Of course he did

He does this to all of his opponents and his base believes him no matter what. They're useful idiots as Stalin once said. lol
Yeah as the OP said it's not exactly new news. We (the responsible among us) have been screaming warnings from the rooftops about this dishonest troll-clown for three years and obedient Rumpbots are still in the fetal position going
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There is no way to hammer into the skulls of conservatives the record of corruption of Republican administrations.
The source of political knowledge of conservatives under the age of fifty are the Republican rewrites of history, and the mythology GOP leaders have created over decades. For this reason alone this vast number of conservatives will swear Reagan was the savior of the U.S. and that Nixon was railroaded out of office and innocent of any wrongdoing, as were the White House Plumbers and Watergate Seven. They have no first hand knowledge.
That conservatives live in an "alternate reality" is nothing new, alternative facts, as they are called presently, have been the history of the Republicans for the past century, ever since conservatism hijacked the Party of Lincoln.
The politicians offered us by the Democrats are not much better than the crooks put forth by the Republicans. But every now and then, the Democrats throw average Americans a bone, and do something that helps the nation as a whole.
The Republicans have brainwashed their gullible base, convincing them the one percent are the
ONLY Americans deserving prosperity. That low wages, poor and dangerous working conditions must be accepted by all employees, and socialism works
ONLY when government programs benefit the super-rich and Big Business, exclusively.
One need simply read the frequency with which conservatives cite how prosperity is reserved
ONLY for the very rich who rely on workers, but
NOT for the workers themselves. At the same time, conservatives will boast of the success of "trickle down". Another weird and contradictory aspect of the alternate reality where conservatives dwell.
Conservatives' contempt for American workers is understandable, but should only relate to the low intelligence level and limited skills of conservative workers themselves. The conservatives' disdain for education and educated individuals is an admission conservatives alone should not expect a livable wage or respect from their employers. It must not be permitted encompass all American working people.
Workers with high skill levels, superior expertise, and/or post graduate degrees necessary for highly technical employment, must
NOT be held back due the collective inferiority complex of conservative workers, caused by their own history of substandard productivity.
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