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NAFTA passed with the strong support of Republicans. Free trade has been a hallmark of GOP platforms for over 10 years. The 2016 platform still embraces free trade but pays homage to Trump by insisting that agreements put American first. Most complains over the years have come from Democrats. However there is one group that overwhelming support free trade, American economists.PURE FACTS" dude, what in that list was wrong. post one out of that list. I posted two that said he was right. So, how's about you post just one and let's discuss. i don't want to do them all, it's boring. talk one. which one. Let's see your facts, cause there are none in this OP.
Trump said..............“Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country.”
Bill Clinton was certainly a supporter of NAFTA who pushed approval through Congress. But it was negotiated and signed by President George H.W. Bush.
(Here’s a photo.) Moreover, more Republicans than Democrats voted for the deal, as the trade pact was vehemently opposed by labor unions. One key ally for Clinton was then-House Minority Whip (and later House speaker) Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), now a Trump supporter.
I seriously doubt he knows the difference between a consulate and embassy. Hope some one explains it to him before he has to start making appointments.PURE FACTS" dude, what in that list was wrong. post one out of that list. I posted two that said he was right. So, how's about you post just one and let's discuss. i don't want to do them all, it's boring. talk one. which one. Let's see your facts, cause there are none in this OP.
Trump said..........“In Libya, our consulate – the symbol of American prestige around the globe — was brought down in flames.”
Trump falsely calls the Benghazi facility a “consulate” and a “symbol of American prestige.” It was merely an unofficial and temporary facility that had not even been declared to the host government — which is a key reason it did not get the security that was needed.
I seriously doubt he knows the difference between a consulate and embassy. Hope some one explains it to him before he has to start making appointments.
Well, he does plan to re-brand America.I seriously doubt he knows the difference between a consulate and embassy. Hope some one explains it to him before he has to start making appointments.
Do you think that Trump would want to put a BIG "T" on every embassy facade? (but perhaps a smaller "T" in consulates.)..LOL
Somebody already posted this crap and were blown out of the water. Total biased opinion....nothing more.AP FACT CHECK: Trump resurfaces debunked claims in speech
TRUMP: "Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration's rollback of criminal enforcement. Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in America's 50 largest cities. That's the largest increase in 25 years."
THE FACTS: A rollback? President Barack Obama has actually achieved some big increases in spending for state and local law enforcement, including billions in grants provided through the 2009 stimulus. While FBI crime statistics for 2015 are not yet available, Trump's claim about rising homicides appears to come from a Washington Post analysis published in January. While Trump accurately quotes part of the analysis, he omits that the statistical jump was so large because homicides are still very low by historical standards. In the 50 cities cited by the Post, for example, half as many people were killed last year as in 1991
TRUMP: "The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015. They are being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the impact on public safety or resources."
THE FACTS: The pace of releasing immigrants is driven not by the Obama administration, but by a court ruling. A federal judge ruled last year that the government couldn't hold parents and children in jail for more than 20 days. An appeals court partially rolled that back earlier this month, saying that parents could be detained but children must be released.
By the standard used by the government to estimate illegal border crossings - the number of arrests — Trump is right that the number in this budget year has already exceeded last year's total. But it's down from 2014
TRUMP: "When a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence - I know that corruption has reached a level like never before."
THE FACTS: Clinton's use of a private server to store her emails was not illegal under federal law. Her actions were not established as a crime. The FBI investigated the matter and its role was to advise the Justice Department whether to bring charges against her based on what it found. FBI Director James Comey declined to refer the case for criminal prosecution to the Justice Department, instead accusing Clinton of extreme carelessness.
As for Trump's claim that Clinton faces no consequence, that may be true in a legal sense. But the matter has been a distraction to her campaign and fed into public perceptions that she can't be trusted. The election will test whether she has paid a price politically
TRUMP: "The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has risen by almost 50 percent compared to this point last year."
THE FACTS: Not according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which tracks police fatalities daily. The group found that the number of police officers who died as of July 20 is up just slightly this year, at 67, compared with 62 through the same period last year. That includes deaths in the line of duty from all causes, including traffic fatalities.
It is true that there has been a spike in police deaths from intentional shootings, 32 this year compared with 18 last year, largely attributable to the recent mass shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge. But that was not his claim.
And overall, police are statistically safer on America's streets now than at any time in recent decades.
For example, the 109 law enforcement fatalities in 2013 were the lowest since 1956. ___
TRUMP: "My opponent has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian (refugees). ... She proposes this despite the fact that there's no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from. I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people."
THE FACTS: Trump persists in making the bogus claim that the U.S. doesn't screen refugees. The administration both screens them and knows where they are from. The Department of Homeland Security leads the process, which involves rigorous background checks. Processing of a refugee can take 18 months to two years, and usually longer for those coming from Syria. Refugees are also subject to in-person interviews and fingerprint and other biometric screening.
For all that caution, U.S. officials acknowledge that the Islamic State group could try to place operatives among refugees. Last year, FBI Director James Comey said data about people coming from Syria may be limited, adding, "If we don't know much about somebody, there won't be anything in our database." ___
TRUMP: "Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago. Another 14 million people have left the workforce entirely. ... President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing."
THE FACTS: Trump is playing with numbers to make the economy look worse than it actually is. The sluggish recovery over the past seven years has been frustrating. But with unemployment at 4.9 percent, the situation isn't as bleak as he suggests.
Trump's figure of 14 million who've stopped working since Obama took office comes from the Labor Department's measure of people not in the workforce. It's misleading for three reasons: The U.S. population has increased in that time; the country has aged and people have retired; and younger people are staying in school longer for college and advanced degrees, so they're not in the labor force, either.
A better figure is labor force participation — the share of people with jobs or who are searching for work. That figure has declined from 65.7 percent when Obama took office to 62.7 percent now. Part of that decrease reflects retirements, but the decline is also a long-term trend.
On national debt, economists say a more meaningful measure than dollars is the share of the overall economy taken up by the debt. By that measure, the debt rose 36 percent under Obama (rather than doubling). That's roughly the same as what occurred under Republican President George W. Bush.
The Hispanic population has risen since Obama while the poverty rate has fallen. The Pew Research Center found that 23.5 percent of the country's 55.3 million Latinos live in poverty, compared with 24.7 percent in 2010.
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Man, oh man trump is a liar and a fraud. Along with his entire rich party!
Mod Edit: Please don't post entire articles.
I don't expect the media to check Hillary's speeches for lies, because they'll be doing it all month.
Not at all.I don't expect the media to check Hillary's speeches for lies, because they'll be doing it all month.
Well, I suppose we should be "grateful" that you're at least tacitly admitting that Trump spews a sack of lies and is also a sack of shit.
Yep.....Hillary was too stupid to know what she was doing with her emails, thus no intent was established. Too fucking stupid to know she was mishandling top secret information. She was just sloppy. At this point, what difference does it make.But then again, you fuckers don't give a shit if your president is a fucking liar.
Perhaps a "liar".....but a liar may be a lot better than a narcissistic, insecure insane moron....You've made the choice for the latter.
