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The president-elects tweets notwithstanding, the plan was likely to happen no matter who won the election
Emerging from a meeting Tuesday with Japans richest person, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, the president-elect tweeted that the company will invest $50 billion in the U.S. to create 50,000 jobs.
Masa said he would never do this had we (Trump) not won the election, he tweet-added.
The $50 billion might also include leverage.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-art-behind-trump-softbank-50-billion-deal-1481102030?mod=e2tw
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,642 posts)He frequently takes all three sides of an issue.
On the campaign trail he says Climate Change is a Chinese hoax. Then he says there's something real going on. Then he says we need coal, baby, coal and drill, baby, drill and burn, baby, burn. Then he meets with Al Gore.
Let's see what the statistics reveal as time goes on.
Let's see what regulations he eliminates.
Let's see what trouble he creates in geopolitics.
In the meantime, ignore his bluster, and call him out on the facts.
Remain calm, fact check, and resist regression back to the worst of American history.
NewJeffCT
(56,834 posts)once people see that, it won't matter how many additional sides he takes or if it's really the money SoftBank is going to use to buy out Sprint and their almost 50,000 employees, etc.
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,642 posts)Vinca
(50,861 posts)He loves to have his face in the news and to create a spectacle. I'm betting he lured the ManBaby in for the show.