Great article by Bongino.
1) The Pre-Corona Economy: Corona would have smashed the economy no matter who was in charge. Before that? It was doing fantastic. More than four million jobs were created. Manufacturing grew at the fastest rate in three decades. Unemployment claims hit a 49-year low. ...
2) Judges: Trump put two excellent judges on the Supreme Court and has over 200 judicial appointments.
3) Trump Signs the VA Accountability Act: A lot of Presidents talk about getting better health care for our veterans. Trump actually signed a bill that has made a positive difference for our Vets.
4) Decimated ISIS: Remember the “JV team” that Obama allowed to take over a big part of Iraq? The US has taken 98% of its territory and killed its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi under Trump’s leadership.
5) Pulling Out of the Iran Deal: Obama’s deal with Iran essentially gave them the green light to develop nuclear weapons. Trump pulled out of the deal and has been working with our European allies to impose sanctions that will stop Iran from developing nukes.
6) Trump was the First President to Meet Kim Jong-un in North Korea: Trump was not able to get Kim Jong-un to give up nuclear weapons in his first term, but no US President has ever done more or gone father to make it happen.
7) Recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel: Presidents have been talking about doing this since Clinton was in office. Trump did it.
8) Pulled Out of the Paris Climate Accord: By some estimates, the Paris Climate Accord would have cost us 2.7 million jobs and blocked the development of clean coal. Getting out of it was the smart play.
9) Deregulation: Trump has done more to cut regulations than any President since Ronald Reagan.
10) The Space Force: Trump created the 6th branch of the U.S. Armed Services, the Space Force. Creating a branch of the service dedicated to warfare in outer space should have been done decades ago and it’s good to see Trump finally getting it going. Like Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, it will pay big dividends over the long haul.
11) Replacing NAFTA: American workers have suffered because of bad trade deals for years. Trump has worked tirelessly to improve those deals and his biggest success on that front has been replacing NAFTA with a new trade deal that has terms more favorable to the United States.
Dan Bongino is an idiot.
1. Pre-Corona economy - thank you President Obama.
2. Judges aren't helping Trumpy Bear. They've ruled against him every single time.
3. The VA Accountability Act is an abject failure.
But one year after the bill became law, it has been a massive failure – as we predicted. Instead of making the VA more efficient, it's created even more damage to this massive agency that takes care of nine million veterans every year. The worst part is, despite the efforts of some lawmakers like Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-P)
to repeal the bill, the administration is trying to implement this law governmentwide
"Over a year ago we said that bill would lead to frontline workers being targeted and intimidated by management seeking to cover up their own malfeasance, and a year later we are being proven right. The Accountability Act has been used to silence whistleblowers, retaliate against workers, and fire veterans,” said AFGE Legislative Director Tom Kahn.
On June 23 last year, President Trump signed into law the Veterans Affairs Accountability Act, promising to help the VA get rid of unethical managers and help veterans get their health care faster. But one year after the bill became law, the law has been a massive failure – as we predicted.
www.afge.org
4. ISIS was all but gone when Trump was elected. Thank you President Obama.
5. Trump pulled out of the Iran deal and tried to start a war with Iran. Instead of having a 10 year window to bring Iran back into a less agressive stance, the country is now racing toward a nuclear weapon.
60 Canadians died in the mess Trump created with the Iranians. Trump came within inches of starting WWIII. It's a sad state of affairs when the government of Iran shows better judgement than the President of the United States.
6. What did that get him exactly? It elevated a minor despot to a position of equality with the President of the United States. Trump got a box of bones.
There are good and valid reasons why no American President would meet with Kim as an equal. Kim now has an entire nuclear arsenal with intercontinental ICBM's - neither of which they had under Obama. Have any of those bones been returned to American families or are they still doing DNA analysis?
7. Pandering to the religious right, and leading to riots and 74 deaths on the West Bank. Everything Trump does gets people killed.
8. Just as dumb as refusing the WHO tests and for the same reason. Trump wants American companies to own the patents for all the technology. Trump may be the world's biggest failure of a business man but he understands the value of intellectual property, and owning the rights to patents and technology. The Paris Accord agrees that nations will share the technology with no exclusive rights for anyone. Another bad decision.
American cities and states are going around the Trump Administration to continue to particpate in the Paris Accord.
9. Cutting regulation has lead to increased air and water pollution and more deaths from asthma, and other pollution related illnesses. Another Trump decision to kill Americans.
10. Just as dumb as Reagan's Star Wars initiative. You can't afford health care for all but you can afford a space force.
11. Canada thanks you for the renegotiation. We made out like bandits. I actually agree with Bongino on this one. Of course, all of the provisions around car manufacturing, not only benefit Canada as well, but were included in the TPP trade deal Trump pulled out of.
Let's check out the rest of the list:
12) Food Stamp Work Requirements: Trump tightened work requirements on food stamps. As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said, the SNAP program, “was never intended to be a way of life.”
Raise the minimum wage to $15 and hour and eliminate the need for food stamps for working Americans. Food stamps are the most wasteful and ridiculous program in the first world.
13) Denying Grant Money to Sanctuary Cities: Any city that is going to aid illegal aliens in breaking the law should be punished. Cutting off federal funds to those cities is long overdue.
Trump has
NOT done this. He has tried, and the cities went to court and won.
14) Reducing Refugees and Temporary Workers: In a time when so many Americans are out of work because of the Coronavirus and lockdowns, Trump has dramatically reduced the numbers of refugees and temporary workers to help more Americans get back to work.
Many industries are not able to function without the VISA workers, and the jobs aren't going to Americans. Yet another idea that sounds good to the idiot Trump voters but in reality is doing damage to the economy.
15) Ending Catch and Release: This was a HUGE improvement on the illegal immigration front. Instead of catching illegals, allowing them to go free, and then never show up for their court dates, Trump has been locking them up. This is how it always should have been.
89% of immigrants show up for their hearings, so Bongino is lying. What Trump is doing is paying for profit prison companies $700 per day per prisoner to keep 42,000 illegal immigrants locked up. $29 Million per day. $1.073 billion per year, to make sure that 11% of immigrants show up for their hearings. Talk about picking up the peanuts while being trampled by the elephants.
Recent data shows that asylum seekers continue to appear for immigration court proceedings at high rates. In fiscal year 2018, Department of Justice (DOJ) figures show that 89 percent of all asylum applicants attended their final court hearing to receive a decision on their application. When...
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16) Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” Program: Stopping mostly fake asylum seekers in Mexico instead of the US was a stroke of genius.
17) Building a Wall: Trump promised to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. That hasn’t been possible without the cooperation of Congress, but he has built 100 miles of wall and has secured funding for 445 miles of the 722 border wall miles needed on the southern border.
18) America has Become the World’s Largest Oil-Producer: Under Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States has become the largest oil-producing nation on earth. The benefit to our economy and national security is immeasurable.
Under President Obama's leadership the USA became the world's largest energy producer. The US surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil production in 2018, not because Trump increased production (he hasn't - it has declined under his leadership), but because the Saudi's
CUT PRODUCTION.
So Trump is claiming credit for it, of course.
For the first time since 1973, the United States is the world's largest producer of crude oil.
money.cnn.com
19) Cut Taxes: Trump’s tax cut for individuals and corporations is a big part of why the economy has been so strong.
No it isn't. The tax cuts WEAKENED the economy, increased the deficit, and the national debt, and are a big part of the reason why the economy crashed with the covid pandemic. Bongino was basically a mercenary working for the CIA. His grasp of business and economics is woefully lacking.
20) Got Rid of the Obamacare Individual Mandate: Trump was not able to get rid of Obamacare per se, but by getting rid of the penalty for people that don’t use approved plans, he ensured that Obamacare couldn’t survive long-term.
More people have lost their access to health care under Donald Trump than under any President in American history. In the middle of a pandemic. All thanks to Trump's attempts to force the ACA to fail.
BONGINO IS CHEERING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, BECAUSE HE'S JUST AS STUPID AS THE REST OF THE CULT.