I usually don't comment much on debates, usually because they aren't, but it has become clear that Trump has nothing new, he relies on immigration (immigrants are Hannibal Lecters coming to eat you and your dogs and cats) and personal insults. He has yet to address why, during his four years as president, he failed to fix immigration nor build his infamous wall, perhaps because he couldn't get Mexico to pay for it.
Getting others to pay for his mistakes seems to be a recurrent theme in his life. And it takes real talent to bankrupt some of his efforts. How do you run a casino into bankruptcy; they are a license to print money. His steak and university businesses went bust in a swirl of fraud. His major claim to fame after squandering his father's $413 million is a reality show where he gets to fire people. (Harris's line about him getting fired in the last election by 81 million Americans was priceless.) Since then his major asset appears to be his name which he wildly over inflates in value along with everything else (including the square footage of his apartment) as we learned from his 34 counts of fraud conviction in NY. In each of his business bankruptcies it was others who got left holding the bag and paying for his mismanagement.
He's offering the same plan as solutions: get Mexico to pay for the wall, get China to pay for our debt and trade imbalance through tariffs. It's like he never learned anything at Wharton (perhaps his dad paid them off, too) about Smoot-Hawley and the damage that did to the world economy.
Let's face it: he's just an old man, desperately clinging to reality show laurels and needing to win the presidency so he can stay out of jail.
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