Jerome Hudson - 50 Things They Dont Want You to Know About Trump

Donald Trump loves to be front page news. If he loses reelection in November, the next four years will still be filled with arguments over whatever former President Trump tweets or says every day. Until he passes from this earth, the only thing people will want to talk about is whatever Donald Trump wants us to talk about. But that means we rarely discuss what hes actually done: the policies hes promoted, the facts about whats actually happened in the country on his watch.

50 Things They Dont Want You to Know About Trump is a collection of those facts. Snapshots of the past four years youre not likely to find anywhere else. And thats not by accident. The media narrative around Trumps first term is very different from what youre presented with on cable and network news, on NPR, or in your local paper. This book will help you cut through the fog of misinformation to see Donald Trumps record for what it really is.

Trumps White House run defied a century of political tradition. He toppled two political dynasties: Jeb Bush in the primary and Hillary Clinton in the general. Trumps candidacy was a threat to the corrupt political class of wealthy elites we pay to represent our interests. His election was a wholesale rejection of the callous culture that has corrupted Washington, D.C., and the globalist delusions that have enriched communist China at the expense of the free world.

The elite press didnt take Trump seriously. Nor did the pollsters, the pundits, his political rivals, the think tank honchos, Wall Street brass, Hollywood luminaries, or many of the leading academicsthe very people in power, presiding over a political and economic system that wasnt benefiting a large share of the country in 2016.

Donald Trump didnt create the problems these elites had long ignored. Given the choice between Trump and Hillary Clintona corrupt, calculating relic of the system that created the messvoters chose whom they saw to be a maverick. After surveying the china shop built by decades of bipartisan D.C. conventional wisdom, powerful business lobbyists, and globalist fantasies, Americans voted for the bull.

Among Trumps many enemies is a press corps consisting almost entirely of pious partisans devoted to ruinous reportage at the expense of honest journalism. The media charged with covering Donald Trumps presidency was publishing articles fantasizing about his impeachment nearly a year before he was sworn into office.

Of course, thats the kind of folly youd expect from journalists, reporters, editors, and TV news anchors who donated to Trumps opponent by a margin of 96 percent to 4. It was still an Olympian display of arrogance from an American press corps whose record is clogged with incidents of laziness, incompetence, and political bias, from failing to foresee the War on Terror to missing the gathering storm of the housing collapse and 2008 financial crisis. From the early days of the Trump 2016 campaign to the closing months of Trumps first term, the media spent more time indulging conspiracy theories, weaving political narratives, and simply inventing stories than it did on reporting the facts.

The Washington Post suggested that Donald Trump could start a nuclear war and no one would be able to stop him. The media ran wild reporting a poll, backed by a group of Never-Trump Republicans, that said nearly half the country believed Trump would use a nuclear warhead against ISIS or a foreign enemy. Liberal economist Paul Krugman was among the many who predicted Trumps election would throw the world into a permanent global recession. TheGuardian columnist Jonathan Freedland said a Trump presidency would mean the end of civilization.

Of course, none of these things happened. And every one of those wild predictions was made before Trump had even won the election or been sworn into office!

The medias scorched earth treatment of Trump cost the country. The time they devoted to tearing down the administration was time they didnt spend reporting what the Trump White House was actually getting done.

The press constantly castigated Trump as racist. But they didnt tell you that he has allocated more funding to historically black colleges and universities than any other president in history. Or that Trump secured a massive donation worth billions in AIDS medication. Or that he placed $291 million in his 2020 Health and Human Services budget focused on ending the HIV epidemic by 2030. These moves would have a disproportionate impact on black Americans, who represent some 13 percent of the countrys population but account for roughly 40 percent of new HIV infections. Did you know that black womenowned new businesses had the highest rate of growth of any group in the number of new firms between 2018 and 2019?

The media cranked out endless listicles declaring Trump a danger to the environment but downplayed the fact that the U.S. once again led the world in reducing carbon emissions in 2018 and 2019. Did you know that Trump authorized the largest wilderness preservation expansion in a decade?

Flint, Michigans lead-laced water was a bludgeon used by the American left to beat conservatives over the head for half a decade. The Obama-led federal government couldnt seem to solve the problem. The truth is that Trumps Environmental Protection Agency finally fixed Flints broken water infrastructure system.

There were thousands of news articles about Trumps January 2017 order temporarily barring most citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen from entering the United States. What the media didnt tell you was that Trumps order listed the exact same seven countries that were named in a law signed by Barack Obama in December 2015. The media dubbed Trumps order a Muslim ban but they didnt want you to know that this so-called Muslim ban did not apply to 87 percent of the worlds Muslim population.

The anti-Trump animus among many in the mainstream media had degenerated into full-blown anti-Trump psychosis by the halfway mark of his first term. This helped set the stage for the Democrats campaign to impeach President Trump. The genesis for impeachment, Representative Al Green (D-TX) revealed in December 2019, was when the president was running for office. The media went from breathlessly doubting Trumps chances of winning the presidential election to willing and eager participants in the Democrats crusade to overturn it.

In early 2016, the Clinton campaign took over from Republican billionaire Paul Singer the funding of Fusion GPSs efforts to find anti-Trump dirt ahead of the election. Fusion GPS, the Washington, D.C.based research firm, proceeded to hire ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who put together a dossier based on sketchy sourcesincluding Russian sourceswho claimed Trump and his campaign members colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. It also claimed that Trump had requested Russian prostitutes perform a golden showers show when he was in Moscow in 2013. Fusion GPS shopped the Democrat-funded, thinly sourced dossier around to journalists, members of Congress, and various government agencies.

By late July 2016, the dossier made its way to the FBI, which launched an investigation into the Trump campaign and key staffers. Beginning in fall 2016, the FBI used the dossier to obtain four consecutive secret surveillance warrants on former campaign aide Carter Page. After the election, top officials in the Obama administration decided to brief Trump on the dossier. That briefing leaked to CNN, prompting BuzzFeed, which had photographs of the dossier, to publish it in full. This sparked a congressional investigation into whether Trump had colluded with Russia.

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff (D-CA) then used the dossier as evidence that Trump had colluded with the Russians, even reading from it during a congressional hearing.