AFL-CIO Slams Obama, Credits Trump

[DawnODay]

During a speech Tuesday morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called out former President Barack Obama for his buddy-buddy relationship with Wall Street and his questionable negotiations on trade....

“He surrounded himself with Wall Street people who didn’t understand working people,” Trumka said....

During a speech earlier this month, Trumka gave Trump credit for renegotiating trade deals like NAFTA to benefit American workers:

“Look, President Trump gets some credit for putting NAFTA back on the table. George W. Bush didn’t do that. Barack Obama didn’t do that. And let’s be candid: Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have done that. Donald Trump recognized early on…whether through political expediency or actual conviction…that our trade regime needed to be massively overhauled. And we’ve been meeting with his administration nonstop to let them know exactly where we stand.”​

M. Dibble, Major Union Breaks From Political Norm to Slam Obama, Credit Trump: Here’s Why That Matters for 2020, IJR (Apr. 24, 2019).

 

[Dumpington]

The labor market currently being experienced in the United States right now wasn’t supposed to be possible.

Not that long ago, the overwhelming consensus among economists was that you couldn't have a 3.6 percent unemployment rate without also seeing jobs-creation slowing down (where are new workers supposed to come from if they're already working?) along with experiencing an inflation surge (a worker shortage should mean employers bidding up wages, right?)

But low-unemployment & low inflation are exactly what's happening right now, with the April employment numbers putting an exclamation point on the trend. The jobless rate receded to its lowest level in five decades. Employers also added 263,000 now jobs; the job creation estimates of previous months were revised up; and average hourly earnings continued to climb at a steady rate — up 3.2 percent over the last year.

Because this is 2019 and everything immediately devolves into partisan warfare, this good news was immediately seized upon by President Trump's supporters (who rightfully credit the president’s policies), while the president's opponents continue to insist that it was President Obama who planned eight-years of economic stagnation (beginning in 2009) immediately followed by an economic BOOM the moment he left office (in 2017)!

After more than two years of the Trump presidency, warnings that trade wars and Trump's erratic management style would throw the economy off course have proved [I[WAY OFF[/I] so far, with tax cuts and deregulation likely to be the reasons for the strong growth rates in 2018 and the beginning of 2019.

Meanwhile, President Obama is now openly admitting for the first time that he viewed Trump's 2016 election victory as a "personal insult," and he is upset at Hillary Clinton for now opening up his administration to investigations of illegal spying on the Trump campaign, something that would NEVER happen with Hillary in the White House!

 

[PrincepsCyberius]

During a speech Tuesday morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called out former President Barack Obama for his buddy-buddy relationship with Wall Street and his questionable negotiations on trade....

“He surrounded himself with Wall Street people who didn’t understand working people,” Trumka said....

During a speech earlier this month, Trumka gave Trump credit for renegotiating trade deals like NAFTA to benefit American workers:

“Look, President Trump gets some credit for putting NAFTA back on the table. George W. Bush didn’t do that. Barack Obama didn’t do that. And let’s be candid: Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have done that. Donald Trump recognized early on…whether through political expediency or actual conviction…that our trade regime needed to be massively overhauled. And we’ve been meeting with his administration nonstop to let them know exactly where we stand.”​

M. Dibble, Major Union Breaks From Political Norm to Slam Obama, Credit Trump: Here’s Why That Matters for 2020, IJR (Apr. 24, 2019).

Because so few people want to belong to unions, especially private sector unions, anymore, they now lack the political clout that once came from being able to deliver a large amount of votes. What matters most now is union money. It will be interesting to see where it goes, or doesn't go, in 2020.

 

[Rightguide]

In the coming weeks and months we're going to find out just how much of a domestic enemy Obama was for 8 years. The IG Report, Huber's report into leaks of classified material and bribery of federal officers by the media, are coming.The FISC has already sent it's report to the Attorney General outlining it's investigation into FISA abuse by Obama era officers of the FBI, DOJ, the Intel community, and how they illegally spied on the Republican Party 4 years running. Barr has appointed DOJ investigators to look into all aspects of the genesis of the Trump investigation and has impaneled a grand jury. So get ready, it's the beginning of a "reckoning." It's the knowledge and fear of what is coming that is behind all of the attempts to impugn AG Barr's reputation and Democrat calls for his impeachment. They know he's about to enforce the law.

 

[DawnODay]

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reportedly had to correct himself over the weekend after telling donors Margaret Thatcher is concerned about the United States under President Trump.

Thatcher, the former prime minister of Britain, died in 2013 – nearly two years before Trump launched his first campaign for president.​

A. Pappas, Biden mistakenly claims Margaret Thatcher, who died in 2013, is worried about Trump, Fox News (May 7, 2019), citing J. Epstein, Biden Calls Trump a ‘Clown’ While Decrying President’s Nicknames, Bloomberg (May 4, 2019).

 

[Wrong Element]

During a speech Tuesday morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called out former President Barack Obama for his buddy-buddy relationship with Wall Street and his questionable negotiations on trade....

“He surrounded himself with Wall Street people who didn’t understand working people,” Trumka said....

During a speech earlier this month, Trumka gave Trump credit for renegotiating trade deals like NAFTA to benefit American workers:

“Look, President Trump gets some credit for putting NAFTA back on the table. George W. Bush didn’t do that. Barack Obama didn’t do that. And let’s be candid: Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have done that. Donald Trump recognized early on…whether through political expediency or actual conviction…that our trade regime needed to be massively overhauled. And we’ve been meeting with his administration nonstop to let them know exactly where we stand.”​

M. Dibble, Major Union Breaks From Political Norm to Slam Obama, Credit Trump: Here’s Why That Matters for 2020, IJR (Apr. 24, 2019).

Just to clarify, this is a conservative poster citing with approval a criticism of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton coming from their left.

Just in case you were wondering if these folks have any ideological consistency, or really ever have any idea what they're talking about.

 

[DawnODay]

Just to clarify, this is a conservative poster citing with approval a criticism of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton coming from their left.

Just in case you were wondering if these folks have any ideological consistency, or really ever have any idea what they're talking about.

I do not worry about the underlying politics of a source. I worry about the accuracy of the facts.

That's my "consistency."