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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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May 7
The dumbest thing about Trump's desire to manufacture dolls in the US is that many of the jobs would be bad ones: Connecting plastic body parts to torsos, attaching nylon hair, etc.

I talked to toy industry people who laid this all out. Striking stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/194938…
Everybody is talking about Trump's doll lunacy from the consumer side of the equation. But we should also talk about it from the labor side. Are doll manufacturing jobs something we want at massive scale? No, not really. Here's what this would look like:

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If tariffs are designed to create high-quality US jobs, weakening unions and gutting regulatory oversight will work against that goal, especially in something like the doll industry, with its high-volume, repetitive tasks involving synthetic materials.

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May 3
Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court.

New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting:
newrepublic.com/article/194815…
Abrego Garcia's lawyer:

“[Trump] has now said...he could easily bring Abrego Garcia back...but he’s been told not to...we’re going to...find out exactly which government officials gave him that instruction."

Trump's admissions open new lines of inquiry.

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Another attorney for the Abrego Garcia family says Trump's lawyers "appear to be obeying Stephen Miller and not the Supreme Court. Miller himself should be deposed under oath in federal court to determine his role in this ongoing affront to due process.”

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Apr 26
Trump is trying to bludgeon us into accepting the tactics and imagery of fascism: Forced disappearances, renditions to foreign gulags, the ritual humiliation of hated enemies within.

That's why it's so crucial that the middle is rejecting it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/194424…
Anyone watching Stephen Miller on TV for 5 seconds can see that he and Trump are trying to acclimate voters into accepting rampant lawlessness as a fundamental feature of American life. That's why it's so good to see independents/moderates rebelling:

newrepublic.com/article/194424…Image
I looked at a lot of polling and found that independents are tilting in particular against the lawless stuff from Trump that involves basic questions of fundamental fairness, due process, and the rule of law.

Check out all this data below:

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Apr 25
Remarkable WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.

56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there

Engage, Dems.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/194424…
What's crucial here is that Trump is bleeding independents on immigration *both* in terms of generalized disapproval *and* on the lawless specifics. Look at these numbers:

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Note that all these issues turning independents against Trump involve questions of fundamental fairness, due process, and the rule of law. The imagery of rampant lawlessness tends to be the sort of thing that alienates those voters.

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Apr 19
JD Vance's arguments on Abrego Garcia are imploding. His latest absurdity reveals that he knows the admin has the option of returning him and retrying him for removal in a lawful way. So why not do that? He won't say.

New piece responding to Vance here:
newrepublic.com/article/194169…
It's just so galling. The admin always has the option of bringing Abrego Garcia back and challenging his "witholding of removal" order. In his latest tweet, Vance unwittingly shows that *he knows* they have this option. Yet they simply refuse to take it.

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Crucial line from conservative judge's ruling on Abrego Garcia:

"If the govt is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order."

IOW, the admin has another option!

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Apr 16
.@jdvance’s call for a functional end to due process for migrants is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. Here’s a response, including answering his “question.” First, his 20 million: I challenge you to substantiate this, JD. 1/
Vance again claims as fact that Kilmar Abrego Garcia (KAG) is a member of MS-13. This is based on the Gang Field Interview Sheet (GFIS) filed by a Maryland cop, which ICE used in the 2019 effort to deport him. It's an extremely weak case. Here's why. 2/
The GFIS claims KAG wore clothing identifying him as a MS-13 member (very weak evidence) and that a “confidential source” identified him as part of the Westerns clique, which operates in NY, where he never lived (even weaker evidence). 3/
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