Robert Reich's update for Trump voters.

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1. He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria.

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Meh. IMO the limits of intervention is regime change with boots on the ground. If this and other strikes are discrete to set Assad straight I believe most Trump supporters are okay. However if Trump gets into ME meddling like Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan he will lose his supporters en masse.

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2. He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s unlikely that we will build a wall.”

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This is contingent upon congress to get the ball rolling. Trump and the executive branch are ready.

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3. He said he’d clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. Then he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses.

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This is a problem. Reich is correct about this.

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4. He said he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “wonderful.” You bought it. Then he didn’t.

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This is contingent upon congress.

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5. He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. Then he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge.

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This subjective and a media created narrative.

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6. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.

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Right, he never will. But no one except his opponents care about him releasing his tax returns. No one else cares.

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7. He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You bought it. He remains heavily involved in his businesses, makes money off of foreign dignitaries staying at his Washington hotel, gets China to give the Trump brand trademark and copyright rights, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.

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IMO only his opponents care about this. If it gets to a point where Trump is egregious and obvious as the Clintons were with leveraging government power to enrich themselves then his supporters will call foul.

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8. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.

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This is true. However it hasn't been proven yet that the Trump Goldman Sachs cronyism has reached the Clinton Goldman Sachs level of cronyism...yet.

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9. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it. Then he put Betsy DeVos, opponent of public education, in charge of education; Jeff Sessions, opponent of the Voting Rights Act, in charge of voting rights; Ben Carson, opponent of the Fair Housing Act, in charge of fair housing; Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Russian quisling Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.

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This is a plus. Theses are fantastic appointments. Generally Trump supporters like these appointments.

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10. He said he’d faithfully execute the law. You bought it. Then he said his predecessor, Barack Obama, spied on him, without any evidence of Obama ever doing so, in order to divert attention from the FBI’s investigation into collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to win the election.

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It will be proven that the Obama administration spied on team Trump during the campaign.

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11. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the generals did. You bought it. Then he green lighted a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though his generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained

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This is a subjective and biased view of that operation by Reich.

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12. He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. He has by now spent more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business.

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Time spent at Mar A Largo is not a vacation. That's just his lifestyle.

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13. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. Now he gets his information from Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.

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Reich is right. CNN, WaPo and the NYTs are not fake news. They are "very fake news". Especially CNN.

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