It's All A Con: Trump's Presidential Campaign is as big a scam as Trump University [View all]

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It's All A Con: Trump's Presidential Campaign is as big a scam as Trump University

by Conor Lynch at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/06/08/its_all_a_con_trumps_presidential_campaign_is_as_big_a_scam_as_trump_university/


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The policies that the Trump campaign has put forward are shockingly impractical and dangerous — from his proposal to deport 11 million people (which would cost hundreds of billions of dollars) to his tax plan, which would add an estimated $10 trillion to the debt over the next decade. Most economists agree that if Trump accomplished his most notable policies — mass deportations, getting into aggressive trade wars, slashing taxes for the wealthiest — he would quickly send the economy spiraling into another recession.

Meanwhile, the billionaire has made erroneous claim after erroneous claim, all to fire up uninformed Americans and stir up resentment (one can never be sure whether Trump is ignorant himself or he is simply lying because he knows he can get away with it). He has said that Muslims were cheering in New Jersey on 9/11; he has falsely claimed that President Obama wants to take in 250,000 Syrian refugees; he has insisted that unemployment may be as high as 42 percent; he has stated the GDP growth is at zero percent; he has declared that the Mexican government deliberately sends “the bad ones over”; he has said America is the highest taxed nation in the world; it goes on and on. The lies are endless, and of his statements checked by PolitiFact, only two percent have been ruled true, while sixty percent have been utterly false.

How can a presidential candidate lie so frequently without being held accountable by the public? How can a presidential candidate declare that he will be the “best jobs president of all time” when most impartial economists agree that his policies would in fact destroy the economy? Do his supporters even care about facts?

One of his most vocal advocates, Breitbart writer (and full-time troll) Milo Yiannopoulos, provided an insight on Twitter when he was asked what Trump policies he actually supports, and replied that Trumpists just want to “burn everything down.” In other words, the policies (or lack thereof) don’t matter, they just want to watch the establishment squirm. This may be accurate for his most dedicated (and privileged) supporters, but surely there are voters who believe that he will somehow bring back jobs, deport 11 million people, and so on — they don’t know how, and they don’t really care how, but they have faith (just like the students at Trump University).



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