The Donald Trump Score Card

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  1. stormountainman

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    Speaking of scandals: Mitch McDonald Duck just did a Kentucky radio interview where he told Trump not to worry about Junior's subpoena because the "chairman of that committee is not going to find any conclusions" pertaining to Junior.
     
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  4. soulcompromise

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    Yea? I don't know about Mitch McConnell. Isn't he a tea party guy? I always felt like that thing was racist in nature. I don't know why. Maybe just during that time there were lots of angry Americans storming about showing their ignorance; flags a-waving and bumper stickers aplenty. Anyway, I am not totally surprised if he said something off kilter.
     
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    5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures
    By Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner
    May 7, 2019

    5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures

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    "For a time, Mr. Trump was able to stave off his coming collapse with the help of a new public role: He traded on his business-titan brand to present himself as a corporate raider. He would acquire shares in a company with borrowed money, suggest publicly that he was contemplating a takeover, then quietly sell on the resulting bump in the stock price. An occasional quote from a high-profile associate helped burnish the myth.

    “He has an appetite like a Rocky Mountain vulture,” his stockbroker, Alan C. Greenberg, told The Wall Street Journal in 1987. “He’d like to own the world.”

    From 1986 through 1989, Mr. Trump declared $67.3 million in gains from stocks and other assets bought and sold within a year.

    But ultimately, the figures show, he lost most, if not all, of those gains after investors stopped taking his takeover talk seriously."
     
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  7. stormountainman

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    I don't know if Mitch came in with the early tea party or converted. I was attacked on the streets several times during the last three months by guys who had Oath Keepers bumper stickers and Patriot Guard bumper stickers. I don't think Trump was the one who ignited this hate monger Tea Party movement. I think Pence was doing it long years before that.
     
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    dang. I'm sorry to hear that! I guess I wasn't too far off with them being extreme at least.
     
  9. Flagme15

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    McConnell is an ass. Another one that should be put out to pasture.
     
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    You live in southern California, don't you? The world is completely different here in the Midwest. These fuckers here are 100% Nazi. They hate Jews, Mexicans, Muslims, Blacks, and even the guys who they don't know by religion or nationality. They don't know the difference between a man from Pomona or Botswana.
     
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    Trump welcomes Hungary's far-right nationalist prime minister after past presidents shunned him
    By Kevin Liptak, CNN
    Updated 3:39 PM ET, Mon May 13, 2019

    Trump welcomes Viktor Orban, Hungary's far-right nationalist prime minister, after past presidents shunned him - CNNPolitics

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    "Washington (CNN)He's rolled back democratic checks on his power, mused about creating a European ethnostate and erected a razor-wire fence to keep migrants out, angering the rest of the European Union.

    So why was Hungary's far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday?

    "I know he's a tough man but he's a respected man," Trump said during a friendly photo-op at the start of the talks on Monday. "Probably, like me, a little bit controversial, but that's OK. That's OK.""
     
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    Twins
     
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    Trump leaves farmers reeling by intensifying trade war with China
    "Unless something dramatically breaks, I think farmers are really reeling from the realization of where they’re at today," one farm economist said.
    By Vaughn Hillyard and Phil McCausland
    May 13, 2019, 5:48 PM EDT

    Trump leaves farmers reeling by intensifying trade war with China

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    "China announced Monday that, beginning June 1, it would impose tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods. That caused stock markets in the U.S. to tumble, and left farmers to face a future that looks financially bleaker than the historically tough years they have recently faced.

    Because of the Trump administration’s trade tactics, the Congressional Research Service concluded in a report published in December that national net farm income dropped by more than $9 billion, or 12 percent, in 2018."


    "With the most recent news of the intensifying tensions between the U.S. and China, the price of soybeans has dropped below $8 a bushel for the first time since 2008, which comes as many Midwest farmers are facing rampant flooding on their land during the planting season."
     
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    Farmers are just now ready to plant soybeans . Most of these will be sold in 2020 . The current market price is not
    a worry for farmers but for speculative traders who gamble poorly . And then , the great gamblers might well be
    profiting from tumbling prices .

    I resent these stupid farming reports .

    Rampant flooding ? That's for the folks who farm in flood zones . Well , at first the land was cheap and then govt built
    dykes and flood-control dams and then the land was valuable and now the system is old and failing . Billions of pubic
    money to the rescue ?
     
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    I cannot believe that happened to you. I'm so sorry. That's terrible. I hope the they lock the bastards up.
     
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    GOP angst grows amid Trump trade war
    By Alexander Bolton
    05/14/19 06:00 AM EDT

    GOP angst grows amid Trump trade war

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    "In Kansas, Democrats feel they have the best chance in years to capture a Senate seat with Sen. Pat Roberts’s (R-Kan.) retirement.

    Ethan Corson, the executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party, said farmers in his state are losing patience with Trump’s trade wars.

    “Right now it has dragged on far longer than they anticipated and I think their patience is really being tested,” he said. “I think we’re really reaching a breaking point in terms of their willingness to support the Republican trade war,”

    Democrats captured Kansas’s governor’s mansion and the 3nd Congressional District in 2018 and feel they have momentum going into 2020. GOP nervousness about keeping the seat was revealed earlier this year by McConnell’s efforts to woo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former House member from Kansas, to run for Roberts’s seat."
     
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    US disaster aid won't cover lost crops in Midwest floods, farmers out millions of dollars
    By Chaffin Mitchell, AccuWeather staff writer
    April 11, 2019

    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weat...oods-farmers-out-millions-of-dollars/70007922

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    "Reuters reports this is a problem the USDA has never seen on this scale before because U.S. farmers have never stored so much of their harvests.

    Midwestern farmers have been storing their corn and soybeans in unprecedented amounts due to the U.S. and China trade war, according to the BBC.

    Last year, the USDA made $12 billion in aid available to farmers who suffered trade-war losses, but there is no program to cover the catastrophic and largely uninsured stored-crop losses from the widespread flooding."

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  19. Flagme15

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    well, they get who they voted for.
     
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  20. egger

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    Trump still doesn't understand how tariffs work.

    He also mistakenly thinks that reducing the trade deficit will lower the national debt when in fact it will likely raise it due to the higher cost of producing merchandise domestically (which he should know well because of his and his daughter's clothing import businesses).



    Trump pushes for new bailouts for farmers hurt by his trade war
    Trump seeks government help for “great Patriot farmers” who are being hit by China’s retaliatory tariffs.
    By Aaron Rupar
    May 14, 2019, 1:40pm EDT

    Trump pushes for new bailouts for farmers hurt by his trade war

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    "During an Oval Office event with Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orbán on Monday, Trump outlined a plan to redistribute money from American importers to farmers hurt by his escalating trade war with China that might fall short of socialism, but is certainly a far cry from the values of free markets and free trade traditionally embraced by Republicans."


    "Because he doesn’t understand how tariffs actually work, Trump seems to believe this plan represents a redistribution from China to American farmers. But China does not in fact pay for the 25 percent on $200 billion of Chinese goods in tariffs Trump reimposed on Chinese goods after months of negotiations failed to bring the two countries into agreement. Those tariffs are paid by American importers, who often pass the cost along to consumers."
     
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