For the last 19 months, Americans have been treated by those opposing the president and the media with a drumbeat of negative news and controversy.
The Russian voter fraud should have been wrapped up months ago. None of Hillary’s confidants have been interviewed by the special counsel – only small players from the early days of the campaign. Some have even pled guilty to unrelated charges – if only to get the feds off their backs and stop the high cost of defending themselves.
The only way any of this will end is when the president declassifies FBI and Department of Justice documents related to the dossier and FISA warrants. Congress has been seeking these documents for months and has been stalled by the agencies.
What we should be discussing is an economy that is on fire. This should be good news for the mid-term elections if Mr. Trump will just let the American people see how corrupt the Obama FBI and DOJ were. This could also include the State Department and Intelligence Agencies.
Here are the facts. The gross domestic product under President Obama barely cleared 2 percent. Today, it is routinely north of 3 percent, a number we were told could not be reached. This number in the second quarter was 4.2 percent. The unemployment rate is at a 50-year low for men, women and all minority groups. The stock market through the Dow 30 is up 50 percent.
August produced 201,000 new jobs and wages rose 2.9 percent year over year. This was always the complaint of those opposed to the president – that no one ever got a raise. Here they did with the savings generated by the corporate tax cut.
Business and consumer confidence are the highest in 18 years. CNBC said it best, “Each of these accomplishments can be tied either directly to new policies or at least indirectly through a brimming sense of hope from business that the White House is back on their side.”
You may recall that President Obama reported that many American jobs would simply disappear and never return. Well, in two years, President Trump added 3.9 million more Americans to the job rolls. In the same 2 years of President Obama’s administration, employment had fallen by 2.6 million. The economy in total as grown by $1.4 trillion under Trump and only $481 billion under Obama.
Business is investing and regulations that choked innovation have been removed. The White House pushed through a massive $1.5 trillion tax reform that lowers the corporate rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. This triggered new worker bonuses and the return of billions of offshore dollars.
Regulatory activity declined 74 percent over the same period of the Obama administration. The Dodd-Frank rollback has helped community banks as evidenced by their stock prices.
Despite all the good news, Democrats in Congress are hoping the economic news is only temporary. They hope for trade wars and inflation that will cause a recession in 2020.
With the midterm elections less than 60 days away, President Trump’s economy should be front and center. If the past is an indication all the good news should help even weak Republicans hold on to the House and the Senate.
Now is the time, Mr. President, to declassify the documents to show the corruption of the Obama State, Justice and FBI organizations.