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    What America Needs: The Case for Trump
    What America Needs: The Case for Trump
    What America Needs: The Case for Trump
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    What America Needs: The Case for Trump

    By Jeffrey Lord

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    A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegnery
    Release dateJan 8, 2016
    ISBN9781621575252
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      What America Needs - Jeffrey Lord

      What America Needs

      Copyright © 2016 by Jeffrey Lord

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, website, or broadcast.

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      First e-book edition 2016: ISBN 978-1-62157-525-2

      Originally published in hardcover, 2016

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      Donald Trump’s position papers reprinted with permission. For more information, go to https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions.

      For my mother, Kathleen J. Lord—at ninety-six still encouraging her son. And my dad, Nelville B. Buzz Lord—no longer here but always present.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Reason One

      America Needs a Defender

      Reason Two

      America Needs a Truth-Teller

      Reason Three

      America Needs a Debt-Bomb Defuser

      Reason Four

      America Needs a Leader Who Can Get Things Done

      Reason Five

      America Needs a President Who Puts America First

      Reason Six

      America Needs a Rebuilder for the Republican Party

      Reason Seven

      America Needs a Champion

      Acknowledgments

      Appendix: What Trump Really Believes

      Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again

      Reforming the U.S.-China Trade Relationship to Make America Great Again

      Veterans Administration Reforms That Will Make America Great Again

      Protecting Our Second Amendment Rights Will Make America Great Again

      Tax Reform That Will Make America Great Again

      Introduction

      Appearing on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier , Washington Post columnist George Will was asked how much he would bet in the show’s Candidate Casino on various potential 2016 Republican candidates. Replied Will: One dollar on Donald Trump in the hope that he will be tempted to run, be predictably shellacked, and we will be spared evermore this quadrennial charade of his.

      Will has called Trump an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly vulgar presidential candidate. And he’s not alone. Kevin Williamson of National Review has called Trump a witless ape who grunts like a baboon. Williamson (who is apparently unaware that Abraham Lincoln was frequently scorned as a gorilla by his critics and contemptuously derided as a well meaning baboon by no less than Union General George McClellan) also wrote about imagining a Trump sex tape. Such is his chivalry, he referred to the beautiful Melania Trump as Donald Trump’s plastic-surgery-disaster wife. His colleague at National Review, Rich Lowry, was equally high-minded, saying in late September 2015 that in a recent debate Carly Fiorina had cut Trump’s balls off. If, two months later, as Lowry sat down to his Thanksgiving Dinner, he happened to look at the polls, he would see Trump still leading the field, with Carly Fiorina mired in the single digits—so much for pundit prescience.

      Many on the Right were so exasperated by Trump’s success that they actually asked if he was a Democrat plant; others, less conspiracy-minded, simply dismissed Trump as an embarrassment. Barely a month into Trump’s candidacy, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page cheerfully predicted his inevitable self-immolation. The paper’s owner, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, tweeted: When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country? The mainstream media, and almost every pundit left and right—with a few singular exceptions, like Charles Hurt at the Washington Times—have shown how out of touch they are with the American people by their humiliatingly wrong, yet endlessly repeated, predictions that Trump’s popularity was a blip that would be gone in an instant. The reality is that Donald Trump has soared to the top of the polls—and stayed there because he has a message that resonates with the American people. The media might mock Trump for saying, We will have so much winning if I get elected you may get bored with winning, but to the American people it seems like we haven’t won for a long time, let alone had a president who put our nation’s security and prosperity first, and Trump, at least, is willing to try.

      His so-called vulgarity is seen by most Americans as honesty—the same sort of honesty that the American people saw in such alleged vulgarians as Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Harry Truman whom the American people regarded as tough, plain-speaking leaders; and Trump has certainly been no more vulgar than his critics.

      The fact is, Trump’s connection with the American people is real. His appearances have attracted record-breaking crowds, filling vast athletic arenas with tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters, and his appeal has boosted the stature of other anti-Establishment Republicans. In the 2015 Kentucky governor’s race, for instance, Republican Matt Bevin, written off by the pundits as a sure loser, won in a landslide, and a chastened Democrat operative ascribed the victory to Trump-mania.

      As 2015 came to a close, the Washington Post reported that there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump. . . .

      Why is the Republican Establishment afraid of the party’s most popular candidate? Don’t they want to win? And why is a blunt-talking businessman, who has never held public office, the most likely Republican, as I write, to win the party’s nomination and perhaps the presidency itself?

      The answer is that there is a vast chasm between the average American voter and the political class—and Trump, more effectively than anyone else, has leapt to the voters’ side. As Charles Hurt noted in the Washington Times: Donald Trump—the great salesman-statesman—not only intimately understands the product he is selling (himself), he also has a deeply instinctual understanding of his customer (voters). He understands what they want, how they think and how to reach them.

      The Republican Establishment looks to manipulate the average American to get his vote and get reelected; making good on policy promises is much less important than simply holding office and playing up to the media. Trump the billionaire, ironically and by contrast, shares the concerns of the average American and gives him a voice—saying what, to the Establishment, is unsayable about immigration, trade, and terrorism, among other topics; and voters believe he means it and will act on it.

      Political pundits live in a world of ideas and, all too frequently, cynical speculation about hidden motives. We like slick policy statements and detailed policy-wonk interviews, because it makes our job seem important—not that it isn’t! But the average American voter is much more concerned about a leader’s priorities and his commitment to action. Trump has the average American’s priorities—he wants to make America great again, after more than a decade of apparent decline. And unlike the politicians in Washington, he seems a man of resolute action, and not someone who will be intimidated by opposition or the media.

      Millions of those Trump-supporting average Americans have had enough. They are tired of being dismissed as rubes, nativists, xenophobes, gun nuts, and anti-immigrant racists by the media and the political class. They agree with Trump that the Establishment has proven itself to be incompetent at best or simply stupid. It’s hard to imagine how Donald Trump could do worse—and there are many reasons, which I’ve narrowed down to seven, to think that he could do much, much better and be the president America needs to meet this nation’s most pressing challenges.

      REASON ONE

      America Needs a Defender

      When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. . . . They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems. . . . They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.

      And some, I assume, are good people.

      —Donald Trump, announcing his presidential campaign, June 16, 2015

      Donald Trump’s remarks about illegal immigrants from Mexico, remarks made in his speech announcing his candidacy, launched the proverbial political firestorm. The political, business, and media Establishment threw a fit—accusing Trump, the husband, son, and grandson of immigrants, of being anti-immigrant when in fact he

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