Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6105623" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-farmer-billions-taxpayer-funds-b2734026.html[/URL]<h3>Trump brags he ‘rewarded’ farmers with $28bn in taxpayer aid after his first damaging tariffs. He’s set to do it again</h3>4/16/25&quot;Donald Trump boasted in a post on Truth Social Tuesday that he “rewarded” America’s farmers with a bailout of $28 billion in taxpayer aid after an earlier damaging round of tariffs he imposed during his first administration.He’s now poised to do it again for his “patriots,” who support him at the ballot box. An overwhelming majority in all but 11 of the 444 farming-dependent counties last year backed Trump, <a href="https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/trump-election-farming-counties-trade-war/" target="_blank">according to an analysis by Investigate Midwest</a>.&quot;----------------&quot;So here we are again, Trump wrote, vowing: “The USA will PROTECT OUR FARMERS!!!”White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Tuesday that administration officials are <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1912204082632106235" target="_blank">discussing “relief” for farmers</a> hurt by Trump’s trade war.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6105623, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-farmer-billions-taxpayer-funds-b2734026.html[/URL] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Trump brags he ‘rewarded’ farmers with $28bn in taxpayer aid after his first damaging tariffs. He’s set to do it again[/SIZE][/HEADING] 4/16/25 "Donald Trump boasted in a post on Truth Social Tuesday that he “rewarded” America’s farmers with a bailout of $28 billion in taxpayer aid after an earlier damaging round of tariffs he imposed during his first administration. He’s now poised to do it again for his “patriots,” who support him at the ballot box. An overwhelming majority in all but 11 of the 444 farming-dependent counties last year backed Trump, [URL='https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/trump-election-farming-counties-trade-war/']according to an analysis by Investigate Midwest[/URL]." ---------------- "So here we are again, Trump wrote, vowing: “The USA will PROTECT OUR FARMERS!!!” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Tuesday that administration officials are [URL='https://x.com/atrupar/status/1912204082632106235']discussing “relief” for farmers[/URL] hurt by Trump’s trade war." [/QUOTE]

Verification