So how much have wages risen by for these people since the inauguration? These figures might show how much extra pay they take home each week or month. The economy was doing well until Covid but now? I'm talking about the blue collar workers, who thought Trump was going to make a big difference to their lives and turned to him in despair after having had their standard of living stagnate for many years. Was it all in vain or has he really helped them?
I have just watched Brett Baier's interview with John Bolton.Bolton's arrogance is beyond frightening.
Thank God the 'model of a modern stable genius' is above such arrogance.From the UK Daily Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... rreaction/
Some of it rings true. Trump probably did think Finland was part of Russia or “kind of a satellite” of Russia. He probably did ask Theresa May, “Oh, are you a nuclear power?” He probably did confuse Ashraf Ghani, the current Afghan president, with his predecessor Hamid Karzai. When Barack Obama was running for office in 2008, he said he’d visited “all 57 states”. Joe Biden is nothing but gaffes and dribbles.
Trump probably did do Recep Tayyip Erdogan a favour by ensuring that the DoJ dropped its inquiry into a Turkish bank accused of violating sanctions on Iran. And it’s already clear that Trump doesn’t care at all about China’s abuse of the Uighur Muslims. The Obama administration connived at breaking sanctions on Iran, and sent a planeload of cash to Tehran as a sweetener. Nor did the Obama-Biden administration let the Uighurs get in the way of keeping Xi Jinping happy while it “pivoted to Asia”. All of this makes Trump look like 'business as usual', moral bankruptcy and all.
Bolton’s book is a typical Washington memoir, the revenge of an ambitious man who never made it to top banana. But he’s not a serious threat to Trump. He’ll be on the cable shows and the bestseller lists for a few days, and then he’ll subside back into a think tank while his book heads to the dollar bin.
The DoJ’s attempt to stifle Bolton’s book isn’t just pettier than most of the scores that Bolton settles in its pages. It’s the stuff of a banana republic – of governments so unsure of their legitimacy that any threat, any dissent, must be treated as if the colonels have come out of their barracks, and are rolling their tanks towards the scorched earth that used to be Michelle Obama’s organic vegetable patch.
So far that is the gist of what I've read in Bolton's book. The question remains, has Trump 'drained the swamp', or is it business much as usual - snake oil sales from a 'politician'?
