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Trump, while campaigning against Hillary Clinton, promised that if elected, that she would go to Jail. After becoming POTUS, he stated that she had suffered enough, & he did nothing about her crimes.
Trump promised, while campaigning, that "he could end the Ukrainian War in one day". I actually thought, that he would immediately present the evidence, of POTUS Obama, & his allies, having overthrown the Ukrainian Government, and causing the events that brought about the Eastern Ukrainian Provinces breaking away from Ukraine, and finally appealing to become part of Russia again.
Once again,... Trump broke his "Campaign Promise".
Trump promised to "Bring Our Troops Home" , and yet, "Our Troops consistently are placed in Harm's Way"!
Ya'll will have to forgive me, but,... When a Political Leader, makes a "Promise", I expect that "Leader" to deliver on that "Promise". And when that "Leader" fails to deliver, I Believe that the "Leader" should at least have the courtesy to explain to the American people why that "Promise" didn't happen.
========================== Trump's Twitter promises to bring U.S. troops home make headlines. Has he kept them?
In the closing weeks of his 2020 re-election campaign, we must consider whether he has lived up to these promises, how he has attempted to do so and if this effort made us safer.
Oct. 25, 2020, 12:33 PM EDT
By Jeff McCausland
"Even prior to running for president, Donald Trump was a critic of the deployment of American troops abroad. During the 2016 campaign, he frequently promised to bring U.S. forces home and end what he believed to be the unnecessary burden of overseas commitments. In his 2019 State of the Union address, Trump noted that it was time to stop fighting endless wars. During a subsequent Cabinet meeting he announced, “I got elected on bringing our soldiers back home.”
"But as Americans vote this fall, Trump’s promise of a dramatic reduction in American troop presence abroad has not been achieved, nor has he dramatically shifted costs to U.S. allies. In fact, the Trump administration has increased U.S. defense spending in the last several years by nearly $140 billion, from $611 billion in 2016 to $750 billion in 2019, Foreign Affairs reported. When Trump settled into the Oval Office in January 2017, the United States had a little under 200,000 troops deployed overseas. Best estimates are that number has been reduced slightly, but this may largely reflect a difference in accounting. Since 2017, the Department of Defense has excluded troops deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria from its official reports, arguing that providing the number of troops in a combat theater violated operational security."
Opinion | Trump's hollow Twitter promises to U.S. troops haven't made us safer
In the closing weeks of his 2020 re-election campaign, we must consider whether he has lived up to these promises, how he has attempted to do so and if this effort made us safer.
www.nbcnews.com
