The New York Times, The Washington Post and establishment media have conjured the image of President Trump spending his days tweeting, guzzling Diet Cokes and stumbling through the White House in his bathrobe. This burlesque portrayal is a deliberate attempt to demean his presidency.
In particular, the Times and the Post have used anonymous sources for the most scandalous, outrageous stories lampooning Mr. Trump. To be clear: this is not a blanket endorsement of everything Mr. Trump has uttered or tweeted, but the media has painted a one-sided picture.
Consumers of exclusively mainstream news have become so biased by this reporting, many refuse to believe the president has any redeeming qualities. Viewed through their prejudiced lens, Mr. Trump's achievements include dividing America, throttling minorities, suppressing females and immigrants.
However, facts have a stubborn way of interfering with this deceptive narrative. The president has spurred economic growth, created record numbers of jobs, boosted median income, slashed red-tape regulations, improved security at the border and raised America's foreign policy prestige.
For the skeptics, here is a list of accomplishments in just 20 months for the Trump Administration supported by facts and figures, most of which were gleaned from The Bureau of Labor Statistics, Internal Revenue Service, Council of Economic Advisers and Commerce Department:
The Economy
Four million new jobs have been created since the presidential election. More Americans are now employed than ever before in our history. Unemployment claims are at a 50 year low. African-American and Hispanic unemployment rates have reached historic troughs. Female unemployment has plunged to its lowest level since 1953. Median household income has risen to $61,372, a post-recession high water mark. American workers enjoyed the biggest leap in pay since 2009 as the average hourly earnings for private workers advanced 3.1 percent this quarter, compared to 2017. Nearly four million Americans dropped off the food stamps rolls. In the latest quarter ended in September, the American economy grew a robust 3.5 percent, exceeding analysts projections. Most economists credit the Trump tax cuts for the boom.
Business
Investment is flooding into the U.S. after Congress lowered tax rates for businesses. America's corporate tax rate was the highest in the developed world. More than $450 billion has pored into the country from overseas businesses owned by American companies. Manufacturing has bounced back after decades of decline, reaching its highest level in 14 years. More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs have been added since the election. Retail sales have surged 6.4 percent since July of 2017, reflecting rising consumer confidence and increased disposable income. Last year job satisfaction among American workers hit its peak since 2005. Real wage compensation paid by businesses has risen 1.4 percent over the past year after eight years of stagnation.
Health Care
This ranks as the most under reported area of improvement for Americans. Mr. Trump enacted changes to the Medicare program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs this year. The Federal Drug Administration, under prodding from the president, set a record for generic drug approvals, saving consumers an estimated $9 billion. The administration enabled small businesses to join together to offer affordable health insurance to their employees by removing restrictions to form Association Health Plans. Legislation signed by the president repealed the infamous "death panels" created by Obamacare. The Department of Agriculture funded more than $1 billion in initiatives to improve access to health care in rural areas for 2.5 million people.
Border Security
Stopping drugs, human trafficking and violent gang members from flowing into the country has been a priority of the administration. Statistics document the success: Arrests of 796 members of the Central American gang MS-13 in 2017, an 83 percent increase from 2016. ICE rescued or identified more than 500 human trafficking victims in 2017 and more than 900 child exploitation victims. ICE agents seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in 2017, including 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of heroin. In a related area, the administration secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic, arrested 28 medical professionals and revoked 147 registrations for physicians over prescribing opioids.
Foreign Policy
President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and imposed tough sanctions on the rogue regime. In the wake of sanctions, Iran's currency has plummeted, international companies have pulled out of the country and the Treasury Department has levied sanctions against key regime individuals. The president opened negotiations with North Korea in an effort to denuclearize the totalitarian nation. Despite the media influenced image of Russian coddling, the administration has expelled dozens of Russian intelligence officers, sanctioned oligarchs and their companies and enhanced support for Ukraine's Armed Forces to defend against Russian aggression. In addition, Mr. Trump demanded European countries increase financial support for NATO, the military alliance between Europe and North America. The result was a hike in 2017 of 4.8 percent in defense spending by member states, amounting to $42 billion. Of course, the piece de resistance was the renegotiation of the flawed NAFTA agreement.
Mr. Trump is constantly savaged because he doesn't stick to the script of past presidents. The media and Democrats are aghast at his nonconformity. Many elitists believe a president should be measured on style not substance. Being "presidential" matters more than getting things done for Americans.
The U.S. had eight years of presidential style. The country was hungry for change. The media has never gotten over the fact American voters chose an outsider over its favored career politician. Irregardless, the media has an ethical obligation to report good news along with the bad.
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Monday, June 11, 2018
MS-13: Exporting Violence To America
Their motto is "kill, rape, control." Their bodies are branded with animated tattoos from head to toe. These ruthless murderers terrorize their victims before brutally ending their lives. These desperadoes are members of the MS-13 gang, a growing menace that has spread its tentacles to 46 states.
The gang with origins in El Salvador is responsible for a a rising tide of violence that worries law enforcement officials. The FBI, which tabulates crime statistics by virtually every category, has no available data on the MS-13 crime wave. However, many incidents have received news coverage.
In Houston, two MS-13 members kidnapped three teenage girls, holding them hostage and repeatedly raping them. The killers murdered one girl and left her body on the roadside. Two female high school students were beaten and hacked by gang members brandishing a machete and a bat near New York.
In Virginia last year, MS-13 hoodlums lured a Maryland man to a park on the outskirts of the nation's capitol. The gang members stabbed the victim 100 times, decapitated him and sliced his heart from his dead body, according to police reports. Even police were shocked by the excessive brutality.
MS-13 violence is not just aimed at civilians, rival gang members and traitors who attempt to flee their flock. They brazenly threaten to kill police if they interfere with their activities, which include drug distribution, prostitution, robbery, kidnapping and home invasions, according to the FBI.
Who are these tatted goons terrorizing our country?
MS-13 traces its roots to the mean streets of Central America. Many are El Salvadoran nationals, but others include immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. The name MS-13 is a derivative of La Mara Street in San Salvador. Mara Salvatrucha translates to street gang or street smarts.
El Salvadorans with gang ties began sneaking into the U.S. in the 1990's. Many had honed their criminal skills fighting as guerrilla soldiers in the civil wars in Central America. They are well trained in weapons and warfare tactics. These are no ordinary street ruffians.
Many wound up in Los Angeles, which became their operations base for exporting their brand of mayhem. Gang leaders recruited from the immigrant community, reaching into middle and high schools for new members. The gang preys on unaccompanied minors who illegally entered the U.S.
In 1994, the FBI formed a task force to deal with the looming threat posed by the notoriously violent gang. Despite a concerted law offensive, the gang has metastasized like a cancer. Nationally, estimates peg the MS-13 membership at between 10,000 and 20,000.
But those are just guesstimates. The gang's rolls include about 5,000 to 6,000 members just in communities around Washington, D.C. Once the gang was a primarily West Coast operation, but it now stretches from the heartland to the East Coast. And they are claiming new territory every day.
Their influence extends beyond the U.S. into Central America and Mexico. In Mexico, officials there have called MS-13 a threat to national security. MS-13 smuggles weapons and drugs across the Mexican border. The gang also exploits the porous border to engage in human trafficking.
Alarmed by the gang's criminal assault on American soil, the Treasury Department in 2012 designated the outfit a "transnational criminal organization." It was the first street gang ever accorded this tag, elevating its threat on par with deadly international cartels such as the Mexican Zetas.
Last year Attorney General Jeff Session escalated the war on MS-13 putting the entire resources of the federal government to crush their criminal rampage. "They leave misery, devastation and death in their wake," Sessions said. "They must be and will be stopped."
Despite the obvious MS-13 threat, the liberal media, including The New York Times and Washington Post, recently tried to downplay the emergency. The Post pointed out last month that MS-13 accounts for less than one percent of the approximately 1.4 million gang members in America.
Current membership numbers are not the chief threat the gang poses. It is their intensifying violence, their recruiting success and rapid expansion that has made the gang a law enforcement priority. Nearly every big city now has a local task force solely dedicated to dismantling MS-13.
Undeterred by facts, the Post complained that designating MS-13 a priority will only "encourage the gang and others like it to flourish." Placing a giant target on this gang will inflame anti-immigrant sentiment, the newspaper bellyached. This is sheer lunacy that doesn't deserve a response.
Just as stupidly, Democrat Nancy Pelosi rushed to defend MS-13 gang members after President Trump labeled the thugs "animals" for their violent behavior. "They are all God's Children," Pelosi lectured to applause from the adoring media. Only Ms. Pelosi would champion MS-13 members.
Those who support open borders, like Ms. Pelosi, apparently believe the influx of MS-13 members is a small price to pay for granting sanctuary to whomever chooses to illegally enter the United States. This should frighten every American, including those who back increased legal immigration.
As Americans become more aware of the MS-13 risk, the backlash will be even more thunderous than the Post predicts. The FBI recently posted this warning about MS-13 on its website: "...this growing, mobile street gang could be operating in your community now or in the near future."
Politicians who ignore this sober assessment put Americans in danger by doubling down on their agenda to promote illegal immigration as a humanitarian cause. Their first priority should be protecting citizens. By soft peddling illegal immigrant crime, pols are undermining your security.
The gang with origins in El Salvador is responsible for a a rising tide of violence that worries law enforcement officials. The FBI, which tabulates crime statistics by virtually every category, has no available data on the MS-13 crime wave. However, many incidents have received news coverage.
In Houston, two MS-13 members kidnapped three teenage girls, holding them hostage and repeatedly raping them. The killers murdered one girl and left her body on the roadside. Two female high school students were beaten and hacked by gang members brandishing a machete and a bat near New York.
In Virginia last year, MS-13 hoodlums lured a Maryland man to a park on the outskirts of the nation's capitol. The gang members stabbed the victim 100 times, decapitated him and sliced his heart from his dead body, according to police reports. Even police were shocked by the excessive brutality.
MS-13 violence is not just aimed at civilians, rival gang members and traitors who attempt to flee their flock. They brazenly threaten to kill police if they interfere with their activities, which include drug distribution, prostitution, robbery, kidnapping and home invasions, according to the FBI.
Who are these tatted goons terrorizing our country?
MS-13 traces its roots to the mean streets of Central America. Many are El Salvadoran nationals, but others include immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. The name MS-13 is a derivative of La Mara Street in San Salvador. Mara Salvatrucha translates to street gang or street smarts.
El Salvadorans with gang ties began sneaking into the U.S. in the 1990's. Many had honed their criminal skills fighting as guerrilla soldiers in the civil wars in Central America. They are well trained in weapons and warfare tactics. These are no ordinary street ruffians.
Many wound up in Los Angeles, which became their operations base for exporting their brand of mayhem. Gang leaders recruited from the immigrant community, reaching into middle and high schools for new members. The gang preys on unaccompanied minors who illegally entered the U.S.
In 1994, the FBI formed a task force to deal with the looming threat posed by the notoriously violent gang. Despite a concerted law offensive, the gang has metastasized like a cancer. Nationally, estimates peg the MS-13 membership at between 10,000 and 20,000.
But those are just guesstimates. The gang's rolls include about 5,000 to 6,000 members just in communities around Washington, D.C. Once the gang was a primarily West Coast operation, but it now stretches from the heartland to the East Coast. And they are claiming new territory every day.
Their influence extends beyond the U.S. into Central America and Mexico. In Mexico, officials there have called MS-13 a threat to national security. MS-13 smuggles weapons and drugs across the Mexican border. The gang also exploits the porous border to engage in human trafficking.
Alarmed by the gang's criminal assault on American soil, the Treasury Department in 2012 designated the outfit a "transnational criminal organization." It was the first street gang ever accorded this tag, elevating its threat on par with deadly international cartels such as the Mexican Zetas.
Last year Attorney General Jeff Session escalated the war on MS-13 putting the entire resources of the federal government to crush their criminal rampage. "They leave misery, devastation and death in their wake," Sessions said. "They must be and will be stopped."
Despite the obvious MS-13 threat, the liberal media, including The New York Times and Washington Post, recently tried to downplay the emergency. The Post pointed out last month that MS-13 accounts for less than one percent of the approximately 1.4 million gang members in America.
Current membership numbers are not the chief threat the gang poses. It is their intensifying violence, their recruiting success and rapid expansion that has made the gang a law enforcement priority. Nearly every big city now has a local task force solely dedicated to dismantling MS-13.
Undeterred by facts, the Post complained that designating MS-13 a priority will only "encourage the gang and others like it to flourish." Placing a giant target on this gang will inflame anti-immigrant sentiment, the newspaper bellyached. This is sheer lunacy that doesn't deserve a response.
Just as stupidly, Democrat Nancy Pelosi rushed to defend MS-13 gang members after President Trump labeled the thugs "animals" for their violent behavior. "They are all God's Children," Pelosi lectured to applause from the adoring media. Only Ms. Pelosi would champion MS-13 members.
Those who support open borders, like Ms. Pelosi, apparently believe the influx of MS-13 members is a small price to pay for granting sanctuary to whomever chooses to illegally enter the United States. This should frighten every American, including those who back increased legal immigration.
As Americans become more aware of the MS-13 risk, the backlash will be even more thunderous than the Post predicts. The FBI recently posted this warning about MS-13 on its website: "...this growing, mobile street gang could be operating in your community now or in the near future."
Politicians who ignore this sober assessment put Americans in danger by doubling down on their agenda to promote illegal immigration as a humanitarian cause. Their first priority should be protecting citizens. By soft peddling illegal immigrant crime, pols are undermining your security.
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