Trumps Indictment: Historical and Future Implications IV
I don't know about anywhere else in the world, but rent prices are outrageous here in the U.S.
Biden announces plan to cap rent hikes
President Joe Biden has announced a new plan to halt rent increases in the US, as Americans battle soaring housing prices.
Mr Biden's proposal - which requires congressional approval - would cut off tax credits for landlords who try to raise rent by more than 5%.
The policy would apply to landlords who own more than 50 units, comprising about 20 million rental units across the country, according to the Biden administration.
Mr Biden said he hoped this plan would send a "clear message to corporate landlords".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1we330wvn0o
Biden announces plan to cap rent hikes
President Joe Biden has announced a new plan to halt rent increases in the US, as Americans battle soaring housing prices.
Mr Biden's proposal - which requires congressional approval - would cut off tax credits for landlords who try to raise rent by more than 5%.
The policy would apply to landlords who own more than 50 units, comprising about 20 million rental units across the country, according to the Biden administration.
Mr Biden said he hoped this plan would send a "clear message to corporate landlords".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1we330wvn0o
Hitlerism? trumpism?
" Educators who facilitate..."
the pornography this project 2025
refers to is another smear campaign
designed to make it easier to remove
the decent educators with cheaper
gop rubbish.
Hitler did similar when he demonized
the health service for keeping alive the
chronically disabled and he is
on record as saying " the disabled would
feel better dead "
This lead to campaigning, spearheaded
by Goebbels's propaganda machine to
appeal to the country (a pretence of democracy )
for the right of euthanasia, on demand, by the parents,
or spouse of the disabled.
A huge amount of people wrote
to the newspapers demanding an avenue to
mercy killing. Although it was all false, a put up
job, the country was provided with that avenue.
So, to get rid of democracy pretend a democratic
process to get rid of those who teach democracy.
Hitler did. He demonised Germany's teachers with
" Communist! " or " Jew " or " Homosexual!" or " Degenerate!"
and used pornography in the rag Der Stürmer to punctuate
his meaning.
Hitlerism? Trumpism? Project 2025ism?
With the best will in the world I can't see much difference
between 'em.
" Educators who facilitate..."
the pornography this project 2025
refers to is another smear campaign
designed to make it easier to remove
the decent educators with cheaper
gop rubbish.
Hitler did similar when he demonized
the health service for keeping alive the
chronically disabled and he is
on record as saying " the disabled would
feel better dead "
This lead to campaigning, spearheaded
by Goebbels's propaganda machine to
appeal to the country (a pretence of democracy )
for the right of euthanasia, on demand, by the parents,
or spouse of the disabled.
A huge amount of people wrote
to the newspapers demanding an avenue to
mercy killing. Although it was all false, a put up
job, the country was provided with that avenue.
So, to get rid of democracy pretend a democratic
process to get rid of those who teach democracy.
Hitler did. He demonised Germany's teachers with
" Communist! " or " Jew " or " Homosexual!" or " Degenerate!"
and used pornography in the rag Der Stürmer to punctuate
his meaning.
Hitlerism? Trumpism? Project 2025ism?
With the best will in the world I can't see much difference
between 'em.
Rew said:Hitlerism? trumpism?
" Educators who facilitate..."
the pornography this project 2025
refers to is another smear campaign
designed to make it easier to remove
the decent educators with cheaper
gop rubbish.
Hitler did similar when he demonized
the health service for keeping alive the
chronically disabled and he is
on record as saying " the disabled would
feel better dead "
This lead to campaigning, spearheaded
by Goebbels's propaganda machine to
appeal to the country (a pretence of democracy )
for the right of euthanasia, on demand, by the parents,
or spouse of the disabled.
A huge amount of people wrote
to the newspapers demanding an avenue to
mercy killing. Although it was all false, a put up
job, the country was provided with that avenue.
So, to get rid of democracy pretend a democratic
process to get rid of those who teach democracy.
Hitler did. He demonised Germany's teachers with
" Communist! " or " Jew " or " Homosexual!" or " Degenerate!"
and used pornography in the rag Der Stürmer to punctuate
his meaning.
Hitlerism? Trumpism? Project 2025ism?
With the best will in the world I can't see much difference
between 'em.
Excellent, Rew. Though I hear and have read that it's much easier to read in German than English.
" Educators who facilitate..."
the pornography this project 2025
refers to is another smear campaign
designed to make it easier to remove
the decent educators with cheaper
gop rubbish.
Hitler did similar when he demonized
the health service for keeping alive the
chronically disabled and he is
on record as saying " the disabled would
feel better dead "
This lead to campaigning, spearheaded
by Goebbels's propaganda machine to
appeal to the country (a pretence of democracy )
for the right of euthanasia, on demand, by the parents,
or spouse of the disabled.
A huge amount of people wrote
to the newspapers demanding an avenue to
mercy killing. Although it was all false, a put up
job, the country was provided with that avenue.
So, to get rid of democracy pretend a democratic
process to get rid of those who teach democracy.
Hitler did. He demonised Germany's teachers with
" Communist! " or " Jew " or " Homosexual!" or " Degenerate!"
and used pornography in the rag Der Stürmer to punctuate
his meaning.
Hitlerism? Trumpism? Project 2025ism?
With the best will in the world I can't see much difference
between 'em.
Excellent, Rew. Though I hear and have read that it's much easier to read in German than English.
Just a PSA that it's not just "liberal" "commies" that are against Trump, but retired Reagan Republican servicemen:
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1813743605213020431
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1813743605213020431
Unconfirmed:
Newsmax is reporting that President Joe Biden has already agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee for President, which could happen as early as this weekend.
Biden is also not expected to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor. The decision has sparked speculation about who Harris might choose as her running mate if she becomes the Democratic nominee, with names like Shapiro, Newsom, Whitmer, Sanders, and Castro being suggested. There is also discussion about the potential impact of Biden's decision on the Democratic party and the upcoming election.
Newsmax is reporting that President Joe Biden has already agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee for President, which could happen as early as this weekend.
Biden is also not expected to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor. The decision has sparked speculation about who Harris might choose as her running mate if she becomes the Democratic nominee, with names like Shapiro, Newsom, Whitmer, Sanders, and Castro being suggested. There is also discussion about the potential impact of Biden's decision on the Democratic party and the upcoming election.
July 18, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JUL 19, 2024
Paul Manafort walking onto the floor of the Republican National Convention yesterday illustrated that the Republican Party under Trump has become thoroughly corrupted into an authoritarian party aligned with foreign dictators.
Manafort first advised and then managed Trump’s 2016 campaign. A long-time Republican political operative, he came to the job after the Ukrainian people threw his client,Viktor Yanukovych out of Ukraine’s presidency in 2014. Yanukovych was backed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, who was determined to prevent Ukraine from turning toward Europe and to install a puppet government that would extend his power over the neighboring country.
Beginning in 2004, Manafort had worked to install and then keep Yanukovych and his party in power. His efforts won him a fortune thanks to his new friends, especially Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Then in 2014, after months of popular protests, Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych from power in what is known as the Revolution of Dignity.
Yanukovych fled to Russia, and Putin invaded Ukraine’s Crimea and annexed it, prompting the United States and the European Union to impose economic sanctions on Russia itself and also on specific Russian businesses and oligarchs, prohibiting them from doing business in United States territories. These sanctions crippled Russia and froze the assets of key Russian oligarchs.
Now without his main source of income, Manafort owed about $17 million to Deripaska. By 2016, his longtime friend and business partner Roger Stone was advising Trump’s floundering presidential campaign, and Manafort stepped in to remake it. He did not take a salary but reached out to Deripaska through one of his Ukrainian business partners, Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik, immediately after landing the job, asking Kilimnik how “we” could use the appointment “to get whole,” and he made sure that the Russian oligarch to whom he owed the most money knew about his close connection with the Trump campaign.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election explained at least one answer: Manafort and Kilimnick “discussed a plan to resolve the ongoing political problems in Ukraine by creating an autonomous republic in its more industrialized eastern region of Donbas, and having Yanukovych…elected to head that republic.” The report continued: “That plan, Manafort later acknowledged, constituted a ‘backdoor’ means for Russia to control eastern Ukraine.”
This policy was the exact opposite of official U.S. policy for a free and united Ukraine. Russia worked to help Trump win the White House, and immediately after his election, according to the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee, Kilimnick wrote that “[a]ll that is required to start the process is a very minor ‘wink’ (or slight push) from D[onald] T[rump] saying ‘he wants peace in Ukraine and Donbass back in Ukraine’ and a decision to be a ‘special representative’ and manage this process.” The email went on to say that once then–Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko understood this “message” from the United States, the process “will go very fast and DT could have peace in Ukraine basically within a few months after inauguration.”
The investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia slowed the consummation of this plan, and strong bipartisan support for Ukraine threw a monkey wrench into the works, prompting Trump’s cronies to try to smear Ukraine as the country that interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, a story that began to come out during Trump’s first impeachment hearing. Biden’s election meant an abrupt end to Russia’s quiet absorption of Ukraine’s eastern region, and in February 2022, Putin simply invaded the country and then claimed that the people there had voted to join Russia.
Trump seemed to bring this back up at a CNN event in June in which, referring to Putin’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in February 2022, he said: “Putin saw that, he said, you know what, I think we’re going to go in and maybe take my—this was his dream. I talked to him about it, his dream.” Trump has said he has a plan for “peace” in Ukraine that will stop the war in a day.
Republican vice presidential pick J.D. Vance is wildly inexperienced for such a position, but he has been staunchly in favor of ending U.S. assistance to Ukraine and was the pick of that party faction. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov cheered Vance’s nomination, saying: “He’s in favor of peace, he’s in favor of ending the assistance that’s being provided and we can only welcome that because that’s what we need—to stop pumping Ukraine full of weapons and then the war will end.” Russia needs this sort of help, for just this week Ukraine forced it to remove its last remaining patrol ship from occupied Crimea (when the 2022 invasion began, it held most of its 74 Black Sea Fleet warships at ports there).
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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JUL 19, 2024
Paul Manafort walking onto the floor of the Republican National Convention yesterday illustrated that the Republican Party under Trump has become thoroughly corrupted into an authoritarian party aligned with foreign dictators.
Manafort first advised and then managed Trump’s 2016 campaign. A long-time Republican political operative, he came to the job after the Ukrainian people threw his client,Viktor Yanukovych out of Ukraine’s presidency in 2014. Yanukovych was backed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, who was determined to prevent Ukraine from turning toward Europe and to install a puppet government that would extend his power over the neighboring country.
Beginning in 2004, Manafort had worked to install and then keep Yanukovych and his party in power. His efforts won him a fortune thanks to his new friends, especially Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Then in 2014, after months of popular protests, Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych from power in what is known as the Revolution of Dignity.
Yanukovych fled to Russia, and Putin invaded Ukraine’s Crimea and annexed it, prompting the United States and the European Union to impose economic sanctions on Russia itself and also on specific Russian businesses and oligarchs, prohibiting them from doing business in United States territories. These sanctions crippled Russia and froze the assets of key Russian oligarchs.
Now without his main source of income, Manafort owed about $17 million to Deripaska. By 2016, his longtime friend and business partner Roger Stone was advising Trump’s floundering presidential campaign, and Manafort stepped in to remake it. He did not take a salary but reached out to Deripaska through one of his Ukrainian business partners, Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik, immediately after landing the job, asking Kilimnik how “we” could use the appointment “to get whole,” and he made sure that the Russian oligarch to whom he owed the most money knew about his close connection with the Trump campaign.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election explained at least one answer: Manafort and Kilimnick “discussed a plan to resolve the ongoing political problems in Ukraine by creating an autonomous republic in its more industrialized eastern region of Donbas, and having Yanukovych…elected to head that republic.” The report continued: “That plan, Manafort later acknowledged, constituted a ‘backdoor’ means for Russia to control eastern Ukraine.”
This policy was the exact opposite of official U.S. policy for a free and united Ukraine. Russia worked to help Trump win the White House, and immediately after his election, according to the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee, Kilimnick wrote that “[a]ll that is required to start the process is a very minor ‘wink’ (or slight push) from D[onald] T[rump] saying ‘he wants peace in Ukraine and Donbass back in Ukraine’ and a decision to be a ‘special representative’ and manage this process.” The email went on to say that once then–Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko understood this “message” from the United States, the process “will go very fast and DT could have peace in Ukraine basically within a few months after inauguration.”
The investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia slowed the consummation of this plan, and strong bipartisan support for Ukraine threw a monkey wrench into the works, prompting Trump’s cronies to try to smear Ukraine as the country that interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, a story that began to come out during Trump’s first impeachment hearing. Biden’s election meant an abrupt end to Russia’s quiet absorption of Ukraine’s eastern region, and in February 2022, Putin simply invaded the country and then claimed that the people there had voted to join Russia.
Trump seemed to bring this back up at a CNN event in June in which, referring to Putin’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in February 2022, he said: “Putin saw that, he said, you know what, I think we’re going to go in and maybe take my—this was his dream. I talked to him about it, his dream.” Trump has said he has a plan for “peace” in Ukraine that will stop the war in a day.
Republican vice presidential pick J.D. Vance is wildly inexperienced for such a position, but he has been staunchly in favor of ending U.S. assistance to Ukraine and was the pick of that party faction. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov cheered Vance’s nomination, saying: “He’s in favor of peace, he’s in favor of ending the assistance that’s being provided and we can only welcome that because that’s what we need—to stop pumping Ukraine full of weapons and then the war will end.” Russia needs this sort of help, for just this week Ukraine forced it to remove its last remaining patrol ship from occupied Crimea (when the 2022 invasion began, it held most of its 74 Black Sea Fleet warships at ports there).
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Cont from above
Manafort was convicted of a slew of criminal charges for his work with Ukraine and obstruction of the investigation into the connections between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives, and was serving a seven-year sentence when Trump pardoned him in December 2020. Now he is back at the center of Trump’s MAGA Party.
Before 2016 the Republican Party stood staunchly against Russia, and getting Republican voters to forget that history required adopting the argument of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who is aligned with Putin and Trump, that democracy has ruined the United States. In this argument, the central principle of democracy—that all people must be equal before the law, and have a right to a say in their government—destroys a country by making women, people of color, immigrants, members of religious minorities, and LGBTQ+ individuals equal to heteronormative white men and permitting them to influence government. In place of democracy, they want to impose their version of Christianity on the nation, banning abortion, rejecting immigrants, and curtailing the rights of gender, religious, and ethnic minorities.
Josh Kovensky and John Light of Talking Points Memo picked up that in his speech at the Republican convention last night, Vance pushed back against President Joe Biden’s traditional idea that America is an idea, tying it instead to a place and a people. As Kovensky and Light note, this is “a somewhat-quiet, somewhat-obvious dog whistle, gesturing toward the idea there are, as some on the far-right contend, ‘heritage Americans,’” native-born Americans who have a deeper understanding than newcomers of what this country means. That view of nationhood is commonplace elsewhere, Kovensky and Light note, but its absence in the U.S. “has long made our country exceptional.”
This nationalist concept is at the heart of MAGA attacks on immigrants, which were in full display at the convention yesterday. From the podium yesterday, Thomas Homan, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Trump’s first two years in office, told undocumented immigrants: “You better start packing to go home.” Trump has promised to round up 11 million migrants (although he claims there are 18 million) currently living in the U.S., put them in camps, and deport them. There were actually preprinted signs at the convention for attendees to wave, which they did with apparent enthusiasm. The signs said: “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!”
The convention has also emphasized its opposition to women’s rights. Trump, who has proudly claimed responsibility for the Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing abortion as a constitutional right, walked out last night to the song “It’s a Man’s World.” By focusing on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to enforce it, as the protector of “Life,” the Republican platform covertly endorses a national abortion ban.
Their rejection of democracy requires a strongman at the head of the government, and in Milwaukee that man is Trump, who will be the first convicted criminal nominated for president by a major party. He was convicted for trying to tip the 2016 election by hiding payments to an adult-film actress after they had sex, in order to keep the story from voters.
Conference attendees are honoring Trump with large bandages on their right ear as a tribute to an injury he sustained in a shooting attempt on Saturday, although—and this is very weird—there has been no information about that injury aside from his own comments and those of his inner circle, a lack the press seems willing to ignore despite their deep interest in every piece of medical information from President Biden. As he did at his criminal trial in Manhattan, Trump keeps nodding off to sleep at the convention.
The theme of the party has been unity, but that unity depends on everyone lauding Trump. Gone are the establishment Republicans that ran the party before 2016; even longer gone are the traditional Republicans who were chased out of the party in the 1990s as “Republicans in Name Only” because they believed government had a role to play in the economy and did not see tax cuts as the solution to everything. In the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch wrote: “Here in Milwaukee, the political pundits finally saw the thing they’ve been pleading for—unity—and what that really looks like. It looks a lot like Jonestown,” where a cult leader took the lives of his followers in 1978.
In 1959, veteran Robert Biggs wrote to Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had led the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, asking the president to make “direct statements” that would give people the confidence to “back him completely.” Americans needed “more of the attitude of a commanding officer who knows the goal and the mission and states, without evasion, the way it is to be done.”
Eisenhower answered that “in a democracy debate is the breath of life. This is to me what Lincoln meant by government ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people.’”
“[D]ictatorial systems make one contribution to their people which leads them to tend to support such systems—freedom from the necessity of informing themselves and making up their own minds concerning…tremendous complex and difficult questions,” Eisenhower wrote. “But while this responsibility is a taxing one to a free people it is their great strength as well—from millions of individual free come new ideas, new adjustments to emerging problems, and tremendous vigor, vitality and progress…. While complete success will always elude us, still it is a quest which is vital to self-government and to our way of life as free men.”
—
Notes: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-18-2024
Manafort was convicted of a slew of criminal charges for his work with Ukraine and obstruction of the investigation into the connections between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives, and was serving a seven-year sentence when Trump pardoned him in December 2020. Now he is back at the center of Trump’s MAGA Party.
Before 2016 the Republican Party stood staunchly against Russia, and getting Republican voters to forget that history required adopting the argument of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who is aligned with Putin and Trump, that democracy has ruined the United States. In this argument, the central principle of democracy—that all people must be equal before the law, and have a right to a say in their government—destroys a country by making women, people of color, immigrants, members of religious minorities, and LGBTQ+ individuals equal to heteronormative white men and permitting them to influence government. In place of democracy, they want to impose their version of Christianity on the nation, banning abortion, rejecting immigrants, and curtailing the rights of gender, religious, and ethnic minorities.
Josh Kovensky and John Light of Talking Points Memo picked up that in his speech at the Republican convention last night, Vance pushed back against President Joe Biden’s traditional idea that America is an idea, tying it instead to a place and a people. As Kovensky and Light note, this is “a somewhat-quiet, somewhat-obvious dog whistle, gesturing toward the idea there are, as some on the far-right contend, ‘heritage Americans,’” native-born Americans who have a deeper understanding than newcomers of what this country means. That view of nationhood is commonplace elsewhere, Kovensky and Light note, but its absence in the U.S. “has long made our country exceptional.”
This nationalist concept is at the heart of MAGA attacks on immigrants, which were in full display at the convention yesterday. From the podium yesterday, Thomas Homan, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Trump’s first two years in office, told undocumented immigrants: “You better start packing to go home.” Trump has promised to round up 11 million migrants (although he claims there are 18 million) currently living in the U.S., put them in camps, and deport them. There were actually preprinted signs at the convention for attendees to wave, which they did with apparent enthusiasm. The signs said: “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!”
The convention has also emphasized its opposition to women’s rights. Trump, who has proudly claimed responsibility for the Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing abortion as a constitutional right, walked out last night to the song “It’s a Man’s World.” By focusing on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to enforce it, as the protector of “Life,” the Republican platform covertly endorses a national abortion ban.
Their rejection of democracy requires a strongman at the head of the government, and in Milwaukee that man is Trump, who will be the first convicted criminal nominated for president by a major party. He was convicted for trying to tip the 2016 election by hiding payments to an adult-film actress after they had sex, in order to keep the story from voters.
Conference attendees are honoring Trump with large bandages on their right ear as a tribute to an injury he sustained in a shooting attempt on Saturday, although—and this is very weird—there has been no information about that injury aside from his own comments and those of his inner circle, a lack the press seems willing to ignore despite their deep interest in every piece of medical information from President Biden. As he did at his criminal trial in Manhattan, Trump keeps nodding off to sleep at the convention.
The theme of the party has been unity, but that unity depends on everyone lauding Trump. Gone are the establishment Republicans that ran the party before 2016; even longer gone are the traditional Republicans who were chased out of the party in the 1990s as “Republicans in Name Only” because they believed government had a role to play in the economy and did not see tax cuts as the solution to everything. In the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch wrote: “Here in Milwaukee, the political pundits finally saw the thing they’ve been pleading for—unity—and what that really looks like. It looks a lot like Jonestown,” where a cult leader took the lives of his followers in 1978.
In 1959, veteran Robert Biggs wrote to Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had led the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, asking the president to make “direct statements” that would give people the confidence to “back him completely.” Americans needed “more of the attitude of a commanding officer who knows the goal and the mission and states, without evasion, the way it is to be done.”
Eisenhower answered that “in a democracy debate is the breath of life. This is to me what Lincoln meant by government ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people.’”
“[D]ictatorial systems make one contribution to their people which leads them to tend to support such systems—freedom from the necessity of informing themselves and making up their own minds concerning…tremendous complex and difficult questions,” Eisenhower wrote. “But while this responsibility is a taxing one to a free people it is their great strength as well—from millions of individual free come new ideas, new adjustments to emerging problems, and tremendous vigor, vitality and progress…. While complete success will always elude us, still it is a quest which is vital to self-government and to our way of life as free men.”
—
Notes: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-18-2024
Why I'm still Riden with Biden seen at the 12:10 mark...
https://youtu.be/u8yL3I_6Oco?si=pUb7GlDhonYnFDnN
https://youtu.be/u8yL3I_6Oco?si=pUb7GlDhonYnFDnN
MidnightSonneteer said:Why I'm still Riden with Biden seen at the 12:10 mark...
https://youtu.be/u8yL3I_6Oco?si=pUb7GlDhonYnFDnN
Yep.
https://youtu.be/u8yL3I_6Oco?si=pUb7GlDhonYnFDnN
Yep.
Biden's official statement from his Covid-19 isolation:
“I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone.
“The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win.”
“I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone.
“The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win.”
Crime, immigration and tax cuts - Trump's speech fact-checked
CRIME
Crime, immigration and tax cuts - Trump's speech fact-checked
CLAIM: “Our crime rate is going up, while crime statistics all over the world are going down"
VERDICT: Violent crime in the US fell last year.
INFLATION
CLAIM: "We've had the worst inflation we've ever had under this person [Biden]"
VERDICT: Inflation is currently around 3%. That's nowhere near the worst in history. The record was 23.7% in 1920.
GAS-POWERED AUTOMOBILES
CLAIM: "If somebody wants to buy a gas-powered car or a hybrid they are going to be able to do it, and we’re going to make that change on day one." The implication here is that currently Americans cannot buy these cars or will not be able to.
VERDICT: There is no ban on vehicles which run on gas (petrol) in the US and Mr Biden has not set out a plan to introduce one in the future.
IMMIGRANTS
CLAIM: “The jobs that are created [under Biden] - 107% of those jobs are taken by illegal aliens”
VERDICT: Mr Trump is saying here that undocumented migrants are taking jobs from Americans. We can't find any evidence for this figure of 107%.
TAX CUTS
CLAIM: “The biggest tax cuts ever"
VERDICT: As President, Donald Trump did bring in big tax cuts but they weren’t the largest in history, according to experts.
Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/crime-immigration-and-tax-cuts-trump-s-speech-fact-checked/ar-BB1qgkpe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=691099459b854b8a9aec4a7483cf3cf2&ei=18
