While liberal media are rooting so hard for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris that they won’t ask her hard questions, their minds seem so fried by Republican former President Donald Trump that all they ask is about his outrageous politicking while real substance again gets ignored.
Here, though, are questions Trump should be asked again and again until he provides cogent answers, not absurdist digressions. They should start with the two issue areas most distinctively Trumpian, namely immigration and trade.
If you are so tough against illegal immigration, why were there
more illegal border crossings in your four years than in either of former President Barack Obama’s terms?
If you believe the trade deficit is terrible and you insist it should be lower, why did the
trade deficit go up under your watch?
If you are such a good negotiator, why did you shut down the government for 35 days to try to get more money for border enforcement (costing taxpayers $9 billion in back pay for federal employees, leaving 2 million private sector employees without paychecks for more than a month, and bollixing up the IRS for more than a year in its ability to handle taxpayer inquiries) but emerge with literally less money for border protection than what the
Democrats originally offered you ? If you negotiated to a
worse outcome than you began with, on your single biggest issue, why should anybody trust that you’ll do any better in a second term?
If your trade and other policies were designed to boost manufacturing jobs, why did the number of such jobs
barely move during your presidency, and why did
manufacturing output decline after your trade policies were implemented?
What did you accomplish by releasing 5,000 vicious Taliban prisoners and negotiating with the Taliban without telling the legitimate government of Afghanistan? And if you say you would have done a cleaner job pulling out of Afghanistan than President Joe Biden eventually did, why was
your earlier withdrawal from Syria so dangerously haphazard that the Russians gained a U.S. airfield and tons of military equipment while a Wall Street Journal news story called the bug-out “a cascade of chaos that upended U.S. policy in the Middle East, cast doubt on America’s reliability as an ally and allowed Washington’s adversaries to fill the void”? Why should we believe, based on that track record, that you would have done better in Afghanistan, considering that you were the one who set an even earlier deadline for leaving Afghanistan than Biden eventually adopted?
Several interrelated questions: The attorney general has two roles. First, the official implements a president’s broad policy agenda related to issues of courts and justice and, second, oversees a department that investigates and prosecutes individual cases. In the second role, should the attorney general be a neutral arbiter of justice, or should he be a partisan for (and protecter of) the president? Relatedly, you turned against your first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, because
you said he should have recused himself during the examination into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. He did so on the direct advice of the Justice Department’s ethics office. Should attorneys general ignore the ethics office in order to do the president’s bidding on individual cases? If Joe Biden’s attorney general ignored the advice of his ethics office, would you approve of that? How can the public be confident in impartial justice in individual cases if the attorney general serves the president’s interests first?
You repeatedly have proposed a 10% tariff on all imported goods. How can you possibly do that without significantly raising prices for America's consumers?
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There. That’s enough for now. But plenty more questions could and should elucidate Trump’s actual record and views on policies and practices.
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