The media swooned over Trump’s ability to use a teleprompter at his State of Illusion Address while overlooking the fact that his speechified con was swamped with lies!
In less than 100 days Trump - with help from confirmations and legislation rammed by his
Republican Congress -- Swamped his Cabinet with Goldman Sachs;
- Swamped his Cabinet with individuals who want to destroy the agency they will head;
- Swamped his Cabinet with individuals who know diddly squat about the agency they will head;
- Paved the way for the denial of affordable health care;
- Demolished Obama’s consumer protections against predatory lenders;
- Wreaked “carnage” on Obama’s protections for clean air quality;
- Abolished Obama’s anti-corruption rule for oil, gas and mining companies;
- Gutted funding for the climate satellite system;
- Deregulated Obama’s Stream Protection Rule for clean water sources;
- Rescinded Obama’s civil rights protections for transgender children;
- Wiped out Obama’s mortgage rate deduction program by raising mortgage rates for first time middle class home buyers;
- Ended the Flint water investigation in Michigan;
- Weakened voting rights protections for minorities, Hispanics, college students and the elderly;
- Issued a gag order on access to factual information from the Environmental Protection Agency
- Issued a gag order on access to factual information from the Department of Human Services
- Issued a gag order on access to factual information from the Department of Agriculture;
- Instituted and lied about every aspect of an illegal Muslim Ban;
- Desecrated the sovereignty of Native American sacred lands with the Keystone Pipeline;
- Greenlighted
the environmental hazard of 1,100 miles of Keystone Pipeline dirty
oil from North Dakota to
Illinois;
- Rolled back the transparency law that denied oil, gas and mining companies’ pay-for-play corruption opportunities;
- Cancelled plans for his White House team to get ethics training!?!?
Speaking of ethics, check out the pile of lies dumped by Trump throughout his State of Illusion Address
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We have
begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban
on lobbying by executive branch officials - and a lifetime ban on becoming
lobbyists for a foreign government.”
In addition to the fact that
Trump’s Cabinet is swamped with corporate lobbyists, his five-year ban applies
only to lobbying one’s former agency - not
becoming a lobbyist. Trump actually weakened
some of the language from similar bans under President Obama and George W. Bush, and
reduced the level of transparency.
Since
my election, Ford, Fit, Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, SoftBank, Lockheed,
Intel, Walmart and many others have announced that they will invest billions of
dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American
jobs.
Ford’s decision to abandon its
plans to open a factory in Mexico has more to do with the company’s long-term goal to invest in electric vehicles than with
the Trump administration.Fiat Chrysler’s plan to invest $1 billion on a factory in Michigan was based on negotiations with the United Auto Workers Union.
SoftBank announced its $100
billion technology investment fund three
weeks before the US election!
We have cleared the way for the construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines - thereby creating tens of thousands of jobs - and I’ve issued a new directive that new Americans pipelines be made with American steel.
The actual number of Keystone construction jobs is 3,900 on an annualized basis - and other jobs have already been created. In the context of the US economy, which in January, added 230,000 jobs, these are not many jobs.As for the steel, Trans Canada said in 2013 that it had already purchased all of the steel pipe it needed for the Keystone XL, with the rest coming from Russian-owned plants in Canada, Italy and India.
WE will create massive tax relief for the middle class.
Trump’s tax plan will largely benefit the top income bracket saving the richest millions of dollars a year while leaving families below the top 20 percent of the income bracket with less than 1 percent in savings.
WE’VE defended the borders of other nations while leaving our own borders wide open.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the past 10 years have seen a 90 percent drop in unauthorized border crossings!
The vast majority of terrorist attacks came from people who came over our border.
According to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, “the greatest threat in the US comes from homegrown right-wing extremists increasingly emboldened by Trump‘s own rhetoric! Even more studies demonstrate that immigrants commit far less crimes than right wing extremists
Rather than making “communities safer for everyone”, Trump’s recent immigration raids and racist rhetoric has brought terror to millions of US immigrants and unleashed a wave of racist violence.”
By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.Rather than boosting employment, raising wages, or saving billions, multiple studies suggested Trump’s stated plans on immigration “will likely have a devastating effect on the US economy”. Trump’s immigration crackdown will result in a $381 to $623 billion dollar hit to the US economy in the private sector alone!
America has spent approximately $6 trillion in the Middle East, all this while our infrastructure at home is crumbling. With this $6 trillion we could have rebuilt our country - twice.
The wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia) together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014.
Furthermore, President Obama repeatedly pleaded with the Republican-led Congress to pass a major infrastructure bill from as far back as September, 2011 and never received the Republican-led Congress’ support!
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