Author: Buck Banks

Trump Has ‘No Deal,’ Not ‘New Deal’

Buck Banks

“Everyone says ‘When, when, when are you going to sign deals?’ We don’t have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now if we wanted to. We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.”

— President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, on trade deals his administration is supposedly negotiating.

Florida Immigration Sweep Rounds Up 1,100

Buck Banks

1,120

“A six-day immigration sweep in Florida last week resulted in the arrest of 1,120 people across the state, an operation that state and federal officials described as the largest of its kind to date and a ‘warm up’ for future immigration enforcement operations,” the Miami Herald reports. Said Gov. Ron DeSantis (R): “We believe this is just the beginning. The best is yet to come.”

Trump’s Birthday Parade to Cost Tens of Millions

Buck Banks

$? million

Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned. The planning documents, obtained by the AP, are dated April 29 and 30 and have not been publicly released. They represent the Army’s most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th anniversary festival on the National Mall and the newly added element — a large military parade that Trump has long wanted but is still being discussed.

Trump’s Pardons Cost U.S. $1 Billion

Buck Banks

$1 billion

“Liz Oyer, the Justice Department’s recently fired pardon attorney, made a staggering claim on social media this week: President Donald Trump’s pardons of people convicted of white-collar crimes have cost Americans $1 billion,” the Washington Post reports. “She arrived at the number by adding up all the money that people who were pardoned allegedly owed in restitution, based on how much they were convicted of stealing.”