Trump’s Top Defenders Used To Agree That It’s Wrong To Withhold Information From Congress

On Tuesday, the White House released a letter saying that it would not comply with the House’s impeachment inquiry. Withholding information from Congress is wrong and defying a subpoena is an impeachable offense, but you don’t have to take our word for it:

Jim Jordan said it’s wrong for a president of the United States to go on national television and say there’s no corruption in his administration, and that his friends shouldn’t be allowed to run the investigation.

Jim Jordan in 2014: “And the fact that the president of the United States, the highest official in the executive branch, goes on national television and says there’s no corruption, not even a smidgen, is wrong. The bad guy doesn’t get to have his friends run the investigation like we see here.” Continue reading “Trump’s Top Defenders Used To Agree That It’s Wrong To Withhold Information From Congress”

Farmers are slamming Trump’s $28 billion farm bailout — more than double Obama’s 2009 payment to automakers — as a ‘Band-Aid’

Farmers are slamming Donald Trump over his trade war with China, saying his administration’s bailouts to the agricultural industry are like a ‘Band-Aid’ when it comes to helping those affected by the tariffs.

As president, Trump has repeatedly slapped tariffs on Chinese goods entering the United States, sparking tit-for-tat tariff hikes from China on products including agricultural goods.

As a result, exports of goods such as soybeans and pork to China have dropped off dramatically, with the Financial Times reporting that in the first five months of 2019, the US exported 4.3 million tonnes of soybeans to China, down from 15.2 million in the same period last year.

View the complete September 23 article by Yusuf Khan on the Insider website here.