1 million in 2017. Corker, who retired in 2018, told Public Integrity he had nothing to do with the provision or the 20 percent pass-through deduction. It was all Ron Johnson’s idea, Corker said.
“The budget deficit is going up so that people like Ron Johnson and Bob Corker can pay less in taxes,” said Hauser, of the Revolving Door Project.
Forbidding self-dealing would help close the loopholes
Republicans wouldn’t have had many of these apparent conflicts if Elizabeth Warren’s anti-corruption plan had been in effect.
Much of the plan was pulled from her Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, which she introduced in the Senate in 2018. Among its provisions, the bill would forbid lawmakers to own or trade individual stocks, bonds, commodities, hedge funds, derivatives, or “complex investment vehicles.” Members would be required to put their assets in “widely held investment vehicles” such as mutual funds. Warren and her husband were invested in 20 mutual funds in 2017, but no individual stocks.
Members could no longer own commercial real estate, though they could keep businesses with revenue under $5 million — which could include a lot of pass-throughs. Warren’s bill hasn’t moved out of the Senate Finance Committee; an identical bill in the House also remains idle.
Warren’s plan faces an uphill climb, even among Democrats. “It’s very difficult to get congresspeople to pass rules that make life exceedingly difficult for themselves,” said Beth Rotman, the money in politics and ethics director at Common Cause, a government watchdog in Washington, DC.
But it’s happened in the past. In 1978, Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It requires certain government officials, including members of Congress, to file annual financial forms — records the Center for Public Integrity used for this analysis. And in 2012, Congress passed a bill that made it unlawful to use insider information to trade stocks, required members to report stock trades within 45 days of the transaction, and required lawmakers to file disclosure forms online in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable database — so conflicts of interest would be easy to detect. (Within a year, Congress had removed the “searchable and sortable” language from the law. The financial disclosures are now available online, but they are not easily searched or sorted.)
Apparently just because of disclosure, stock trading by senators dropped by about two-thirds in the three years following the law’s enactment, according to a study by Craig Holman at the government watchdog group Public Citizen. But Holman said he found that some senators continued to trade in stocks in the very businesses they oversaw in their committees — a practice Public Citizen wants banned.
Ironically, it was Congress that passed laws that restrict other federal government officials from owning stocks or assets that would benefit from the officials’ decisions — or require them to recuse themselves from such decisions. Yet Congress has not passed legislation that bans itself from the same practice. “Congress should have the same rules put on them that the executive branch has,” said Rotman of Common Cause. “The executive branch conflict of interest rules are stronger.”
For the 2017 tax act, Holman of Public Citizen notes that about six years ago, researchers found that more than half of the members of Congress were millionaires. “They are passing tax laws and legislation that disproportionately favors the wealthy class,” Holman said. “And that means they personally benefit from this type of legislation.
“And, from what we’ve seen, especially from the tax cuts and jobs act of 2017,” he added, “that tax bill clearly favored the very wealthy over the rest of Americans. And that means it favored Congress over the rest of America.”
Republican tax cuts are the driving force behind the country’s worsening fiscal outlook.If not for the Bush tax cuts and their extensions — as well as the Trump tax cuts — revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt since their enactment and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since 2001
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-tax-cuts-driving-us-160437971.html
Trump doubles down on tariff plan that voters hate
Source: cnbc
A majority of voters are less likely to support a candidate who wants to impose universal tariffs, an NBC News poll found.
Imposing tariffs on all imports from all countries is one of Donald Trump’s cornerstone economic proposals, which has already faced criticism from economists.
Vice President Kamala Harris has capitalized on the backlash, branding the tariff proposal the “Trump sales tax.”
A majority of voters are less likely to support a candidate who promotes universal tariffs, according to NBC News polling released Sunday, marring a cornerstone economic proposal of former President Donald Trump’s campaign.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/20/trump-tariffs-election.html
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June 1, 2021
U.S. manufacturers blame Trump-era tariffs for inflation’s rise - Companies appealed to the Biden administration to roll back the tariffs https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-manufacturers-blame-trump-era-tariffs-for-inflations-rise-11622387247
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April 25, 2018.
Trump's tariffs cost Ford $1Billion dollars in 2018; it planned layoffs as a way to stay alive
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/trump-s-tariffs-have-already-cost-ford-1b-now-it-n917756
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2018
U.S. farmers lost their 4th largest export market after China officially cancelled all purchases of U.S. agricultural products, a retaliatory move following President Donald Trump’s pledge to slap 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/10/trump-is-ruining-our-markets-farmers-lose-a-huge-customer-to-trade-war----china.html
HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COUNTRY IF EVER ALLOWED IN THE WHITE HOUSE--THATS ALL HE KNOWS TO DO, BANKRUPT DESTROY STEAL
YES HE IS A RACIST--He's told us and shown us. The Trump files
**How a Racist President Is Trying To Woo Black Voters And A Reminder of How We Got Here**
1. Trump ally held an event at which they were handing out cash to black attendees.--trying to show that African Americans like free stuff--i am sure there are lots and lots of photos
2. Trump campaign Super Bowl ad that featured the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 64-year-old black grandmother from Mississippi, who was convicted and sentenced==the ad had numerous lies
3. The ad touted Trump’s support for the criminal justice reform bill passed by Congress. But that had nothing to do with Johnson’s release, which was the result of a presidential commutation.
4. **Trump was able to sign the criminal justice reform bill because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell obstructed a similar bill from passing during Obama’s presidency.**
5. While Trump lauds his support for criminal justice reform, his Department of Justice limited the number of inmates who might benefit from it.
6. **Trump ruled on only 204 clemency requests — 24 approvals and 180 denials. That is the slowest pace in decades.-yet he acts like he is some sort of orange savior shouting from the mountain top--he did find the time to first pardon racist extrodinaire sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been a vocal Trump supporter--Joe Arpaio played a big giant role in the birtherism skit--flying people to hawaii to harrass city and county executives about Obama's birth certificate--LET THIS SINK IN--THE FIRST PERSON TRUMP PARDONED--Vowed To Keep Pushing Birtherism IN 2018 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/28/597523854/senate-candidate-joe-arpaio-vows-to-keep-pushing-birtherism**
7. 2011: **Trump argued that Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School**, and demanded Obama release his transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard that President Obama was a terrible student.**OBAMA WAS HEAD OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW-- THE HIGHEST STUDENT POSITION AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL--HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT ELECTED TO THAT ROLE--HARVARD WAS ESTABLISHED 388 YRS AGO IN 1636**
8. Trump administration made it easier for banks to reject loans for people of color https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-seeking-roll-back-housing-desegregation-rules-discrimination-fair-act-2020-1-1028848036
9. AND When African Americans do get approved--Trump tried to Make Mortgages More Expensive for Minorities https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/donald-trump-fannie-mae-freddie-mac
10. In a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office in January 2018, Trump argued against restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti and African nations, describing them as “shithole countries,”
11. Trump have failed to disavow the Ku Klux Klan in late February 2016 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/29/donald-trump-marco-rubio-david-duke-ku-klux-klan/81101906/
12. Some of his top advisers and cabinet picks have histories of prejudice --Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, was executive chairman of Breitbart, a news site that Bannon dubbed the “home of the alt-right
13. The Justice Department sued his company ― twice ― for not renting to black people.
14. Workers at Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have accused him of racism over the years. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $200,000 in 1992 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine.
15. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,”
16. Trump disparaged his black casino employees as “lazy” in vividly bigoted terms
17. Trump nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States. The Senate refused to confirm Sessions as a federal judge in 1986 amid accusations that he’d made racially insensitive comments
18. Steve Mnuchin Treasury secretary, faces allegations of profiting from racial discrimination. , Mnuchin purchased a troubled mortgage bank, sped up its foreclosure rate. Along the way, Mnuchin’s bank came under fire from housing rights groups for racist practices like lending to very few people of color and maintaining foreclosed-upon properties in neighborhoods that were predominantly black and brown less than in white neighborhoods.
19. There were nearly 900 hate incidents across the U.S. in the 10 days following the 2016 election, a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center found. In nearly 40 percent of those incidents, the SPLC found, people explicitly invoked the Trump's name or his campaign slogans
20. He condoned the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester--At a November 2015 campaign rally in Alabama, Trump supporters physically attacked an African-American protester after the man began chanting “Black lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after he has already fallen to the ground.
21. He questioned whether President Obama was born in the United States--for almost a decade and has not provided any evidence he claimed to have had
22. He encouraged the mob justice that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park 5.--he continues to appeal to mob justice even after the central park five were found to be innocent by DNA evidence
23. Al Sharpton blasted Trump for holding no events on MLK Day https://www.newsweek.com/insult-american-people-al-sharpton-trump-mlk-day-events-1299344
24. Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061
25. African Americans had higher income prior to the Trump administration. A black household earned median income of $40,258 in 2017, the latest data available. That’s below a 2000 peak of $42,348, according to the Census Bureau https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27
26. The most dramatic drop in black unemployment came under Obama, when it fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in January 2017 --its currently aroud 6 percent but rose dramatically during the Trump administration. https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27
27. Trump’s tax law disproportionately hurt African Americans.-They were left out from Trump’s tax cut. African American households received only 5% of the benefits from Trump’s tax law, despite making up 13% of U.S. households. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/how-trumps-tax-cuts-favor-whites-over-minorities/
28. The Trump administration decided to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to reduce pollution and improve public health. This action directly affects people of color, since, according to the EPA, they are more likely to live near pollution-emitting power plants, making them more susceptible to dangerous health disorders such as asthma and cardiovascular disease.
29. Trump's Department of Interior reversed an Obama-era strategic plan to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in its parks hiring https://www.outsideonline.com/2256526/doi-wants-preserve-inequality-our-parks
30. Jeff Sessions overturned so-called smart on crime approaches to criminal justice by directing prosecutors to pursue the harshest drug sentences possible, without consideration of an individual’s role in a drug conspiracy. This reversal will contribute to the overincarceration of African Americans, who remain more than twice as likely to be arrested for drug possession than whites http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HolderMandatoryMinimumsMemo.pdf
31. Attorney General Sessions reversed a DOJ plan to reduce its use of private prisons, which profit from the war on drugs and house a greater share of people of color than public prisons.
32. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.
33. Trump administration wanted to eliminate the U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), which provides business consulting services to people of color who wish to start or expand their own businesses
34. Trump's Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color
35. Trump wanted to freeze Pell Grant awards—which help nearly two-thirds of African American students and half of Latino students pay for college
36. Trump attacked African American professional athletes for protesting systemic racism
37. Trump did however praise the good people on both sides--In response to white nationalists rampaging through Charlottesville,And ultimately murdering a counter protester and injuring dozens more
38. Trump tweeted that several black & brown members of Congress are “from countries whose governments are a total catastrophe” that they should “go back” to those countries. aimed at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, & Rashida Tlaib --**ALL 4 ARE AMERICAN**
39. Trump regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign
40. Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election https://www.theroot.com/trump-believes-giving-black-voters-access-to-voting-is-1843418169
41. Not a single appellate court judge appointed to the bench in his forst term was black, He did appoint several white folk who were unqualified according to the ABA-AmaericanBar Association
**In the grand tradition of everything Trump touches dies--
#Hate crimes reportedly jumped by 226 percent in counties that hosted Trump campaign rallies https://www.vox.com/2019/3/24/18279807/trump-hate-crimes-study-white-nationalism**Research Center.
42. Some would argue that having a racist as the head of a party doesn’t necessarily make the entire party racist, which is true. But there is not a single significant poll that shows Republican voters with lower negative feelings about non-white populations versus Democrats or independents. They have become the party of racism
43. Minnesota Officials Link Arrested Looters to White Supremacist Groups--- floyd https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-officials-link-arrested-looters-to-white-supremacist-groups/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minnesota-officials-link-arrested-looters-to-white-supremacist-groups
**If Ku Klux Klan members started wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts, would that automatically make them a civil rights organization? No, But Trump is trying desparately to get us to that point by normalizing such nonsense**
Trump's Closing Pitch to Voters: I Will Let You Die If You Don't Bow to My Demands
Source: rollingstone
Politico later reported that while president in 2018, Trump initially refused to approve federal aid for California to fight wildfires because he felt some of the affected regions didn’t support him. It was only after Trump was shown data about the regions voting for him that he approved the relief. “We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas … to show him these are people who voted for you,” Mark Harvey, then Trump’s senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff, told Politico.
A year earlier, Trump blocked congressionally approved aid to Puerto Rico, an American territory populated by American citizens, in the wake of Hurricane Maria — during which Trump was publicly attacking Carmen Yulín Cruz, then the mayor of San Juan, for not being more grateful to him — and then tried to obstruct an investigation into what happened to the money.
Trump also notably tried to intimidate Democratic governors during the Covid-19 pandemic, when states were desperate for federal aid. “It’s a two-way street,” Trump said of offering New York and other states federal help as the crisis continued to claim American lives. “They have to treat us well, too.”
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-threatens-let-americans-die-1235137748/
Kremlin confirms Trump secretly sent Covid tests to Putin at peak of pandemic
Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says
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Yes, Trump Said He Offered Russia Help With Wildfires.
WATCH: Walz rolls out Harris plan to improve lives of rural Americans
Source: www.pbs.org
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday unveiled his ticket’s plans to improve the lives of rural voters, as Vice President Kamala Harris looks to cut into former President Donald Trump’s support. The Harris-Walz plan includes a focus on improving rural health care, such as plans to recruit 10,000 new health care professionals in rural and tribal areas through scholarships, loan forgiveness and new grant programs, as well as economic and agricultural policy priorities. The plan was detailed to The Associated Press by a senior campaign official on the condition of anonymity ahead of its official release.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-walz-rolls-out-harris-plan-to-improve-lives-of-rural-americans
Ways the Trump Administration Failed Rural America
1 He Cut the Postal Service
2 He Proposed draconian cuts to rural investments
3 He endangered meatpacking workers and consumers
4 He sacrificed small and medium farms in his trade wars
5 He Left farmers of color in the lurch
6 He sabotaged essential agriculture market data and research
,Aug 10 2019 CNBC ARTICLE
‘Trump is ruining our markets’: Struggling farmers are losing a huge customer to the trade war — China https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/10/trump-is-ruining-our-markets-farmers-lose-a-huge-customer-to-trade-war----china.html
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