Trump's former Pentagon chief won't vote for him in 2024 — he explains the three reasons why If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, he will go into the general election without the support of a prominent member of his cabinet during his term in the White House. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper explained his position while being questioned about the former president's threat to democracy by MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. "I want to talk about the future," Wallace said. "You said that Donald Trump is not democratic — or he was a danger to our democracy. What is the specific threat he represents to American democracy?" Esper laid out three minimum requirements he thinks should be prerequisites to hold public office. "We've got to elect people — whether, it's certainly the president of the United States, but members of Congress — who have to do a few things. You have to put country before self," he said. "Trump doesn't do that," Wallace noted. "No," Esper agreed. "Number two, you have to have integrity and a core set of principles that guide you." "I don't even think people close to him think he has that," Wallace interjected. "And you have to be able to reach across the aisle," he continued. "You have to be willing to work with people from the other party and you have to bring the country together." Wallace then asked about 2024. "If he's the nominee of the Republican Party in 2024, will you vote for him?" Wallace asked. "No," he replied.
And you also should be able to pass a test for dementia without bragging about it nor thinking the last five questions were hard.
As outlined by the conservative Manhattan Institute -- Trump may have been the most fiscally reckless President in American history. Lengthy, detailed article... Trump’s Fiscal Legacy: A Comprehensive Overview of Spending, Taxes, and Deficits https://www.manhattan-institute.org/trumps-fiscal-legacy Executive Summary President Donald Trump’s tax, spending, and deficit legacy is still being defined. Critics point out that Trump’s tax cuts and spending increases led to a $3 trillion budget deficit. They note that Trump’s presidency saw the debt surpass 100% of the economy, even though he came into office with a healthy economy, declining interest rates, and relative peace after 15 years of global military conflict. On the other hand, the president’s defenders respond that he inherited large budget deficits that were already projected to grow on autopilot due to escalating Social Security and Medicare costs. They argue that the 2017 tax cuts contributed heavily to the growing economy through 2019. Finally, they note that the president repeatedly proposed budgets with significant deficit reduction but was thwarted by a bipartisan congressional majority that aggressively supported expensive new initiatives, as well as by a global pandemic that virtually everyone agreed required a massive federal response. The end of Trump’s presidency allows for a final assessment of his tax, spending, and deficit record. As the methodology section explains, this analysis begins with the 10-year budget baseline that President Trump inherited in January 2017 and measures all subsequent tax and spending changes through the February 2021 baseline, which was released as the president left office. The analysis is based on more than a dozen Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline updates over these four years, supplemented with the line-item scores of all notable bills signed into law by President Trump.[1] Key Findings When President Trump entered the Oval Office, CBO projected the cumulative 2017–2027 budget deficits would be $10.0 trillion. When he left office four years later, CBO’s projected deficits for the same period were $13.9 trillion. The president signed or enacted $7.8 trillion in new initiatives, the costs of which were partially offset by $3.9 trillion saved from economic growth revenues and technical re-estimates of taxes and spending levels. Economic and technical factors produced a substantial $3.9 trillion in actual and projected savings over this period. Of this amount, $2.7 trillion comes from falling interest rate projections, which reduced the projected cost of net interest on the national debt. Another $1.3 trillion comes from higher tax revenues produced by faster economic growth projections. Technical re-estimates have reduced mandatory spending projections but also tax revenues. Most of these savings are projected to occur later in the 2017–2027 period and thus may not materialize if economic growth slows or interest rates rise. President Trump signed legislation and approved executive actions costing $7.8 trillion over the decade—compared to $5.0 trillion for President Obama and $6.9 trillion for President Bush, and he enacted these costs in just a single four-year presidential term, compared to his predecessors’ eight years in the Oval Office. The largest drivers were pandemicrelief legislation ($3.9 trillion), the 2017 tax cuts ($2.0 trillion), and legislation raising the discretionary spending caps ($1.6 trillion). President Trump’s four annual budget proposals were scored as reducing budget deficits by $2.4 trillion over the subsequent 10 years. Nearly all proposed savings came from repealing and replacing Obamacare, as well as vague promises to cut domestic discretionary spending nearly in half. Outside of the budget documents, President Trump did not aggressively push either initiative after 2017. Trump left the White House with the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history and a national debt exceeding 100% of the economy for the first time since World War II. The failure to address unsustainable Social Security and Medicare costs leaves a projected 30-year baseline deficit of $112 trillion. (Much more at above url)
Trump denounced by conservatives for saddling the GOP with 'trainwreck' candidates https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2657323742/
It's hard to tell which is the bigger idiot of these two... Trump Says Scandal-Ridden Madison Cawthorn Should Get ‘Second Chance’ The 26-year-old MAGA acolyte from North Carolina has pushed the false idea that the 2020 election was stolen, which is all that matters to the former president https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-support-madison-cawthorn-1353841/