| Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Stocks and the economy down? Watch the Trump bait-and-switch. When times get tough, Trump resorts to a maneuver that we call the Trump bait-and-switch. He insists that he has long warned about a problem — when he hadn't. Or he will claim that a problem is not his, even though he took credit when things were good before. The result is that, in the president's mind, he's always on course. During his first term, our favorite example of this tactic was his rhetoric on arrests of undocumented immigrants at the southern border. When the numbers went down, he would brag about how much apprehensions had been cut. But when the numbers increased, he would also sell it as an achievement — boasting how many people had been apprehended. The result was, no matter happened at the border, it was always pitched as perfect. If a drop in arrests previously was cause for celebration, now a surge in arrests is even better. At the 100-day mark of his second term, Trump faces plunging polls, sagging economic numbers and skittish securities markets — mainly because of his tariff policy. We took a look at two recent statements – that during the 2024 campaign, he warned there would be a "transition period" and that the recent stock market plunges were Joe Biden's fault. Neither claim is correct. To read the full report, please click this link. | 
No comments:
Post a Comment