Republicans, lie after lie, still support the Agent Orange-in-Chief. They know he lies, admit it in fact, yet still “believe in him.” How can that be? He recently held a Cabinet meeting, similar to one held a year ago, where he gave his sycophant Cabinet Secretaries the opportunity to praise glory on the exalted Russian lackey, himself - one of his greatest satirical performances.
Trump: “Every day, Border Patrol encounters roughly 2,000 illegal immigrants … trying to enter our country. …” Fact: The daily number of what he calls “illegals” is actually about 1,000.
Trump (regarding Foreign Aid): “… the Democrats… want $12 billion additional for foreign aid… It’s $54.4 billion… but in foreign aid, they want 12 billion over the $54 billion…” Fact: The total fiscal 2018 budget for the State Department ($12 billion), and foreign operations including foreign aid, $42 billion. Republicans control the Senate.
Trump: “(Afghanistan) built the library in Afghanistan… That’s like five hours of what we spend…” Fact: India is the “largest donor in the region” contributing over $3 billion in postwar reconstruction, a 135-mile road, a dam providing irrigation to farmers and training programs for more than 3,500 Afghans in India, and provided 1.1 million tons of wheat to Afghanistan as well as a 400-bed children’s hospital.
Trump: “…the horrible Iran Nuclear Deal, which by the way in eight years gives Iran the legal right to have nuclear weapons, okay?…” Fact: The deal includes the permanent restriction that “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”
Trump: “… reason Russia invaded Afghanistan (1979), was because terrorists were going into Russia, they were right to be there.” They were defending against terrorists from Afghanistan? Fact: This is a new, phony Russian bullet-point explanation of why they invaded Afghanistan that no one has heard prior to Trump’s unverified outburst. Afghanistan was about to change from its Communist status, and Brezhnev wanted to “keep” it Communist Control. Russian invaders killed the reformist Afghan leader, Hafizullah Amin.
Trump: “I said to (this) certain…very rich country, what would you do if the United States pulled out? ‘Oh, we’d be taken over by the Taliban and terrorists.’ I said then why are you charging us when we have to use your country to send product through? Why are you charging us when we send airplanes over your country? He said to me: ‘Well, nobody ever asked me not to.’ I said, ‘I’m asking you not to.’ He said we will not charge you, and I am talking about millions and millions of dollars.” Fact: This exact same story has been told before about another topic. No one can respond to queries about this incident since there is no record of this ever happening. An agreement, of sorts, was made, without Trump’s interactions for which he takes credit. He also took credit for China opening up to American beef, which was actually agreed to under Barack Obama.
Trump: “I was here on Christmas evening, I was all by myself in the White House. Poor me.” Fact: Except for his wife and at least one or two children and families and dinners outside the building.
Trump: “People see that gasoline is way down and the reason it’s way down is because I called up some of the OPEC people. I say, ‘Don’t do it.’ Fact: Trump- has no power over OPEC’s oil price decisions. His calls, if made at all, did not affect oil’s drop.
Trump’s self-praising of his accomplishments over his term are strictly in his own imagination.
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