Trump’s “Love for middle class”
Though his followers believe differently, King Trump has spent over three decades cheating laborers, contractors, realtors and even some of the lawyers who represented him. Some contractors had to declare bankruptcy.
Most of the time, after contract work was done, he offered 30 cents on the dollar and refused to go higher, making false claims about the quality.
He has been the object of over 3,500 lawsuits in three decades. There have also been 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 for failing to pay overtime or minimum wage to his employees.
He has enriched himself at the expense of “peons” he considers beneath him. That would be everybody in the world, except for occasional dictators.
He is using government shutdown blackmail and his usual truck full of lies to pout and bully his way to a wall that would soon be breached anyway.
In fact, the wall could likely cost $25 billion to over $50 billion. A substantial amount of the cost would be lawsuits from American landowners on the Rio Grande River who will lose land and valuable access to the river.
Who will pay for that?
The middle class, of course.
Trump could care less.
Ken Carpenter
Moyie Springs, Idaho