Really American - Trump:
"I took care of our economy like I would take care of my own company.”
Trump went bankrupt six times, his university and foundation were closed
for fraud. He lost almost 3 million jobs as President, added $8
trillion to the debt.
Diane Ravitch - During an interview on a podcast, Trump let slip that he lost the 2020 election.
He claimed he lost the election “by a whisker.” In fact, he lost the
popular election by 7 million votes. Perhaps he was thinking of the
electoral vote, which he might have won if a few thousand votes in
battleground states like Georgia had gone his way.
David Doney
ProPublica - One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.
The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country. The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
ProPublica - One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.
The national debt has
risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s
nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans,
credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages,
combined, according to data
from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500
in new federal debt for every person in the country. The growth in the
annual
deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the
size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according
to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle,
co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Independent UK - Donald Trump has pushed millions of dollars of funds from campaign donations into his family businesses, a new report reveals. The former president and associated political groups have spent $28m in campaign funds at Trump-owned businesses throughout his three presidential bids, a report from CNN revealed.
Other
Republicans have similarly used campaign funds to make big purchases at
Mar-a-Lago, Trump hotels and other affiliated businesses, according to
CNN, which translates into profit for the former president.
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Washington Post, 2021 - When The Washington Post Fact Checker team first started cataloguing President Donald Trump’s false or misleading claims, we recorded 492 suspect claims in the first 100 days of his presidency. On Nov. 2 alone, the day before the 2020 vote, Trump made 503 false or misleading claims as he barnstormed across the country in a desperate effort to win reelection.This astonishing jump in falsehoods is the story of Trump’s tumultuous reign. By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.
Newsweek - Nearly half of former President Donald Trump's financial assets returned no income—or income measured at less than $201—new financial filings show. Inactive assets accounted for 67 of Trump's listings that returned no income or less than $201. Thirty-three of the listings returning no income were dissolved in 2023.ArtVoice - During his four years as President of the United States, Donald Trump was remarkably active and often successful in sabotaging the health and safety of the nation’s workers. Trump, as the AFL-CIO noted, targeted Medicare and Medicaid for $1 trillion in funding cuts, eroded the Affordable Care Act (thereby increasing the number of Americans lacking health insurance coverage by 7 million), and “made workplaces more dangerous by rolling back critical federal safety regulations.” Trump’s administration not only refused to publicly disclose fatality and injury data reported to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, but slashed the number of federal workplace safety inspectors and inspections to the lowest level in that agency’s 48-year history. According to one estimate, with these depleted numbers, it would take 165 years to inspect every worksite in the United States.
Furthermore, the administration repealed rules requiring employers to keep and report accurate injury records, proposed eliminating the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, and cut workplace safety research and training programs. The Trump administration also proposed revoking child labor protections, weakened the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s enforcement of mine safety, and reversed a ban on chlorpyrifos, a toxic pesticide that causes acute reactions among farmworkers and neurological damage to children.
Trump’s laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims
Axios - Of the 42 people who served in former President Trump's Cabinet, just over half — 24 — of them explicitly support his re-election bid, The Washington Post reports.
- Three former Cabinet members — John Bolton, Mark Esper and former Vice President Pence — have explicitly said they won't vote for Trump.
- 15 others have declined to state their positions.
