Drudge tries to spook Trump voters again
Another Friday and another hamfisted attempt by the Drudge Report to undermine support for President Donald John Trump. A week ago, Matt Drudge was sure that the trade war with Red China was going to do The Donald in because the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down. A week before that Drudge had us in a recession not caused by Red China.
Drudge has linked and bannered stories about wars with Iran, North Korea and Syria, which never materialized.
I get that he has to link breaking news, but his continual selection of anti-Trump tripe trotted out by the Fourth Estate borders on desperation, and it diminishes and discredits Drudge. He needs to show a little more discretion.
Which is a shame because America needs an alternative to the corporate internationalists who aid and abet Red China in its quest for world dominance.
Today's Doomsday by Drudge was a link to a Bloomberg News story/column/report/fairy tale, "Trump Could Be the Next George H.W. Bush."
What fresh DNC debate is this?
President Trump could indeed be a one-term president. Voters will decide that next year. But one thing he will never, ever be: George H.W. Bush. President Trump won the presidency without riding on Reagan's tail.
In fact, he won despite George H.W. Bush and his son Fredo. I mean, Jeb!
Nevertheless, Michael Bloomberg -- the Napoleon of news -- gave Professor Karl W. Smith space to make this inane argument. And Drudge made it news.
Smith began his piece with a lie.
He wrote, "Donald Trump is dangerously close to becoming the first Republican president since George H.W. Bush to raise taxes."
What a liar.
Bill Clinton raised taxes before his inauguration by making his income tax hike of 1993 retroactive to that January 1 -- 20 days before taking office.
And of course, President Trump has not raised taxes. He cut them. Substantially, including a 40% reduction in corporate taxes.
But Professor Smith meant President Trump raised tariffs, as if no one else has. All presidents do because tariffs and other economic sanctions advance foreign policy.
Eight days into the Clinton presidency, the New York Times reported, "In a victory for American steelmakers, the Commerce Department imposed steep, temporary tariffs today on steel imports from 19 countries, after determining that foreign companies were illegally selling steel in the United States for less than they did at home."
In making a phony argument that President Trump's economic policy will do him in, Professor Smith ignored the success of Trump's economic policies.
Unemployment is at its lowest in 50 years.
Worker wages are rising faster than inflation.
Consumer confidence is at its highest in 19 years.
Worse, the professor ignored why Clinton defeated Bush.
1. Bush broke a promise not to raise taxes.
2. Bush got us in a war, then turned victory into a diplomatic defeat.
3. Bush ran against a centrist Democrat and the most viable third-party candidate in 80 years.
The purpose of all this nonsense by Smith was to undermine support for the president. There are powerful forces that seek to destroy President Trump, his family, and his supporters. By making America great again, we threaten the elitists.
It saddens me to report that Drudge is slipping over to the other side.
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