Michigan Policast

Shelter-in-place extended, polls look good for Dems, and literacy is a right! Jon Hoadley and Jonathan Oosting join us.


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Michigan Policast for Monday, April 27, 2020
  In this episode:





* Surprise! Trump has inappropriate relations with China
* Gov Whitmer extends shelter-in-place but eases restrictions
* Polling on the handling of the pandemic
* Oversight and political hackery
* Jonathan Oosting on the court ruling on the petitions for candidates
* Literacy is a right! The students in the “right to read” case have legal standing
* Jon Hoadley on COVID-19, voting by mail, Mitch McConnell’s bad attitude, and GOP economics
* Campaign cash and more polls
* Transcript




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* @DetroitChamber
* @HaleyLive
* @jonathanoosting





 

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* Segment one: Surprise! Trump has inappropriate relations with China
* Segment two: Gov Whitmer extends shelter-in-place but eases restrictions
* Segment three: Polling on the handling of the pandemic
* Segment four: Oversight and political hackery
* Segment five: Jonathan Oosting on the court ruling on the petitions for candidates
* Segment six: Literacy is a right! The students in the “right to read” case have legal standing
* Segment seven: Jon Hoadley on COVID-19, voting by mail, Mitch McConnell’s bad attitude, and GOP economics
* Segment eight: Campaign cash and more polls
* Transcript
* Comments

Surprise! Trump has inappropriate relations with China

* Trump owed tens of millions to Bank of China
* Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties
* How Trump fused his business empire to the presidency

Trump’s recent criticisms of China have been muddied by his own mixed messaging as well as by his numerous financial ties to the country. Those connections extend far beyond the Avenue of the Americas loan: Chinese state-owned companies are constructing two luxury Trump developments in United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. The president and his daughter Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser, have been awarded trademarks by China’s government. And his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has courted Chinese investors in at least one other real estate deal. ~Source
 

Whoa, whoa!!! This is why there is an emoluments clause. Presidents cannot have financial interests dependent on foreign govts. https://t.
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Michigan PolicastBy Walt Sorg, Christine Barry