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Robert Reich on Donald John Trump's promises.

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Update for Trump Voters #2
1. He told you NATO was “obsolete,” claiming it doesn’t fight terrorism. You bought it. Now he says NATO is “no longer obsolete.”
2. He told you he’d “bring down drug prices” by making deals with drug companies. You bought it. Now the White House says that promise is “inoperative.”
3. He said he’d close “special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers." You bought it. Then he picked a Wall Street financier Stephen Schwarzman to run his strategic and policy forum, who compares closing those loopholes to Hitler’s invasion of Poland.
4. He said that on Day One he’d label China a “currency manipulator.” You bought it. Then he met with China’s president and declared "China is not a currency manipulator."
5. He said he’d “renegotiate NAFTA” on Day One. You bought it. He hasn't.
6. He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria.
7. He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s unlikely that we will build a wall.”
8. He said he’d clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. Then he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, along with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for.
9. He said he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “wonderful.” You bought it. Then he didn’t.
10. He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. Then he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge.
11. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.
12. He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You bought it. He remains heavily involved in his businesses, makes money off of foreign dignitaries staying at his Washington hotel, gets China to give the Trump brand trademark and copyright rights, travels to promote his properties at taxpayer expense, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.
13. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.
14. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it. Then he put Betsy DeVos, opponent of public education, in charge of education; Jeff Sessions, opponent of the Voting Rights Act, in charge of voting rights; Ben Carson, opponent of the Fair Housing Act, in charge of fair housing; Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Russian quisling Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.
10. He said he’d faithfully execute the law. You bought it. Then he said his predecessor, Barack Obama, spied on him, without any evidence of Obama ever doing so, in order to divert attention from the FBI’s investigation into collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to win the election.
15. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the generals did. You bought it. Then he green lighted a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though his generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained.
16. He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. He has by now spent more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business.
17. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. Now he gets his information from Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.
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Isn't he precious.:thumbup:

Like I said before..........I am watching his actions, and hardly consider what he is saying. Trump is doing an excellent job, and the libtards' heads are exploding.

As a candidate, it was humorous. As President, not so much

"A new Gallup poll out this morning, however, strongly suggests that an increasing number of Americans just don’t believe Trump’s spin about his presidency anymore. It finds that only 45 percent of Americans think Trump keeps his promises, down from 62 percent in February, an astonishing slide of 17 points:"

This brutal new poll shows that fewer and fewer people believe Trump’s lies - The Washington Post

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Humorous until James Chaney decided that Anthony Weiner's sex e-mails were somehow relevant to the Presidential Election and the Russians were spreading their Fake news about Clinton through robobots.

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What happened, MSM did not have any negative Trump crap today??

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Of course, Hillary did not lose the election due to anything she did wrong...:a20:

Before you give any credence to Robert Reich's assessments you may want to do some research on Robert Reich.

Perhaps that is too cumbersome and since he rallies against Trump well then he must be right.

It would seem that one who looses objectivity also loses credibility. To suggest, indeed to believe, that if it is a negative about Trump it must be right just reeks of confirmation bias.

A serious person would ignore social media groupies and think for him/herself. and such thinking ought to be focus primarily on policy vis a vis person.

Objectivity would require a fair and balance analysis . Much is being made of Trump' s foolishness as respects Syria and North Korea but hose who criticize never mention that people in Obama's foreign policy department have spoken out explaining that Obama's deficiencies in foreign policy have made the world a more dangerous place.

if this were a chess game then we would have Obama who left the board with the king in check and Trump now sitting at the table deciding the next move.

"Jawboning" is a term not used much more in politics but it is an essential technique and one Trump uses quite effectively.

He also utilizes the resources around him before deciding.

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Does anyone actually pay any attention to what Robert Reich says anymore? He has been so wrong, so many times and is currently irrelevant.

I think that he opens his mouth every so often hoping that he might be able to sell another book.

Look at what Robert Reich writes rather than what others say about him. His criticisms against Donald John Trump look very relevant and accurate.

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Look at what Robert Reich writes rather than what others say about him. His criticisms against Donald John Trump look very relevant and accurate.

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I can see where dirtbanker gets his ideas.

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I can see where dirtbanker gets his ideas.

They are relevant, much more than the whacky Russian web sites being promoted today.

And you wonder why people think Trump had a dog and is sad because it is sick, when he never had a dog, or where ever all this crap comes from.

"Washington (CNN)Two stories dealing with Russia's meddling in the election broke Tuesday night. And both were full of bad news for President Donald Trump.

The first, an exclusive to CNN, revealed that a number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees who have seen classified documents see no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, further suggesting Rep. Devin Nunes, R-California, misled Trump (and the public) when he described documents relating to the unmasking of Trump campaign officials caught up in an incidental collection operation by the intelligence community.

"Their private assessment contradicts President Donald Trump's allegations that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice broke the law by requesting the "unmasking" of US individuals' identities. Trump had claimed the matter was a 'massive story.'"

The second, broken by The Washington Post, reveals that the FBI obtained a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court court warrant in August 2016 aimed at monitoring the communications of one-time Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page. The key paragraph:

"The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page's communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials."

Scroll up. Read that one again. It's a "wow." Page has denied any wrongdoing."

Russia story keeps getting worse for President Trump - CNNPolitics.com

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Please stop babbling. You are starting to sound like Tal. You make me want to cry.