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Former head of Obama Auto Task Force. Wall Street financier. Contributing Writer to NY Times Op-Ed. Morning Joe Economic Analyst. 🌐
- Dow in the first 11 months: - Obama: 29.9% - Trump: 25.0% S&P in the first 11 months: - Obama: 36.9% - Trump: 18.4%Amazing what happens when you put a businessman instead of a liberal politician in the White House-> cnb.cx/2oF9hmK
- The other "REAL news" is that this was initiated by the Obama Administration in September.China just agreed that the U.S. will be allowed to sell beef, and other major products, into China once again. This is REAL news!
- Trump just claimed that immigrants have the "highest level of criminality". Actually, the opposite is true.
- Harris’s tax plans will increase after-tax incomes by a whopping 13.6% for low-income Americans while making the richest 1% pay their fair share — Trump does the opposite. @Morning_Joe
- Project 2025 shifts taxes from the wealthy to the middle class— a family of 4 earning $100K would suffer a $2,600 tax hike, while a family earning $5 million would get a $325,000 tax cut. cc: @Brendan_Duke
- Over the past 20 years, Republican counties have become increasingly reliant on the government assistance. Those voters seem not to be aware that their party is trying to cut the programs that they rely on. cc: @WSJ
- Just a reminder that Musk’s companies have received over $15 billion from the US government — he’s happy to go after USAID but not the agencies that have been feeding him.
- Trump did not have the best economy in history — GDP grew more under Biden than Trump.
- Violent crime has declined by 26% since Trump’s last year in office — quite the opposite of “through the roof”. @Morning_Joe
- The House GOP just voted to prevent the CDC from studying gun deaths and injuries. Hmm...I wonder why?
- Trump was a net oil importer, but the US became a net oil exporter under the Biden, for the first time in over 70 years. @Morning_Joe
- Trump’s violent crime rates were actually higher than Biden’s — 2024 is on track for a 26% decrease in crime relative to Trump’s last term.
