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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@GregTSargent
Aug 19, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Trump's scam is failing him.

* Trump publicly says recession talk is a conspiracy

* But privately, Trump fears economy could hurt his reelection

* To top it all off, Trump laughably claims his tax cut is making ordinary US consumers "rich"

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
It's not sufficiently appreciated that *both* sides of Trump's economic agenda -- the nationalist trade policies *and* the plutocratic tax cut -- are failing and unpopular.

With an assist from @Neil_Irwin:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@Neil_Irwin I don't understand why we keep ascribing magical political powers to Trump, every time he rolls out some crazy new conspiracy theory.

The better explanation is that he senses he's on the verge of losing control and is panicking about it:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@Neil_Irwin I don't get why Dems aren't jumping on this new Trump quote.

Farmers are reeling from Trump's trade war. A recession threatens.

And his response is that everything is just fine, because his massive corporate tax cut is making ordinary consumers "rich":

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

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Apr 1
A note on JD Vance's repulsive response to the deportation of a Salvadoran in "error": The whole point of his stunt is to show that Trump feels free to remove people even when the law *doesn't* justify it.

I spoke to the man's lawyer. Hair raising stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/193442…
“If nobody can do anything to bring him back once he’s been deported, then the order preventing his deportation in the first place is meaningless,” the lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported in "error," tells me.

It's absurdly circular:

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The Trump administration's position is effectively a declaration that it has the power to remove people, outside the law, in "error," without having any subsequent responsibility to rectify that “error.”

Here's the pattern:

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Mar 24
Time to focus on Marco Rubio's role as a chief Trump enabler. Rubio is helping execute some of Trump's worst designs: Terminating program for Ukrainian kids, deporting people to foreign gulags, wrecking USAID, arrests with zero due process.

My new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/193064…
First up: Marco Rubio's State Department terminated the program tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

Rubio has the power to ensure that the underlying data and evidence is transferred to Europol. Why won't he allow this? He won't say.

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Next up: Rubio is key to the deportations of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, many without any evidence. Rubio negotiated the deal making this possible. He says this is a good deal for taxpayers and that these are "good jails."

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Mar 19
Horrifying: After the contract tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia was terminated, the underlying evidence of these potential war crimes seems to be missing, a bipartisan group of Reps just charged in letter to Rubio. Two GOPers signed. Details:
newrepublic.com/article/192924…
Two *GOPers,* Don Bacon and Brian Fitzpatrick, joined this letter, which says underlying info/evidence collected on abducted Ukrainian children has vanished.

They're calling on Rubio to say what happened to this data. State Dept still saying nothing.

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“The State Department is controlling this information,"
@RepAdamSmith told me. "They have to be the ones to tell us: Where is it?”

This is dicey for Rubio. He's trying to seem neutral in Russia-Ukraine talks. Will he come clean on what happened here?

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Mar 1
Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now in a Georgia warehouse.

Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.

New:
newrepublic.com/article/192193…
This is one of hundreds of terminated USAID contracts. The full list is appalling: There's tons of the "lifesaving humanitarian assistance" that Rubio promised to protect.

Former USAID official Atul Gawande tells me we'll see a "a massive loss of life."

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The cancellation of the lifesaving assistance for starving kids abroad is really a galling one. This stuff was grown by American farmers and manufactured by American workers. This spreading of American bounty and good will long had bipartisan support.

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Feb 25
Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me.

"Starving children are waiting," one says.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/191935…
The product is called Ready to Use Therapeutic Food. It's a paste made mostly of peanuts, milk, and sugar, designed for children to ingest if they're on the edge of starving to death.

It's made in two US factories, one in Georgia, the other in RI.

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Both companies have contracts w/USAID, and have enough raw materials piled up in their warehouses to make this paste for 360,000 children.

But latest USAID firings crippled payment system and removed people overseeing contracts. So they're now in limbo.

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Feb 22
Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico.

Yet GOP is about to slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts!

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/191841…
Trump's pollster found that in 18 swing House districts, 68% are unhappy about their financial situation. Majorities want ACA's expanded subsidies to continue and oppose corporate tax cuts.

Swing voters want the opposite of what Trump/Rs are set to do.

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Next week, House Republicans will vote on a blueprint that could lead to $880 billion in Medicaid cuts, big cuts to spending on food stamps, and more big tax cuts for rich/corporations.

Trump's own pollster finds broad opposition to these priorities.

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