Remember When...

Remember when I said that the real reason Donald Trump imposed tariffs was to extort campaign contributions?

Trump plans to use the tariffs to extort campaign contributions from companies:

A top trade adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday a process will be in place for businesses to get exemptions from the White House plan to place steep tariffs on steel and aluminum, offering the first indication a tariff hike could be less broad than first thought.

Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, said countries will not be excluded from the tariffs because that would become a slippery slope, but there will be a mechanism for corporate exemptions in some cases.

I was right! A foreigner (Canadians still count as foreigners as far as the FEC is concerned) has copped a non-plea for illegally contributing to a Trump super PAC to get Trump to tighten steel import restrictions, to the advantage of Canada.

A Canadian steel industry billionaire illegally helped steer $1.75 million in donations to a pro-Trump super PAC and has agreed to pay one of the largest fines ever levied by the Federal Election Commission to settle the case, the commission said on Friday.

 

When it comes right down to it, Trump accomplished nothing on his own, except for the tariffs.

 

Supreme Court justices? Mitch McConnell. 

 

Tax cuts? Mitch McConnell. 

 

Getting the United States out of the forever war in Afghanistan? After having our negotiators bend over the conference table for the Taliban, hanging our allies in the Afghan government out to dry, those allies had all bolted when Biden actually had to implement Trump's fabulous deal, leaving the US with a disaster at the Kabul airport.

Our relationship with dictatorial powers like Russia, North Korea and China? Trump gave classified intelligence to the Russian ambassador in the Oval Office. All Trump could do during his entire term was suck up to his idols Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. All his tough talk on China amounted to nothing. Even after Putin has massacred thousands of innocent Ukrainians, Trump and his Fox news cronies continue to fellate the Russian dicator.

 

The only thing Trump actually did was impose tariffs, and it just messed up American exports and raised prices Americans paid for TVs and computers.

 

Trump was the poster boy for corruption and incompetence. Why on earth does anyone still listen to this idiot? Why isn't he rotting in jail for January 6th?