Trump Trades Arenas for Rose Garden in Attack on Biden
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The Transcript:
Donald Trump Rose Garden Press Conference Transcript July 14
My Annotations:
“So we’ve had a big day in the stock market.”
Obama’s stock market was better Pre-Covid
“Hong Kong will now be treated the same as Mainland China, no special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies. In addition to that, as you know, we’re placing massive tariffs and have placed very large tariffs on China.”
“Billions of dollars have been paid to the United States of which I’ve given quite a bit to the farmers and ranchers of our country because they were targeted.”
Will someone, anyone, please explain how tariffs work to Donald Trump? China does not pay us tariffs. WE pay tariffs when we purchase products with tariffs.
Explainer: Trump’s China tariffs – Paid by U.S. importers, not by China
“Importers often pass the costs of tariffs on to customers – manufacturers and consumers in the United States – by raising their prices. U.S. business executives and economists say U.S. consumers foot much of the tariff bill.”
Trump’s washing machine tariffs are costing Americans almost $100 more per appliance
“We stood up to China’s intellectual property theft at a level that nobody’s ever come close. We confronted untrustworthy Chinese technology and telecom providers. We convinced many countries, many countries, and I did this myself for the most part, not to use Huawei because we think it’s an unsafe security risk.”
US-China trade pact President Trump just signed fails to resolve 3 fundamental issues
U.S. posts rule allowing U.S. companies to work with Huawei on 5G and other standards
“We withdrew from the Chinese dominated, WHO and we fully rebuilt the United States military.”
Trump has officially begun to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization as pandemic spikes
“The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of $2.5 trillion.”
“And make no mistake, we hold China fully responsible for concealing the virus and unleashing it upon the world. Could have stopped it, they should have stopped.”
We have your tweets. When you praised China’s efforts.
Other countries have done a great job with the virus
“In contrast, Joe Biden’s entire career has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party and to the calamity of errors that they’ve made.”
The Rally Begins!
“They made so many errors and it’s been devastating for the American worker.”
Obama/Biden created more new jobs pre-Covid and more manufacturing jobs Pre-Covid. Primary Source:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
Obama’s final 38 months in office – 8,069,333 new jobs
Trump’s first 38 months in office? 6,556,214
Obama’s final 42 months in office – 8,070,099
Trump’s first 42 months in office? -7,640,000 (Minus)
Manufacturing Jobs?
Swing States?
“Joe Biden supported China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.”
2000
THE CHINA TRADE VOTE: A CLINTON TRIUMPH; HOUSE, IN 237-197 VOTE, APPROVES NORMAL TRADE RIGHTS FOR CHINA
What Happened When China Joined the WTO?
“As Vice President Biden was a leading advocate of the Paris Climate Accord, which was unbelievably expensive to our country.”
Trump on the Paris Agreement
“And it was going to cost us hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars for the privilege of being involved in the Paris Climate Accord.”
5 claims Trump used to justify pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement — and the reality
“America lost nearly 10,000 factories while Joe Biden was Vice President, think of that. 10,000 factories.”
January 2009 – 12,561,000 manufacturing jobs – Bush meltdown
February 2010 – 11,433,000 – End of Bush Meltdown
January, 2017 12,369,000
Trump Pre-Covid? 12,852,000 Now? 12,095
Losing Factory Jobs?
The Last Shift: What Really Happened To Those Carrier Jobs Trump Saved
‘He made promises that he didn’t keep’: Laid-off factory workers feel betrayed by Trump
“Eight years, the last eight years, not long ago as Vice President he said, “One in five miles of our highways are still in poor condition.” Well, we’re doing a good job on highways, but why didn’t he fix them three years ago? Why didn’t he fix them?”
How did Infrastructure Week Go?
“Tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair and on the verge of collapse. Well, that’s probably not a right number, but we have bridges that should have been fixed. Why didn’t he fix him?”
Senate blocks $60 billion infrastructure plan, another part of Obama jobs bill
The Huge Obama Transportation Bill You Heard Nothing About
The busiest most structurally deficient bridge in every US state
On your watch? April 1, 2019:
Thousands of US bridges are ‘structurally deficient’ as pace of repair slows to lowest point in five years, industry group says
“More than 47,000 of America’s 616,087 bridges are “structurally deficient,” according to an analysis of federal data by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.
The pace of repair has slowed to its lowest point in five years.”
Infrastructure Report Card
Bridges
“The U.S. has 614,387 bridges, almost four in 10 of which are 50 years or older. 56,007 — 9.1% — of the nation’s bridges were structurally deficient in 2016, and on average there were 188 million trips across structurally deficient bridges each day. While the number of bridges that are in such poor condition as to be considered structurally deficient is decreasing, the average age of America’s bridges keeps going up and many of the nation’s bridges are approaching the end of their design life. The most recent estimate puts the nation’s backlog of bridge rehabilitation needs at $123 billion.”
Remind me again how Infrastructure Week went?
“Now, the Democrat party is calling for defunding of our military, think of that.”
Not true, and YOU are the one taking money from the military for your wall.
Border wall could cut into $132 million for 2019 Fort Campbell construction projects
“The planned middle school at Fort Campbell ended up in the national spotlight last month when Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said he didn’t mind putting it on hold to build the border wall, but it was only one of several local projects — totaling $132 million — whose funding could be diverted under a national emergency.”
Trump Administration Diverts $3.8 Billion In Pentagon Funding To Border Wall
Trump planning to use billions more in military funds to build border wall, per report
Donald Trump’s use of military funds for border wall in California, New Mexico and Arizona is illegal, federal appeals court rules
“As Vice President Biden opposed tariffs, and he was standing up for China.”
So does the US Chamber of Commerce
Trade Works. Tariffs Don’t.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression
“We did a travel ban in January.
And then I did Europe. When I started seeing what was going on in Italy and Spain and France and other countries in Europe I did a ban on people coming in from Europe.”
The Travel Ban banned nothing. WE came HOME.
“So we’re at 135,000, which is terrible. One is too much, but we would have had millions of people dead from this curse that came at us, but we did what we had to do.”
This is not true and you did NOTHING for Two Months!
“And now we’ll put out the flames as it happens.”
Not flames, forest fires!
Caused by YOU!
“But if we had listened to Joe Biden, hundreds of thousands of additional lives would have been lost. And if you look at the job he did on swine flu, I looked at a poll. They have polls on everything nowadays and they got very bad marks on the job they did on the swine flu. H1N1, he calls it N1H1. H1N1 got very poor marks from Gallup on the job they did on swine flu. And they stopped very early on, testing. They totally stopped it. They just said stop. And frankly, if we didn’t test, you wouldn’t have all the headlines because we’re showing cases.”
Nothing in this quote is remotely true!
“And frankly, if we didn’t test, you wouldn’t have all the headlines because we’re showing cases.”
You keep repeating this lie. Sadly, others repeat it too. There is NO correlation between testing and cases. How do I know? Common sense. Intelligence. Numbers. Facts.
“But if we did… Think of this, if we didn’t do testing, instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing, we would have half the cases. If we did another… You cut that in half, we’d have yet again, half of that, but the headlines are always testing. Now the testing is a good thing, but at the same time, it’s fodder for the fake news to report cases. So we’re doing 40 million plus, going to be very close to 45 million people. And when I turned on the news, I see cases, cases, cases. They don’t talk about deaths being cut down to a level that actually tenfold they use. I got that from one of the very respected media outlets, tenfold, cut tenfold, yes, but they don’t talk about that.”
This is true cray-cray stuff!
Cases are cases. ERs and ICU beds are cases. Deaths cut tenfold? We are losing 3-4 air disasters a night!
“They talk about cases and the cases are created because of the fact that we do tremendous testing.”
No, we don’t.
Mulvaney calls U.S. coronavirus testing abilities ‘inexcusable,’ breaking from Trump
Utah nursing home patient dies waiting in COVID-19 drive- thru test line
‘Pushing the frontiers’: Long lines for COVID tests, stressed labs delay results as demand spikes
Try GOOGLE!
“We had very few ventilators.”
Trump repeats this lie a lot
“And that was because we mobilized to a level, using the Purchasing Act in some cases, we mobilized to a level that nobody thought possible. Nothing’s happened like that since World War II. Our task force has done a great job. Mike Pence works so hard, gets so little credit. Sad to see that actually, but he works so hard, gets so little credit. The governors would tell us, we’d be on the phone with 50 different governors, they’d all tell us what a great job, great job. And then they’ll go to the media and say, “Well, they didn’t do such a good job.” Well, we did a great job. We made a lot of governors look fantastic.”
You didn’t do this
Trump administration’s delayed use of 1950s law leads to critical supplies shortages
Grave Shortages of Protective Gear Flare Again as Covid Cases Surge
You repeat your same Travel Ban lie, so I will repeat my same reply how the Travel Ban banned nothing,
“By contrast, my administration acted very early to ban travel from China, from Europe, saving all of these lives, incredible.”
“But for years, 47 years, he never came out against China, never say anything bad. Just the opposite. His son walked out with $1.5 billion of money to invest where he’ll make hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions of dollars a year, walked out with $1.5 billion. I asked one of the biggest people on Wall Street, maybe the biggest, “Is that possible?” He said, “No,” he’s never seen it. They don’t do that. But Hunter, where’s Hunter, where is Hunter by the way? Hunter Biden walked out with $1.5 billion. In Ukraine he got $83,000 a month and I guess an upfront payment of $3 million. So he went from not having job to getting $83,000 a month with a lot of money paid up front to work for Burisma.”
China grants 18 trademarks in 2 months to Trump, daughter
“So we built the greatest economy in the history of our country, greatest in the history of the world.”
You keep saying this, but it isn’t true.
“Best unemployment numbers ever, best for African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, best for women, best for everybody, best for young people that didn’t have a high school diploma, didn’t have a college diploma. They had a diploma, they were really in good shape.”
Obama was better!
Primary Source:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Obama went from 7.8 to 4.7 (-3.1)
You before COVID 4.7 to 3.5 (-1.2)
You now 4.7 to 11.1 (+6.4)
“African American“
Primary Source:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000003&series_id=LNS14000006&series_id=LNS14032183&series_id=LNS14000009
Obama 12.7 to 7.5 (-5.2)
YOU pre-COVID 7.5 to 5.8 (-1.7)
Now 7.5 to 15.4 (+7.9)
“Asian American“
Obama 6.1 to 3.7 (-2.4)
You pre-COVID 3.7 to 2.5 (-1.2)
Now 3.7 to 13.8 (+10.1)
“Hispanic American“
Obama 10.1 to 5.8 (-4.3)
You pre-COVID 5.8 to 4.4 (-1.4)
Now 5.8 to 14.5 (+8.7)
“best for women“
Obama went from 7.0 to 4.7 (-2.3)
You pre-COVID 4.7 to 3.4 (-1.3)
Now 4.7 to 11.7 (+7.0)
“We built the greatest ever stock market, highest ever in history.”
Again, Obama’s stock market was better.
“So I’ve watched this and I’ve watched it with great interest. We’re building our economy again. I guess the stock market went up almost 500 points today or something thereabouts, you’ll check. But it was up a lot when I left. And our economy is coming back. We’re almost at a level where even though it’s long before the very important, maybe the most important ever, election of November 3rd.”
You keep talking about the stock market. People are DYING!
“Today Joe Biden gave a speech in which he said that the core of his economic agenda is a hard left crusade against American energy. He wants to kill American energy. He wants to reenter the unfair one sided Paris Climate Accord, which will destroy us at the expense of many other nations who benefit. It was actually drawn in my opinion, to take advantage of the United States, just like so many other deals that are done to take advantage of the fools running the United States. But this would do nothing for the environment, but would cripple American industry while greatly helping China. He wants to impose massive energy taxes and job crushing mandates to eliminate carbon from the United States economy. Let him define the word carbon because he won’t be able to. Obliterating American oil, clean coal, natural gas, and the natural energy resources that supply countless American jobs.”
“The European union was formed in order to take advantage of the United States. They formed and they take advantage of the United States.”
No, it wasn’t.
“Abolish immigration detention, no more detention. You come in here illegally, no more detention. Stop all deportations. So if we get a MS-13 gang member, which we’ve taken out of our country by the thousands, brought them back to Honduras, Guatemala, can’t do that anymore. El Salvador, can’t do that anymore. Stop all deportations. In other words, we’ll take all of these people, many of whom are in prison for rape, murder, lots of other things. End prosecution of illegal border crossers. Oh, okay. They come in illegally and we have to stop the whole process. Support the deadly sanctuary cities where many of these people are protected better than the American citizen is protected. Incentivize illegal alien child smuggling. Give it an incentive because if you look at what they’re saying, that’s exactly what they do. Incentivize illegal alien child smuggling. They’re incentivized by what this plan calls for.”
“Taxpayer-funded lawyers will be given to all illegal aliens. So we’re going to pay now for the lawyer’s lobby and we’re going to give all illegal aliens taxpayer-funded lawyers. How does that sound? Pretty good. In other words, come in here illegally, we’re going to give you free legal advice.”
What constitutional rights do undocumented immigrants have?
Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause
Immigration Courts are CIVIL, not Criminal – some dirty words (HBO)
“They want to take down the wall, which we fought hard for up to 259 miles right now of great powerful wall that’s really working because if you look at the numbers, in addition to the fact…”
Three (3) miles of fence (not wall) in three years where no barrier existed before.
“Catch and release is gone. So many different things have taken place. We used to catch them, take their name, and release them into our country. We don’t do that anymore.”
“We now release them back where they came from. Sometimes we’ll bring them back to their country.”
“Grant work permits for illegal aliens, so if you come in illegally, you get a work permit. People that live here don’t get work permits, many cases.”
Huh? US Citizens don’t need a work permit.
“Provide taxpayer subsidies and welfare for illegal aliens and new immigrants. So we want to provide taxpayer subsidies and welfare for people that come into our country illegally, illegal immigrants.”
Dog-whistling to his nativist base. They are not eligible for welfare.
Meme Misleads on Benefits of Illegal Immigration
“President Trump has banned welfare for illegal immigrants which will save $57.4 billion a year.”
“As we noted then, U.S. law already prohibits such immigrants from receiving most federal benefits. There are some exceptions, such as emergency medical care; short-term, non-cash emergency disaster relief; limited housing or community development assistance to those who were already receiving it in 1996; public health assistance for communicable diseases; and programs such as soup kitchens.”
Welfare Benefits for Non-citizens
“With some exceptions, non-citizens entering the United States after August 22, 1996, the date of enactment of the welfare reform legislation, are not eligible for most welfare benefits, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), SSI, Medicaid, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), until they have been in the U.S. for at least five years. Keeping this general principle in mind, a more thorough review of the 1996 provisions reveals both their complexity and breadth.”
“They want government healthcare for all illegal aliens. This is part of their plan. I’m not making this up. This is all down in their plan from last week.”
“And by the way, the wall was so timely because it stopped people coming in from heavily infected areas of Mexico.”
Mexico closes border in Arizona as coronavirus cases in both countries surge
Americans will remain barred from European travel as the EU gradually reopens its borders
“And by the way, by far the most, find out which country tested 45 million people. If China, if Russia, if India tested 45 million people, or if they did tests like we did, check out how many cases they’d have.”
Russia? 16th in Testing, 160,999 tests per million, 31.8 tests per case – 5,070 cases per million
India? 135th in Testing, 8,760 tests per million, 12.9 tests per case – 679 cases per million
USA? 23rd in Testing, 132,193 tests per million, 12.4 tests per case – 10,699 cases per million
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
“Sign new immigrants up for welfare immediately. This is Joe Biden.”
Rambling much? Going from topic to topic? I repeat, new immigrants are not eligible for welfare.
Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs
“Federal Public Benefits Generally Denied to “Not Qualified” Immigrants”
“So they walk off and they come in and they put a foot into our land, and we sign up new immigrants up for welfare. We sign them up immediately. They get welfare benefits.”
This is NOT True!
Fact Sheet: Immigrants and Public Benefits
“Are undocumented immigrants eligible for federal public benefit programs?
Generally no. Undocumented immigrants, including DACA holders, are ineligible to receive most federal public benefits, including means-tested benefits such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, sometimes referred to as food stamps), regular Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and are prohibited from purchasing unsubsidized health coverage on ACA exchanges.”
“Who’s not coming to the United States? Every person from South America is going to pour in. Every person from other countries, they’re going to be pouring in.”
Forget dog-whistling, this is Foghorn level nativist bigotry to energize the base!
“End all travel bans including from Jihadist regions. So now we have travel bans. A lot of you said I didn’t get the travel ban and you were wrong. We got the travel ban. We lost in the Ninth Circuit. We lost again in the Ninth Circuit. And then we won in the Supreme Court. We have a very strong travel ban, and we don’t want people that are going to come in and blow up our cities, do things.”
“And we’re not talking about DACA because I’m going to take care of DACA much better than the Democrats did.”
Supreme Court Rules For DREAMers, Against Trump
“But we’re going to take care of DACA because I’m going to be doing, in the not too distant future, pretty soon I’m going to be signing a new immigration action, very, very big merit based immigration action. That based on the DACA decision, I’ll be able to do.”
“Vastly expand low-skilled immigration to the United States. So they want a lot of people come in with low skills. I like merit. Think of that. Vastly expand low-skilled immigration to the United States.”
The 14 Most Common Arguments against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong
1. “Immigrants will take American jobs, lower our wages, and especially hurt the poor.”
This is the most common argument and also the one with the greatest amount of evidence rebutting it.
“This is Biden. Biden’s gone radical left.”
Biden’s speech must really have you scared?
“Increase refugee admissions by 700%. Huh? That’s a lot, by 700%. Nobody’s ever heard of such a thing. Increase refugee admissions by 700%.”
A couple of videos:
Some dirty words (HBO) but an AWESOME ending!
Refugees?
The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? Evangelicals.
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Key facts about refugees to the U.S.
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“Abolish law enforcement as we know it. I think the police do an incredible job in this country. And you’re going to have a rogue, terrible cop on occasion, like you do doing any industry, in any business, in any profession. But I think they do an incredible job. Abolish law enforcement as we know it.”
Joe Biden did not call for defunding the police
Trump ad falsely suggests Biden supports defunding police
“End cash bail, no bail.”
85 people held for 4 years in Louisiana jails without a trial, sheriffs say
Dirty words (HBO)
“Shootings are up at numbers that nobody’s ever seen before.”
If we only had sensible gun laws?
“Abolish completely the death penalty. And I know there’s a lot of debate on the death penalty and that has been for a long time, but sometimes you use the death penalty depending on the crime.”
Sadly the GOP and Evangelists profess to love babies BEFORE they are born, but once they ARE born they could care less about their healthcare, nutrition, housing, safety or freedom.
“End mandatory minimums.”
Dirty words (HBO)
“Incentivize prison closure. So they want to close our prisons. They want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess.”
None of this is true.
“End solitary confinement.”
Some dirty words (HBO)
“Free federal housing for former inmates. So federal housing now can go to inmates, former inmates. Rejoined Paris climate accord, and seek an even higher level of restrictions. Oh, I didn’t notice that. Oh, I see. So they want to rejoin the Paris climate accord and they want to seek an even higher level of [inaudible 00:42:09]. In other words, make it worse than it was. Mandate net zero carbon emissions for homes, offices, and all new buildings by 2030, that basically means no windows, no nothing. It’s very hard to do. I tell people when they want to go into some of these buildings, “How are your eyes? Because they won’t be good in five years.””
Jumping from topic to topic.
“End school choice. There is nothing that the African American community wants more than school choice, and mothers and fathers are going to be very happy to see him be defeated just on that alone. End school choice. So Joe Biden wants to end school choice.”
Schools choose the students. Kids can’t pick their parents.
“Abolish all charter schools. Charter schools are doing great. Ban funding for charter schools in poor neighborhoods. We don’t want charter schools in poor neighborhoods.”
Some dirty words (HBO)
“Well, that’s not fair. Abolish educational standards. Abolish, in the suburbs, you’re going to abolish the suburbs with this, and force Obama/Biden’s radical AFFH, that’s the AFFH regulation that threatens to strip localities of federal affordable housing funds or less unless they changed their zoning laws to fit the federal government’s demands. So what you have, I mean, I’ve been watching this for years in Westchester, coming from New York. They want a low income housing built in a neighborhood. Well, I’m ending that rule. I’m taking it out. So I had spoke with Ben Carson the other day. We’re going to be taking it out. I’ve watched that whole thing go, and now they want to make it twice as bad in the suburbs, ib the suburbs. Mothers aren’t happy about that. Fathers aren’t happy about that. They worked hard to buy a house and now they’re going to watch the housing values drop like a rock. And that has happened. Drop like a rock. So we’re not going to do that. We’re going to do the exact opposite.”
“There Goes The Neighborhood”!
Bad enough @TuckerCarlson goes with “There goes the neighborhood!”
Watch: Tucker Carlson rails against America’s demographic changes
but now this?
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“But with the monuments, where they wanted to rip down Andrew Jackson. They wanted to rip down George Washington. They were actually heading over to the Jefferson Memorial, if you can believe that.”
“It’s radical left and it’ll destroy our country. 20 years ago, Venezuela was a very rich country, one of the richest. One of the richest anywhere, per capita one of the richest. Tremendous oil reserves. Now they don’t have water, they don’t have food, they don’t have medicine. We do everything we can to take care of the people, but they have nothing.”
How Venezuela Fell From the Richest Country in South America into Crisis
“I went to Maine a number of times, where we just freed up lobster fishing and fishing.”
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“So we freed it up for Maine, but if you take a look, we went up there recently. There were crowds; thousands of people lined up going over to a factory where we were opening up for… We’re making swabs. A beautiful big, new factory making swabs.”
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“As you know, they announced two weeks ago record job numbers, almost five million people. And that beat the last month, which was also a record, 2.8 million people. Nobody’s ever done what we’ve done, and now we’re doing it twice.”
You seem to forget April and May?
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
-1,373,000 in March, -20,787,000 in April. May’s 2,699,000 and June’s 4,800,000 comes to 7,499,000 – so you are still down 14,651,000 down from February.
“I’m very worried about mail-in voting because I think it’s subject to tremendous fraud and being rigged. Do you see that Paterson, New Jersey, where I believe it was 20% of the vote was fraudulent? It was all sorts of things happened. I understand a mailman was recently indicted someplace for playing games with the mail-in ballots.”
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“You’ll have tremendous fraud if you do these mail-in ballots. Now, absentee ballots are okay, because absentee ballots, you have to get applications. You have to go through a process. If I’m here, and I vote in Florida, you get an absentee ballot. But you have to go through a process. Absentee ballots are great, but mail-in voting, where a governor mails millions of ballots to people all over the state.”
What a press conference!
Same Day
