WV and Trump policies
What has happened; what may happen
Tariffs
As you probably know by now, President Trump has put a 25% tariff on products from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on Chinese imports. Most economists that I have read assume that those countries will retaliate.
From the latest year that I could find statistics (2023), here are West Virginia’s exports to those . . .
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What has WV’s Trump Party, especially Senator Shelley Moore Capito, had to say about Trump’s pardons of a notorious drug dealer and insurrectionists?
President Donald Trump, as he promised to do, pardoned Ross Ulbright
On Tuesday, President Trump pardoned the man who set up, according to one FBI agent, “the Amazon of drug sites.” As CBS News reported:
President Trump announced Tuesday that he has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground . . .
That didn’t take long: its day 2 of the Trump Presidency and here is the Wheeling Intelligence jumping on board the Trump propaganda train
Today’s lead Wheeling Intelligencer editorial, "Trump Getting To Work for Us," begins:
A “golden age,” one in which the United States of America can aim even higher than the moon, was proclaimed Monday during President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration speech.
And while Elon Musk may have thrown his hands in the air . . .
It’s Inauguration Day
The grifting becomes official but who will notice?
Crypto
This has not gotten the coverage that it deserves:
President-elect Donald Trump launched a cryptocurrency called $TRUMP on Friday night, taking the crypto world by storm and making some investors big money overnight. https://t.co/rgoR92rY9c
— 7News DC (@7NewsDC) January 19, 2025
And from Will Stancil:
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What’s up with WV Congressman Riley Moore?
Ah, Congressman, he didn’t “unleash” coal the first time he was in office
WV Coal!!! Let’s GO !!! https://t.co/Pwy8chrJh9
— Riley Moore (@RileyMooreWV) January 14, 2025
So how much “unleashing” of coal did Mr. Trump do in his last term in office? From the New York Times’ Lisa Friedman last June:
Mr. Trump . . .
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Some thoughts on our new governor and the future of West Virginia
Hypocrisy and hate: It's a new year for the WV Trump Party
Patrick Morrisey four years ago*:
If you care about unity, you don’t spend the first 11 days of your Administration issuing one far-reaching executive order after another. His rhetoric doesn’t match his actions.
— Patrick Morrisey (@MorriseyWV) February 1, 2021
Morrisey was correct: why take 11 days when you can do it on the . . .
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Riley Moore update
Keeping tabs on our crypto* congressman
WV2 Congressman Riley Moore earlier today on the Trump sentencing:
Trump gets "Unconditional Discharge."
TRANSLATION: Democrats in DC and NY colluded to:
Harass the leading Republican candidate for President
Brand him a convicted felon
Give him no punishment for his "crimes"
This was pure election interference, and we must hold those… . . .