Donald Trump's wll-documented history of failed ventures as a developer in New York despite all of his claims to the contrary was fodder for former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on MSNBC on Wednesday morning.
During her appearance on "Morning Joe," the blunt-talking former lawmaker lit into Trump, close adviser Elon Musk, and the Republican party over a budget deal that will gift the wealthy with a multi-trillion dollar tax cut at the expense of the poor.
According to McCaskill, it was poorer Americans who helped propel Trump back into the Oval Office a second time, and now he has turned his back on them as he seeks the favor of the upper class who have held him at arms distance since his days as a fast-talking developer with a string of failed business behind him.
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Speaking with the co-hosts, McCaskill explained, "Wall Street did not put Donald Trump in office, the billionaire class did not put him in office. Who put him in office were poor people and frankly, rural America."
Turning to the backlash GOP lawmakers are facing at town halls over Musk's DOGE dismantling government programs, she continued, "I did a lot of town halls I know something about angry. I did town halls, I went out of my way to go where people didn't like me. And I know about angry town halls, and they haven't seen even the beginning of it yet. They're all going to hide and quit doing them, I predict, like what happened during Obamacare when a lot of my colleagues hid."
"So what Donald Trump is really doing, he's taking from the poorest people in America in primarily in rural America. and he's making the middle class pay more for health insurance," she claimed. "That's what he is doing with this plan, all to please the folks that never really gave him much respect when he was a real estate developer going bankrupt in New York."
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