Not for nothing does Trump talk about the "great patriot farmers" –> Trump’s farmer bailout has given $21 billion to red counties and $2.1 billion to blue ones https://t.co/RKtXGuBJG9
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 20, 2020
Remember Obamaphones? It was part of a whole racist theory that poor black people liked Obama because he gave them free stuff from the government!
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 20, 2020
A stimulus deal might be stymied, but Trump is funneling record subsidies to his farmers.
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) October 12, 2020
Payments this year project to top $40 billion.
There was a late push to help North Carolina tobacco farmers & Sonny Perdue was hit with a Hatch Act violation.https://t.co/eHoihGH6WZ
Should read: Trump attempts to buy farmers votes as his poll numbers decline. https://t.co/KSZQssJjpL
— James (@jcmarbury) September 18, 2020
Trump then falsely claimed that the $28 billion in tariff money given to farmers was paid by China. That's money paid by Americans. (American importers make the actual tariff payments, and study after study has shown Americans are bearing the overwhelming portion of the cost.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
Trump just claimed farmers benefit "more than anybody else" from the stock market. He's dead wrong. https://t.co/rAbOqEvk07
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 11, 2020
Farmers’ hopes for respite from Trump-era struggles fade amid pandemic https://t.co/C27IwyJ4vQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 12, 2020
“Imagine three years ago, you lost 30% of your paycheck and then the next year, you lost another 30%,” says a South Dakota farmer about the losses farmers experienced as a result of U.S.-China trade war. The coronavirus pandemic is adding to those losses. https://t.co/eHBRaYXOi8 pic.twitter.com/8ZPh5hwMFp
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 3, 2020
Trump's farmer trade bailout is already more than 2x the size of the 2009 auto bailout https://t.co/VIzez83uy1
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 21, 2020
Trump announces he plans to redistribute wealth from the American businesses that actually pay tariffs to farmers who are hurt by his trade war, but whose votes are crucial to his reelection hopes https://t.co/pP4nugouGe
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 21, 2020
The Trump administration provided more taxpayer dollars to farmers financially damaged by the administration’s
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 21, 2020
trade policies than the federal government spends each year on CHIP, maintaining America's nuclear arsenal, or the entire State Departmenthttps://t.co/J49Ci84cqh pic.twitter.com/ezbQvL41qv
This year alone, Wisconsin will have lost about 800 dairy farms in a downturn that threatens the vitality of rural communities and the state's flagship industry. @journalsentinel https://t.co/eqp5DhJUJJ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 25, 2019
Sad! 