Donald Trump is outlining steps he would take to bring back American jobs and address past trade deals, which he says have hurt the USA economy.
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In response to the worst mass shooting in recent American history, which targeted LGBT people of color, Trump asked the public to congratulate him “for being right on radical Islamic terrorism”.
“It was also Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, who shoved us into a job-killing deal with South Korea in 2012”, Trump said. She raised specific concerns about a potential for currency manipulation by China and provisions that she said would benefit pharmaceutical companies at the expense of patients.
Today Donald Trump delivered a major speech on the economy in Pennsylvania, titled “Declaring America’s Economic Independence”.
“It is simply sloppy to attribute a slowdown in growth to China and the WTO while ignoring the financial crisis, Great Recession, and misguided Obama Administration economic policies”, added Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and now president of a conservative think tank, the American Action Forum.
Brewer’s comments came just a few days after she erupted during a CNN panel, saying she was exhausted of being labeled a bigot herself because she supports Trump.
With the aid of a teleprompter, Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated the defiant anthem of his campaign: selfish businesses are sending American jobs overseas, and politicians have let it happen by approving bad trade policies.
Trump’s declaration seems to echo the sentiment expressed by Brexit advocates, who successfully encouraged United Kingdom voters to ignore – what was dubbed – Project Fear, in which the Remain campaign recruited establishment politicians and executives from multinational firms to offer grave predictions about a possible Brexit – created to convince the victims of globalization that they had to remain in their current economic structure.
“I am sympathetic”, she said, “to a lot of the people attracted to Trump’s messages who are feeling really left out and left behind”.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is holding a town hall discussion in Los Angeles with digital content creators on Tuesday afternoon.
Hillary Clinton has an 11 point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump, a new poll shows.
The results demonstrate that voters find “Clinton’s forceful, fact-based approach” preferable to “Trump’s over-the-top ranting”, remarked Daily Kos contributor Mark Sumner. “The legacy of Pennsylvania steelworkers lives in the bridges, railways and skyscrapers that make up our great American landscape”, Trump waxed romantically on Tuesday.
Should Democrats lie and say, “Yes, we’re going to take your guns away”, so we can pass gun control legislation?
As Trump continued, he vowed to withdraw the United States from the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership and to renegotiate NAFTA (and to withdraw from that agreement if negotiations fail to produce a deal Trump deems good enough). The loss of manufacturing and industrial jobs owe more to automation – machines – than trade, Drezner said.
Dollar, along with other economists, said there was no backdoor in the TPP agreement for China to enter through, and praised the proposal as one made among a group of countries with which the US has relatively balanced trade and promotes good jobs.
But when Trump had the opportunity to use Pennsylvania steel, he chose not to because it was too expensive. I would like to see less emphasis on trade and more on regulation, but from a political standpoint, Trump’s formula will be effective.
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But now, Trump’s national security adviser has announced that Trump merely called for a ban on all Muslims – something that made worldwide headlines, is grossly unconstitutional, and been used in recruiting videos by ISIS, putting America at risk – was merely something he did to make a point, to start a conversation.
