Posted on 11/09/2019 11:11:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The following is an exclusive excerpt from Doug Wead’s new book, Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, available on November 26.
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As a candidate, Trump’s frequent refrain was “America First.” We should take care of our own problems, he said, before meddling in the business of other nations. But the words “America First” were also a reminder that other countries were competing for our attention and our resources. One reason Trump had entered politics was his long-felt frustration over the nation’s trade deficits and defense arrangements, which he believed had led to the economic bloodletting of the American middle class. Were Americans being taxed to take care of the rest of the world? Trump had also complained that massive regulations, especially onerous to homegrown American businesses, had chased companies and jobs out of the country.
The challenge for Trump was determining how to take this on. Those jobs were going somewhere. Those trade deficits were benefiting someone. Our massive military expenditures were protecting other nations, freeing them to spend their money on other things.
The tax dollars that had fled America under Bush and Obama, on a massive scale, were now funding other nations’ government programs. They were building highways and airports in the capitals of other nations. An American president who had promised to make his country great again would have to pry loose those American dollars from the clutches of nations that had become addicted to them and that would not give them up willingly. America was not alone in the world. If Donald Trump was really going to put America first, the rest of the world was going to howl.
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The tax dollars that had fled America under Bush and Obama
And Clinton (NAFTA) and Bush ! (Gulf War 1)
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
Those trade deficits were benefiting someone. Our massive military expenditures were protecting other nations, freeing them to spend their money on other things.
IIRC, Bush 1 set the table for NAFTA.
I call BS on this book!!
I mean the author actually has his NAME on the cover?
I mean c’mon how stupid do they think we are?
Yeah and where’s the part about the stammering and stuttering and ragin’ on and being 25th-amendment-crazy like all the other books say?
You’re right! What really pisses me off is they expect us to believe this crap!
Looking forward to reading!
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