[FONT="][FONT="]I[/FONT]f you told me two years ago that, today, I would be planning to vote for Donald J Trump at the next presidential election, my reaction would have been: “Are you having a laugh?”
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[FONT="]I'm a life-long Reagan Republican and supported Marco Rubio, the articulate free-marketeer from Florida, in the primaries. But when the general election came around, I didn’t want to be blamed for World War III. Trump had not convinced me he would govern as a small-government conservative. It was just unimaginable that a man with his temperament – with all the vulgarity and immature name-calling – and lack of political experience could hold the highest office in the land. I thought Trump was a new low for American politics.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]I'm a life-long Reagan Republican and supported Marco Rubio, the articulate free-marketeer from Florida, in the primaries. But when the general election came around, I didn’t want to be blamed for World War III. Trump had not convinced me he would govern as a small-government conservative. It was just unimaginable that a man with his temperament – with all the vulgarity and immature name-calling – and lack of political experience could hold the highest office in the land. I thought Trump was a new low for American politics.[/FONT]
[FONT="]So what changed? Trump may still be the tough guy everyone loves to hate, but he is getting results. And on his visit to the UK, perhaps, just perhaps, the British people will realise the same.
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[FONT="]Why did I change my mind? Trump has been effective on the world stage. He appointed the very-capable former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, as US Ambassador to the UN. She has stripped away from this bloated institution $285 million in US taxpayer funding, and has taken the US out of the hypocritical UN Human Rights Council – full of the world’s worst offenders such as China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Venezuela.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Why did I change my mind? Trump has been effective on the world stage. He appointed the very-capable former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, as US Ambassador to the UN. She has stripped away from this bloated institution $285 million in US taxpayer funding, and has taken the US out of the hypocritical UN Human Rights Council – full of the world’s worst offenders such as China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Venezuela.[/FONT]
[FONT="]With Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis as Secretary of Defence, the Trump administration punished Assad for crossing chemical weapons red-lines in Syria. Obama, ever so popular in the UK, did no such thing. Obama did nothing, either, when ISIS spread like wildfire across Syria and Iraq in the summer of 2014. Obama only acted after thousands had been murdered, raped and sold into slavery. Today, ISIS has lost 98 per cent of its territory.
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[FONT="]Let’s not forget the surprise of North Korea. Trump is the first President to have met a North Korean leader, and despite all the criticism, procured an agreement for the communist state to denuclearise while keeping economic sanctions in place. We were expecting nuclear war, but productive conversations were had instead. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Let’s not forget the surprise of North Korea. Trump is the first President to have met a North Korean leader, and despite all the criticism, procured an agreement for the communist state to denuclearise while keeping economic sanctions in place. We were expecting nuclear war, but productive conversations were had instead. [/FONT]
[FONT="]A[/FONT][FONT="]nd then there is [/FONT]Nato[FONT="]. President Trump has not undermined this cornerstone of the West’s defence. Instead, he has reiterated his commitment to the alliance and pushed underspending members to meet the 2 per cent target. As the UK is one of the few other countries that does so, this should be welcomed by British taxpayers.
[/FONT][FONT="]D[/FONT][FONT="]omestically, Trump’s pro-business agenda has reignited the American economy. For the first time in over 30 years, Congress passed comprehensive tax reform that lowered the highest corporate tax rate in the Western world from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, stopped taxing foreign-earned corporate income, and ended the penalty for not buying health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).
[/FONT][FONT="]Take these massive changes and couple them with cutting 22 regulations for every new one imposed (compared with Obama who added a record 600 new regulations), and you have a newly liberated business environment that has pushed up economic growth, has seen the stock market climb to new heights, and has driven down unemployment, including among African Americans and Hispanics. America is competitive again. Isn’t this the type of economy an independent Great Britain wants to do business with?[/FONT][FONT="]
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[/FONT][FONT="]D[/FONT][FONT="]omestically, Trump’s pro-business agenda has reignited the American economy. For the first time in over 30 years, Congress passed comprehensive tax reform that lowered the highest corporate tax rate in the Western world from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, stopped taxing foreign-earned corporate income, and ended the penalty for not buying health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).
[/FONT][FONT="]Take these massive changes and couple them with cutting 22 regulations for every new one imposed (compared with Obama who added a record 600 new regulations), and you have a newly liberated business environment that has pushed up economic growth, has seen the stock market climb to new heights, and has driven down unemployment, including among African Americans and Hispanics. America is competitive again. Isn’t this the type of economy an independent Great Britain wants to do business with?[/FONT][FONT="]
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Finally, there is how he is dealing with the Left’s abuse of the court system to pass laws they can’t persuade the people to vote for. For Americans who want government to leave them alone, the fight for the nine seats on the Supreme Court is crucial. On pivotal cultural issues, the Supreme Court often breaks down their decisions 5-4. President Trump has won praise for his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Court, and now for Brett Kavanaugh. With the Kavanaugh appointment, President Trump will have placed twice as many conservatives on the court as Reagan, George HW Bush or George W Bush. This ticks a key box for Republican voters.
When I think back on what I thought of Trump two years ago, what is amazing is just how conservatively this liberal New Yorker is governing, more so indeed than his recent Republican predecessors. And while the Mueller investigation has not produced any evidence of Russian collusion so far, Trump is accomplishing a great deal – and winning over Never Trumpers like me.
If I can take a second look at the President, and see beyond the hysteria and headlines, I am sure the British people can too. He wants to do business with the United Kingdom and agree to a free trade deal. As you leave the EU, don’t you want to do so as well? It’s up to you, Great Britain.
Sarah Elliott is chair of Republicans Overseas UK
When I think back on what I thought of Trump two years ago, what is amazing is just how conservatively this liberal New Yorker is governing, more so indeed than his recent Republican predecessors. And while the Mueller investigation has not produced any evidence of Russian collusion so far, Trump is accomplishing a great deal – and winning over Never Trumpers like me.
If I can take a second look at the President, and see beyond the hysteria and headlines, I am sure the British people can too. He wants to do business with the United Kingdom and agree to a free trade deal. As you leave the EU, don’t you want to do so as well? It’s up to you, Great Britain.
Sarah Elliott is chair of Republicans Overseas UK
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[h=1]Donald Trump is the president I didn’t want, but now I know we need[/h]
here’s the dominating reason I’ve changed my mind about Trump's ability to lead: judges. I support his picks of Justice Neil Gorsuch, his new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the host of conservative federal judges that Trump has gotten confirmed.
I shudder to think of the activist judges that a President Hillary Clinton would have picked.
In my opinion, Trump has had the most successful 18 months as president than any other I've ever drawn. So yes, I support his presidency.
I admit that I was wrong about Trump. He's not a clown. He's a businessman, entertainer, and now the president that I didn't want but now think we need.
[h=1]Donald Trump is the president I didn’t want, but now I know we need[/h]
here’s the dominating reason I’ve changed my mind about Trump's ability to lead: judges. I support his picks of Justice Neil Gorsuch, his new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the host of conservative federal judges that Trump has gotten confirmed.
I shudder to think of the activist judges that a President Hillary Clinton would have picked.
In my opinion, Trump has had the most successful 18 months as president than any other I've ever drawn. So yes, I support his presidency.
I admit that I was wrong about Trump. He's not a clown. He's a businessman, entertainer, and now the president that I didn't want but now think we need.
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 28m28 minutes agoMore
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[FONT="]3.4 million jobs created since our great Election Victory - far greater than ever anticipated, and only getting better as new and greatly improved Trade Deals start coming to fruition!
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 28m28 minutes agoMore[/FONT]
[FONT="]3.4 million jobs created since our great Election Victory - far greater than ever anticipated, and only getting better as new and greatly improved Trade Deals start coming to fruition!
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 36m36 minutes agoMore
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[FONT="]Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 36m36 minutes agoMore[/FONT]
[FONT="]Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour agoMore
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[FONT="]“A lot of Democrats wished they voted for the Tax Cuts because the economy is booming - we could have 4% growth now and the Fed said yesterday that unemployment could drop again.” @foxandfriends @kilmeade
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour agoMore[/FONT]
[FONT="]“A lot of Democrats wished they voted for the Tax Cuts because the economy is booming - we could have 4% growth now and the Fed said yesterday that unemployment could drop again.” @foxandfriends @kilmeade
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour agoMore
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[FONT="]Congratulations to Martha Roby of The Great State of Alabama on her big GOP Primary win for Congress. My endorsement came appropriately late, but when it came the “flood gates” opened and you had the kind of landslide victory that you deserve. Enjoy!
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour agoMore[/FONT]
[FONT="]Congratulations to Martha Roby of The Great State of Alabama on her big GOP Primary win for Congress. My endorsement came appropriately late, but when it came the “flood gates” opened and you had the kind of landslide victory that you deserve. Enjoy!
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