Chamber of Koch-Owned Chuck Grassley Threatens Trump’s Trade Agenda in WSJ Op/Ed
Shane Trejo
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) took aim at President Donald Trump’s trade agenda today, essentially holding the President’s proposed trade deal hostage unless he removes tariffs.
In an op/ed published by the globalist Wall Street Journal, Grassley paid lip service to the economic progress caused by Trump’s trade policies before giving the President an ultimatum: end the tariffs or he will sink the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
“The administration can take the lead by promptly lifting tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico and working with allies to address the true source of overcapacity: China,” wrote Grassley, who serves as chairman of the Finance Committee.
Bloggers at The Last Refuge took Grassley to task in an in-depth Twitter thread showing exactly who this swampy Senator’s masters truly are.
Here are some their selected tweets laying out exactly what is happening right now with the Trump administration fighting the corporate power structure to help the U.S. economy:
2. @ChuckGrassley is doing the bidding of Tom Donohue, the corrupt U.S. Chamber of Commerce, K-Street, his BigAG benefactors, and selling out the U.S. middle-class while simultaneously cloaking himself in the flag. Despicable. @GrassleyPress pic.twitter.com/73bMDoJNRH
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
6. @ChuckGrassley wants to hide truth, by falsely asserting a position that is his multinational corporate owners alone. It is @GrassleyPress who says USMCA is dead, because it doesn’t meet *HIS* terms. *HIS* terms, not Mexico and/or Canada.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
7. That type of obfuscation is typical amid the top K-Street purchased political class.
Grassley is selling out American workers and the American middle-class on behalf of his K-Street donors (specifically Tom Donohue). But he needs to hide that aspect. pic.twitter.com/OQEbfSbvrE
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
12. President Trump has already given Grassley a big win for Iowa with the continuance of a ridiculous ethanol subsidy. Now Grassley wants more on behalf of his benefactors.; and he doesn’t care if that hurts the U.S. economy.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
13. This is what we are up against. Purchased politicians doing the bidding of multinational corporate interests and simultaneously trying to hide their motives. Lobbyist Expenditures 2018: pic.twitter.com/8LCQLRqkxM
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
16. President Trump is confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host (USA), that’s us. pic.twitter.com/PbTtWtdggo
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
18. Familiar faces, perhaps faces we previously thought were decent, are now revealing their alignment with larger multinational entities and corporate benefactors. These were our hidden abusers and now Trump is forcing them into the sunlight. pic.twitter.com/9RhjP8YYzX
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
19. Big AG is not supporting local farmers. Big AG does not support “free and fair markets.” Big AG supports the interests of multinational corporations and multinational financial interests. pic.twitter.com/Kf0HIVrAgk
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
20. We are already familiar how China, Mexico and ASEAN nations export our raw materials (ore, coking coal, rare earth minerals etc.). The raw materials are used to manufacture goods overseas, the cheap durable goods are then shipped back into the U.S. for purchase.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
21. It is within this decades-long process where we lost the manufacturing base, and the multinational economic planners (World Trade Organization) put us on a path to being a “service driven” economy.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
22. The road to a “service-driven economy” is paved with a great disparity between financial classes. The wealth gap is directly related to the inability of the middle-class to thrive. pic.twitter.com/an0TZMpncA
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
23. Elite financial interests, including those within Washington DC, gain wealth and power, the U.S. workforce is reduced to servitude, “service”, of their affluent needs.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
25. They don’t. They didn’t. pic.twitter.com/be8tJBy7k2
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
36. Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations.
Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO), IMF and World Bank control trillions of dollars in economic activity.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
42. The free market economic system has been usurped by entities who create what is best described as ‘controlled markets’. pic.twitter.com/rX4ibK3DvG
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
44. President @realDonaldTrump is a one man, economic, yellow vest of power; actually reversing decades of middle-class destruction. pic.twitter.com/tXFC4YHR1u
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 29, 2019
Trump has to fight the orthodoxy of both major political parties in order to get anything done. It’s amazing he has achieved so many accomplishments with the entrenched forces out to destroy him. Draining the swamp will never be easy, with snakes like Grassley lacking the courage to stand for ‘America First.’
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