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Tue Aug 20, 2019, 01:03 PM Aug 2019

Trump fears cancellation of his reality show

By Eugene Robinson

The Washington Post

Uh-oh. President Trump is in such a state of panic about his dimming reelection prospects that he’s getting his lies mixed up and occasionally blurting out the truth.

“It’s tough for Apple to pay tariffs if it’s competing with a very good company [Samsung] that’s not,” the president told reporters Sunday; flatly contradicting the ridiculous and utterly false narrative he has spent months trying to sell. Trump apparently forgot his standard lie that China is somehow paying “billions of dollars” in tariffs, acknowledging instead that they are taxes paid by U.S. companies and, ultimately, the American consumer.

This reflects more than just the difficulty of juggling multiple lies. Evidence suggests that Trump is melting down. Again.

And for good reason.

Fears of global recession, greatly exacerbated by Trump’s erratic and self-destructive trade policies, have sent financial markets tumbling. A sharp downturn would close off one of the principal lines of attack the president was hoping to use against his Democratic opponent. He tried it out at a rally in New Hampshire last week: “You have no choice but to vote for me,” he told the crowd, because “your 401(k)’s down the tubes, everything’s gonna be down the tubes” if he loses. “So, whether you love me or hate me, you gotta vote for me.”

Fact check: No.

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Trump fears cancellation of his reality show (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 OP
It's be a shame if something happened to your 401k underpants Aug 2019 #1
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