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Trump takes a centrist tack on economic policy, abandoning campaign pledges
Washington Compost ^ | April 12, 2017 | By Damian Paletta and Ana Swanson

Posted on 04/12/2017 5:57:06 PM PDT by PK1991

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To: Tobias Grimsley

Just so. He thinks he’ll do better if he waits and has more control over the situation.


61 posted on 04/12/2017 7:18:36 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: bigbob

And then getting their panties in a wad.


62 posted on 04/12/2017 7:25:50 PM PDT by odawg
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To: PK1991

Maybe President Trump was able to get General Secretary Xi Jinping to agree to stop manipulating their currency in their recent meeting. If so there would be no reason to call them out on it any more.


63 posted on 04/12/2017 7:26:14 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: wiseprince

hear, hear, for the relax the sphincters.


64 posted on 04/12/2017 7:28:49 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: PK1991

Welcome to FR.
Now. Stop staring into the palantir, Pippin.


65 posted on 04/12/2017 7:29:20 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: PK1991

well, it seems in terms of foreign intervention things are not going as expected. i too am disappointed about this and the stories about bannon. however, trump has been delivering on some of his promises (see below) so consider those before abandoning support for him.

restoration of the Mexico City policy, the ending of federal grants to the United Nations Population Fund, which promotes and abortion and sterilization, the successful nomination of Neal Gorsuch as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court despite fierce opposition from the Left, the rollback of environmental regulations that have nothing to do with the quality of air and water, the freeze on all federal hiring outside of the military, the abandonment of the Obama administration’s absurd drive to force the states to accept “transgender” bathroom use in public facilities, cancelling the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, approving the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines, the administrative rollback of Obamacare pending its repeal, the order to begin construction of the border wall, and the continuous negotiations that have persuaded numerous companies, both domestic and foreign, to invest in new plants in America.


66 posted on 04/12/2017 7:32:03 PM PDT by thinkliberty64
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To: PK1991
How unpredictable to see a new poster attacking our President with a Washington Post article ...


67 posted on 04/12/2017 7:32:31 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
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68 posted on 04/12/2017 7:56:35 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: tumblindice

I’ve certainly read alot of unfamiliar IDs recently posting antiTrump articles and comments.


69 posted on 04/12/2017 8:03:05 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: PK1991

Fake news. The objective is to divide Trump’s supporters and weaken his ability to achieve his agenda. These stories are meant to sow discord. It won’t work.


70 posted on 04/12/2017 8:05:32 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Fake news. The objective is to divide Trump’s supporters and weaken his ability to achieve his agenda. These stories are meant to sow discord. It won’t work.


While I mostly agree I do think there is some inevitable breakage with the Ron Paul-LaRouche types who imprinted their fantasies on to the blank canvas that Trump’s possible Presidency was during the campaign. Now that he is governing these folks are learning that America First does not mean America Alone and so they are scurrying back to their natural contrarian homes.


71 posted on 04/12/2017 9:14:05 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: PK1991

Many here are confusing tactics with policy objectives. Trump, not naming China a currency manipulator on day one, represents a change in tactics, not an abandonment of his intention to ultimately address
the problem.

It`s all about leverage. Trump has a number of policy objectives he`s trying to achieve with China. But they can`t all be done at once.


72 posted on 04/12/2017 9:41:36 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: PK1991

Trump’s dealing with Lil’ Lim this week. Can we give him until Monday to get back to there stuff?


73 posted on 04/12/2017 9:46:48 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: PK1991

I think some of the things that he’s ‘changing’ on are simple realities like not unnecessarily provoking the Chinese when we’re relying on them to deal with the very real threat of North Korea. Donald Trump has done some really good things (think his Cabinet and Gorsuch, etc) and I believe he will continue to do so.


74 posted on 04/12/2017 9:58:13 PM PDT by No Dems 2016
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To: PK1991

The given this belief, the left has nothing to complain about.


75 posted on 04/12/2017 9:58:19 PM PDT by NoLibZone (He's racist,homophobic,misogynist and has a concealed carry permit- God how I adore that man!)
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To: PK1991

Both the Post and the NYTimes have been getting disingenuous mileage out of quoting Bannon as referring to Trump’s top advisors as “Democrats and globalists”, as if he is engaging with hyperbole and they somehow aren’t.

But Kushner, Cohn, and Mnuchin have indeed been longtime Democrats, giving heavily to Democrat candidates. And Powell is close to Valerie Jarrett while her husband is president of a group within Teneo, the company founded by Clinton bagman Doug Band to take in their international bribes.

Trump has indeed built a hybrid Democrat/Republican administration. Taking Obamacare 2.0 to negotiate with the GOP in Congress is apparently only they start—they are now looking at various Democrat tax schemes to impose on the GOP Congress as well.


76 posted on 04/13/2017 1:30:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: PK1991; citizen
Looks like the concern trolls are working overtime - they ignore that he told China that he couldn't let the current situation stand but was willing to deal with lesser attacks on their economic policies if they help rein in the NORKS.

The sky i=is falling! The sky is falling!

77 posted on 04/13/2017 4:00:14 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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