Jim Hightower's Lowdown

Exposing our “populist” president as a naked plutocrat


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Have you noticed that Donald Trump constantly prefaces his outlandish lies with such phrases as: “To be honest with you,” “To tell the truth,” and “Believe me”?

Why? Because like a snake-oil salesman, he constantly needs to convince himself that he’s speaking the truth in order to perform his next lie convincingly. The show must go on… and on. In fact, he already ranks as the lyingest president in US history. And that includes Nixon!

Trump’s biggest whopper is that he’s an honest-to-God “populist,” standing up for America’s hard-hit middle class against Wall Street, corporate lobbyists, and moneyed elites. This prevarication has duped many working stiffs into thinking he’s their champion. The huckster doubled-down on this lie in his inaugural address last year, pompously declaring, “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”

That’s why a new, straight-talking pamphlet by the watchdog group, Public Citizen, is so important. It exposes the “people’s champion” as a rank fraud who has pushed from day one to further enrich and empower the corporate elites he had denounced as a candidate. Public Citizen’s report documents with concise, easy-to-grasp specifics on how Trump-the-faux-populist has systematically sold out the working families whose votes he cynically swiped, handing our government to a kakistocracy of corporate plutocrats.

It’s not merely that he’s an irredeemable liar, but that Trump himself is a lie. The Public Citizen expose is titled “Forgetting the Forgotten: 101 Ways Donald Trump Has Betrayed the Middle Class” and it drives the stake of truth through the heart of his populist pretensions. Don’t just read it – use it like a Thomas Paine pamphlet to spread the truth. To download a free copy, go to CorporatePresidency.org/forgotten.

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