Posted on 03/29/2016 4:08:42 PM PDT by KansasGirl
Donald Trump attacked Wisconsin governor Scott Walker for failing to raise taxes in order to properly fund schools and roads on Tuesday, in a startling new break from rightwing orthodoxy from the Republican frontrunner.
The comments came after Walker endorsed Trump’s rival, Texas senator, Ted Cruz, in the GOP race.
Walker became a conservative hero for his efforts to crush public sector unions and cut government spending in the Democratic-leaning state in Wisconsin, something that led to an attempted recall of the Wisconsin governor in 2012 and became a national cause célèbre. But, in a radio interview with talkshow host Michael Koolidge on Tuesday, Trump bashed walker's administration.
“There’s a $2.2bn deficit and the schools were going begging and everything was going begging because he didn’t want to raise taxes ’cause he was going to run for president,” said Trump. “So instead of raising taxes, he cut back on schools, he cut back on highways, he cut back on a lot of things.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Mixing apples and oranges, Trump said that under Walker, Wisconsin “projected a $1 billion (budget) surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion.” There was in early 2014 a projection of a $1 billion surplus heading into the 2015-’17 budget period. Late in 2014, there was a projection of a $2.2 billion shortfall — the difference between expected revenues and the amount of money being requested by state agencies. But the shortfall was never a deficit — and some of the surplus was consciously spent by Republicans, as tax cuts. For a statement that contains only an element of truth and ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is Mostly False.
Just so you know for a fact, the Donald does not lie. He changed his mind and facts were wrong...
But he does have his lawyers looking into it.
T.Rump is like Clinton. You can tell he is lying or evading the truth whenever his jowls are moving.
Here’s the rest of the article, I gave the wrong link.
So, Trump is attacking Walker for refusing to raise taxes to give more money to unions. Why are conservatives supporting this liberal?
Trump claimed in an interview that he only made the claim about the $2B deficit because he read it in Time Magazine. What is funny is that the only Time ever printed anything about it was when they were quoting what Trump said in the debate. So apparently, Trump never knew anything about the $2B deficit statement until he read what Time printed about his own statements at a debate... Of course, Trump was making that false statement about Walker as far back as last summer, and it had been debunked a number of times, but Trump kept saying it.
For the record from Politifact”
Also for the record, Politifact is hardly the authority on facts.
Good thing Walker listens to Sheldon Adelson not Trump. Trump doesn’t love his country as much as Adelson.
Are you saying Trump has invented the first perpetual motion machine??? Wow, I didn’t know he knew physics...
Walker is a stooge of the GOPe.
I cannot believe all of the GOPe defending going on around here.
Well, at least he may have invented the perpetual deception machine....
For instance, Ive never seen any fact checker group say.
“Candidate X is for amnesty”.
They run through a bunch of scenarios and then say, no this is not amnesty.
The best one was when they said:
“Rubio is for amnesty.” Mostly False. And then in the blurb, “...under Rubio’s definition of amnesty, Marco is for amnesty....”
I caught 12 “sleeper trolls” today. How many did you spot ?
LOL
LMAO!!
It’s tRump tRuth. If he says it’s true, than it’s true. His supporters all nod their heads, like bobble heads, and repeat after him.
We are going to trade a three card monte dealer from Chicago for a NYC Realtor, sounds like an even trade.
It is a FACT that Wisconsin never had a budget deficit.
What do you think of the fact that Trump attacked Walker for not RAISING TAXES in order to INCREASE GOV’T SPENDING?
....Lol!
If Walker had endorsed Trump, he would still be singing Walker’s praises. But as soon as Walker endorses Cruz, Trump attacks him using LIBERAL talking points just like Trump was channeling Harry Reid when he attacked George Bush and Ted Cruz.I’m sure the FR Trumpets will waste little time in trashing Walker. Maybe you Trumpets can find some pictures of Walker’s wife to attack her appearance, maybe Walker’s kids are ugly, surely trump can get some millage out of that.
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