trade: This is not to criticize the farmers, whose livelihoods are tied to international trade, which Trump has threatened by starting a trade war with China, according to The Independent. It is to point out that days earlier, when Trump claimed credit in a tweet for helping out the farmers, he was seeking praise for an effort to duct-tape a problem that he very much created. On Thursday, the Trump administration released details of a new raft of handouts to US farmers caught in the middle of the President's trade standoff with China. Farmers are starting to do great again, after 15 years of a downward spiral. The 16 Billion Dollar China replacement money didn't exactly hurt! Donald J. Trump real Donald Trump July 23, 2019Set aside that the farmers' predicament has been singly created by his nationalist trade policy or that this is the second such relief effort he's had to greenlight an earlier program totaled 12 billion in payments to farmers . It is even harder to square his government props for farmers with the demonizing of socialism he has pursued as a campaign tactic, poking at a festering divide in the Democratic Party.A few days before he was seeking praise for bailing out the farmers, Trump was attacking four lawmakers, all minority women, when he pledged again on Twitter that the US would never be a socialist country. The 16 Billion Dollar China 'replacement' money didn't exactly hurt! Read Morevar id function make Embed Script d, id var js,fjs;js id;js.charset '' ;fjs fjs ;js.src id ;Farmers are starting to do great again, after 15 years of a downward spiral.
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