@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
An excellent summary from Thom Hartmann of how we got here from Franklin Roosevelt to Reagan to trump and an optimistic look at what lies ahead.
"So now Donald Trump tells our young people that itβs time to make take the next big step β to reject democracy β as the logical outcome of the Reagan Revolution.
A new, progressive America is being birthed from the ashes of the Reagan Revolution and the GOP and its billionaire owners canβt stop it much longer."
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/reagan-and-trump/
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@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
"In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a βBermuda styleβ home in Palm Beach, FL, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just 7 weeks later, he got another mortgage for a neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.
In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, they were used as investment properties and rented out."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
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