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$850 BILLION? Trump will now try to buy the election...and with that kind of money......? (Original Post) spanone Mar 2020 OP
Too late. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
So what if he killed Grandma and Uncle Jack, TAX CUTS!!11! bigbrother05 Mar 2020 #2
+1 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #4
That Is All He Is Focused On..... global1 Mar 2020 #3
Agreed...👍🏼 spanone Mar 2020 #5
How much will be earmarked for his businesses? al_liberal Mar 2020 #6
You know it, and with $850 BILLION it's probably easy to lose track of a billion here & there spanone Mar 2020 #7
We'll be told Windy City Charlie Mar 2020 #9
Pittance.... Brainfodder Mar 2020 #8

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,584 posts)
1. Too late.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 01:31 PM
Mar 2020

If he hadn't done everything he could to prevent the government from acting, that money, deployed a month ago, would have done a whole lot more good than it can now.

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
2. So what if he killed Grandma and Uncle Jack, TAX CUTS!!11!
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 01:36 PM
Mar 2020

Fail, create a crisis, get Congress to fund a bailout? That's why they elected the GOP.

global1

(25,224 posts)
3. That Is All He Is Focused On.....
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 01:38 PM
Mar 2020

In my opinion - this change in his disposition is all an act. Re-election is guiding his decisions now. He must be watching the numbers and he's 'tremendously' worried to lose his base and lose the election. He'll do anything to win. If it takes $850 Billion - he's thinking - it's not his money.

From 'hoax' to 'always knew it was a pandemic'.

I picture him - after he comes off of the podium from one of these conferences - unbuttoning his suit coat - letting out a sigh of relief. Just like he did the other night after his WH Oval Office speech.

al_liberal

(420 posts)
6. How much will be earmarked for his businesses?
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 01:43 PM
Mar 2020

$50 billion for airlines, how much will be for hotels? Hospitality industry? He’ll make sure any bailout pays him first.

Windy City Charlie

(1,178 posts)
9. We'll be told
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 02:07 PM
Mar 2020

We'll be told to trust the big businesses will invest it in employees and such, much like the tax cuts were supposed to.

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