Trump Gave More Money to Pentagon Than Even the Brass Asked For. Now He Says It’s All a Racket
Which one is it?
First year in office Trump made it a point to raise the DoD budget by more than even the Pentagon had asked for, and then spent the next four years bragging by how much he grew the Pentagon budget. Now he says the Pentagon brass is all about shoveling money to defense corporations:
“I’m not saying the military’s in love with me. The soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t, because they want to do nothing but fight wars so all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs & make the planes & make everything else stay happy.”
President Trump says “The top people at the Pentagon” probably aren’t too happy with him because he wants to end Endless Wars. pic.twitter.com/xDCwoEh4WM
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 7, 2020
I’m sorry but you can not be both of these things at once. You can not say it is all a racket, and at the same time be the guy who poured more money into the scam than anyone else, and bragged about it.
He even puts something in there about Joe Biden and “one globalist betrayal after another”. LOL. What is that even supposed to mean? Joe Biden is an establishment Democrat, nobody expects different from him anyway. There is no “betrayal” there.
The betrayal is all Trump’s. A betrayal of his base that he spent the last four years shafting. Now — two minutes before midnight — he is finally reminded of them again, and desperately courting them. After not having done anything for them in 4 years. Now that’s a whole nother level of shamelessness, Biden has nothing on him in that department.
There are no bigger drama queens on earth than CNN’s national security reporters and analysts: https://t.co/aLXVtA41cD
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 7, 2020
Here's a lesser-known part of Eisenhower's Farewell Address. He had 16 minutes on TV to warn Americans of what he thought they most needed to know, and used it primarily to emphasize the dangers of Pentagon growth, weapons spending, and the threats of Endless War: pic.twitter.com/qFYuyjm2dD
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 7, 2020