29 posts from Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Because Mr. Trump understands that the leading issue in this presidential campaign is the economy, and he has been hammering on the failure of Bidenomics and proposing his own pro-growth alternatives. This is all well over a year, and I'm going to argue that that's one of the key reasons for his enormous lead in the Republican primary polls. And recently, a number of polls show him beating Biden. Yes, it's the economy, stupid. The mainstream media won't report it. So let me just give you some key bullets from the speech. Right after some introductory remarks to the variously assembled South Carolina dignitaries, Mr. Trump launches right in. And I'm going to quote, "One of the most important issues of the campaign will be who can rescue our country from the burning records of Bidenomics." You know what that stands for, right? Henceforth, it will be defined as inflation, taxation, submission, and failure. And then he goes on, "But day one, the Biden economic bust will be replaced with the historic Trump economic boom. The contrast between our agenda's incredible success and Joe Biden's crushing economic values couldn't have been more stark." Let's look at some of the facts comparing Crooked Joe versus President Trump. Under Biden, real incomes have gone down by 7,400 per family, gone down by 7,400 bucks per family. Think of that. Under President Trump, however, yearly income went up on average by $6,000. And he continues, "During Biden's first 30 months in office, just 2.1 million jobs were created. And by contrast, during my 30 months in office, we created 4.9 million new jobs, a record millions and millions more than experts predicted." And then he goes on, "Under Bidenomics, gas prices are again nearing $4 a gallon. Inflation reached the highest level in half a century and mortgage rates pushing a brutal 7%. When I was your president, the 30-year mortgage rate reached a record low of 2.65%. Inflation less than 1.9% and we had gasoline down to $1.87 per gallon." And there's more. Under Biden, the radical Democrats have piled up over $10,000 of job-killing regulatory costs onto the backs of every American household in less than three years. And by contrast, under the Trump administration, we cut the cost of job-killing regulations by an amazing $11,000 per household. Then he goes on, "Still more. Joe Biden immediately shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, surrendered our energy independence and our future dominance, and now he's pushing the largest tax hike in American history." And then Trump continues along this line, citing more facts and more figures. And by the way, pledged to end Biden's government spending spree. And really for the first time, Mr. Trump started talking about a balanced budget and presidential impoundment powers concerning waste, fraud, and abuse. So folks, don't tell me this election is just going to be about court cases. Trump has been running a strong economic growth and prosperity agenda ever since he declared his candidacy. He is a very good politician. He understands that these are going to be kitchen table, pocketbook issues in the lead on the economy. And I will say this, no other candidate in the GOP, and certainly not Joe Biden, is talking about the economy the way Donald Trump is.

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The Biden crime family was taking in money from China, Ukraine, Russia, all these places he has to deal with, and so many others. And now whenever more Biden corruption is exposed, his henchmen charge me with a crime. You know, when they get something on Biden, oh, let's indict, let's add on another indictment to that stupid indictment that we filed. Let's add on another one, because that takes the news cycle. Unfortunately, I get disproportionate publicity. So they indict me, he's right, great balls.

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We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will route the fake news media. We will defeat Crooked Joe Biden, and we will drain the swamp once and for all.

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>> These short years we turned the VA from a national embarrassment into a national example of devotion and service and loyalty to the American veteran. It was amazing, an amazing thing and an amazing success. So we got it done pretty quickly. Once we got the legislation passed, I would say it moved along very quickly. Sadly, Crooked Joe Biden, and that's what he is, he's a stone-cold thief. Crooked Joe Biden has been a disaster for American veterans. As one of his first acts in office, Biden gutted my historic VA reforms. He gutted them out, making it easier to remove bad VA employees from the job. And in a shocking act of betrayal of America's veterans, as well as the tens of thousands of dedicated professionals, and you do have great professionals at the VA, Crooked Joe Biden is in the process of not removing people, but reinstating 5,000 of the 10,000 people that we fired who were fired for good reason, including state instrument this, who were fired for very good reasons, and they want to give them back their full pay. They want to give them their jobs back, and we were very careful about that. We didn't get rid of people haphazardly. We got rid of people that were not doing their job, some really in bad cases and some they just weren't doing their job. They didn't care. They didn't show up to work, and he wants to put at least half of them back, the same people, and it'll cost over $200 million to do that. I'd rather give the money to you directly. It's a lot better. It's amazing. I mean, it's amazing. It breaks your heart. It breaks your heart. That was such a big thing, and now they want to put a lot of those people back. Joe Biden puts bureaucrats first, I put veterans first, and I put America first. (audience applauds)

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>> But when I came into office in 2017, our government had a disgracefully horrible situation going on. They betrayed its solemn pledge to America's veterans. You know that better than anybody. I learned a lot about it from your leadership in this state. Under the Obama-Biden administration, the VA was plagued by one horrific scandal after another. Remember you turn on the news and you just see these horrible scandals having to do with the veterans. You didn't hear any of it. For four years, you literally heard that very little. And we did things that were really amazing and I'm proud of. Thousands of veterans were put on secret medical wait lists and many of them left to die without receiving any care or any aid under Obama. Some very bad people were abusing veterans in VA hospitals, including sadists, yet sadists, they were hitting the veterans when the veterans weren't in prime time, okay? They wouldn't have touched them in prime time, believe me, but they were hitting them when they were in trouble. And a lot of sadists, we got them all out. The VA employees were even caught stealing drugs intended for the treatment of our sick and wounded warriors and they were stealing them and using them for themselves and selling them. But all of that changed when we arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We went from the absolutely worst, Brian, you know that. We went from the absolutely worst to, I mean, that was the worst presidency for the veterans, the previous presidency, wonderful people. You're not allowed to even say that. It's not politically correct, I'll say it, to the greatest champion the veterans ever had in the White House. And it was very much promises made, promises kept, and a couple of the really big ones, just as I promised, I proudly signed the VA Accountability Act, allowing us to quickly terminate VA bureaucrats and bad people who mistreated our vets. We told more than 10,000 bad, corrupt, incompetent VA workers, people that were sadists, and they couldn't get rid, you couldn't get rid of them. You had no right, they could steal, they could beat people up. You couldn't do a damn thing and we got it so you could fire them. And I said, "You're fired! Get out, out, out, out of here, 10,000."

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>> To every veteran in this room, we salute you, and we really do. We worked hard with the veterans, and we've had a fantastic relationship, and this is a very big and important veteran state. I probably learned more about the veterans from dealing in New Hampshire than any other state. Please stand and receive our thanks, all veterans. You mind? Please stand and receive our thanks. >> That's a lot of veterans. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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>> USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA. >> Thank you very much, Will, thank you very much, thank you. This is an honor, I just knocked over a fan on purpose here, it was blowing the hell out of my hair, I said I gotta do a good job in front of New Hampshire, I can't have fans, we don't need anything artificial up here, right, we don't need anything artificial. So I just wanna say hello, New Hampshire, a special place, a great place with many great friends and great people, I'm thrilled to be back in this beautiful state with thousands of proud, and I mean proud, I mean seriously proud, look at this, American patriots who believe in that timeless motto, live free or die, live free.

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