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Trump has succeeded

- Mike Williams Hot Springs Village

Dear editor:

This letter is in response to a letter by Mr. Bill Wiedmann that appeared on Aug. 27. In it, in response to another letter, he proceeds to trash President Trump with numerous bits of misinforma­tion, half truths and outright falsehoods, too many to address in this limited word letter.

He even tried to say that “Obama’s eight-year administra­tion was successful and a stark contrast to our current one.” This gave me a chuckle. Of course, he didn’t give any examples of these socalled successes. However, I can sure list his failures. Slowest recovery from a recession in American history, $11 trillion in additional debt, a failed health care plan based on lies, GDP never getting over 3 percent, over regulation, significan­t increases of Americans on welfare and Food Stamps, Benghazi, Hillary email scandal, pulling out of Iraq against military advice which led to the creation of ISIS, creation of identity politics, IRS’s heavy-handedness against conservati­ve groups, I could go and on. I see no successes coming from President Obama’s eight years.

However, under President Trump, in just a short time there have been some significan­t successes. Significan­t growth in the economy, GDP over 4 percent and possibly approachin­g 5 percent next quarter, burdensome regulation­s cut, unemployme­nt at record lows, particular­ly for minorities, tax cuts for everybody (businesses and individual­s) despite liberal claims to the contrary, stronger military, reworking trade deals that have been detrimenta­l to the country, increasing sanctions on Russia, getting one constituti­onal justice appointed to the SC and working on a second, and more.

All this despite a bogus investigat­ion into so-called Russian collusion that has found nothing to date, Democrat (and some establishm­ent Republican) congressio­nal obstructio­n, liberal federal judges coming up with questionab­le rulings to upend some of his executive orders, and the liberal biased press that puts out 90 percent negative press on the man.

Finally, I will agree with Mr. Wiedmann’s final paragraph, in which he states “in a democracy (we are actually a democratic republic, but close enough) the people get to decide who will preside over and represent them. That is what makes America great.” He is right and back in 2016, the people elected Donald Trump despite his flaws to try and get our country moving again and proving he is the solution. He has succeeded and hopefully our country is smart enough to keep Republican­s in power, so the successes will continue.

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