Understanding Trump

by Newt Gingrich

  But the FBI and the Justice Department covered up her crimes, which included lying to the FBI and Congress on numerous occasions and included saying I do not recall to the FBI on 39 separate times. She recalls everything else, but 39 separate times, she said, I do not recall. That’s a lie, also.

  Then there is the deletion of at least 33,000 e-mails after receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress. That’s after receiving the subpoena. As an example, it was announced this week that the highly respected four-star general, James Cartwright, may be sentenced up to five years in prison with a massive fine for lying on one occasion to the FBI and he said he did that for national security reasons. Highly respected man. A four-star general.

  This took place two days ago. How must he feel? A big part of the rigging of this election is the fact that Hillary is being allowed to run despite having broken so many laws on so many different occasions. Why is she allowed to run?

  The dishonest mainstream media is also part and a major part of this corruption. They are corrupt. They lie and fabricate stories to make a candidate that is not their preferred choice look as bad and even dangerous as possible.

  At my rallies, they never show or talk about the massive crowd size and try to diminish all of our events. On the other hand, they don’t show the small size of Hillary’s crowds, but, in fact, talk about how many people are there, very small crowds. You know it, they know it, and everybody knows it.

  Over the last two days, three highly respected national polls said we are in first place. And one of those pollsters was the most accurate poll on the last two cycles, but the media refuses to even say it or put that word out.

  They refuse to talk about it. They are trying desperately to suppress my vote and the voice of the American people as an example of the power structure I’m fighting, AT&T is buying Time Warner and thus CNN.

  A deal we will not approve in my administration because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. Likewise, Amazon, which through its ownership controls “The Washington Post,” should be paying massive taxes, but it’s not paying.

  It’s a very unfair playing field and you see what that’s doing to department stores all over the country. Very, very unfair and you are talking about billions and billions of dollars they should be paying for taxes.

  Additionally, Comcast’s purchase of NBC concentrates far too much power in one massive entity that is trying to tell the voters what to think and what to do. Deals like this destroy democracy. We’ll look at breaking that deal up and other deals like that.

  This should never, ever have been approved in the first place. They’ve tried to poison the mind of the American voter. Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.

  But a simple phone call placed to the biggest newspapers or television networks gets them wall-to-wall coverage with virtually no fact checking whatsoever. Here is why this is relevant to you. If they can fight somebody like me who has unlimited resources to fight back, just look at what they can do to you, your jobs, your security, your education, your health care, the violation of religious liberty, the theft of your second amendment, the loss of your factories, your homes and much more.

  Look at what they have done to you with your jobs. It has just been learned, on video, that the violent protests at some of my rallies like in Chicago where police and others were seriously hurt, you saw that blood pouring down their face, were caused by paid DNC and Clinton campaign operatives.

  We didn’t know this. We didn’t know this. This just came out two days ago on tape. We didn’t know this. We were amazed at the level of violence. These were paid operatives, paid by the DNC and probably the Clinton campaign.

  This is a criminal act. Policemen were badly hurt and so were many others. These people should be prosecuted, but—but because of the rigged system, they probably won’t be. Just like we found out about these paid violent protesters, it was probably the DNC and the Clinton campaign that put forward these liars with their fabricated stories.

  We’ll find out about their involvement at a later date through litigation. I look so forward to doing that. The rigging of the system is designed for one reason, to keep the corrupt establishment and special interests in power at your expense, at everybody’s expense. I have no special interests but you, the American voter.

  I didn’t have to do this, believe me. There’s nothing easy about it, but, I had to do it. I love our country, I love the people of our country and I felt I had to do it. Thank you.

  One thing we all know is that we will never solve our problems by relying on the same politicians who created these problems in the first place. Hillary Clinton is not running against me, she’s running against change and she’s running against all of the American people and all of the American voters.

  We now find ourselves at that very special fork in the road. Do we repeat the mistakes of the past or do we choose to believe that a great future, yet unwritten, lies ahead for us and for our wonderful, beloved country?

  I think it does. I know it does. My economic plan will deliver at least 25 million jobs in one decade. Now, our jobs have been taken away. They have gone to Mexico. They have gone to so many other countries.

  It’s a one-lane highway where they get the jobs, they get the factories, they get the money, and we get the drugs and we get the unemployment and it’s going to change, believe me, it’s going to change fast.

  That goes for all countries. When you look at China, when you look at every country, every trade deal we have is horrible. We should be ashamed of the people and the people that let those seals happen.

  They are defective and they knew they were defective. They were done for a reason and believe me, they will be unwound so fast and we will have trade. We will have great trade and it will be free trade. It will be fair trade and it will be real.

  My security plan, so important. They have taken the jobs from us. My security plan will bring safety to our poorest communities. [My] ethics plan will end the corruption in our government. We will—corruption is massive. We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government of, by and for the people. Believe me.

  That is why I have chosen Gettysburg to unveil this contract. I’m asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics and to embrace that great faith and optimism that has always been the central ingredient in the American character. There is nothing better or stronger than the American character.

  I am asking the American people to dream big, once again. What follows is my 100-day action plan to make America great again. It’s a contract between Donald J. Trump and the American voter and it begins with bringing honesty, accountability and change to Washington, D.C.

  Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington.

  First, a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. Second, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal work force through attrition, exempting military, public safety and public health.

  Third, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. Regulations are killing our country and our jobs.

  Fourth, a five-year ban on White House and congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service. Making a fortune.

  Fifth, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. Very bad. Six, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections. It’s what’s happening.

  On the same day, I will begin taking and really taking strongly seven actions to protect American workers. Our American workers have been treated so badly by politicians that don’t have their interests at heart.

  And we
are going to change that. We are going to change that very, very fast. First, I will announce my intention to totally re-negotiate NAFTA. One of the worst deals our country has ever made, signed by Bill Clinton. Withdrawal from the deal under Article 2205. Second, I will announce our withdrawal from the Transpacific Partnership, a potential disaster for our country. Third, I will direct my secretary of the treasury to label China a currency manipulator. China is a currency manipulator. What they have done to us by playing currency is very sad.

  I don’t blame them, they have been very smart. I blame our politicians for letting this take place. So easy to stop. So easy to stop. Fourth, I will direct the secretary of commerce and U.S. trade representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately.

  Fifth, very importantly, I will lift the restrictions on the production of 50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy including shale, oil, natural gas, and clean coal. We will put our miners back to work.

  Sixth, I will lift the Obama/Clinton roadblocks that allow for this vital energy infrastructure projects to go forward. We have roadblocks like you have never, ever seen, environmental blocks, structural blocks.

  We are going to allow the Keystone pipeline and so many other things to move forward, tremendous numbers of jobs and good for our country.

  We are going to cancel billions in payments to the United Nations climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure. We are paying billions and billions and billions of dollars. We are going to fix our own environment.

  Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and constitutional rule of law. We have to do that. Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President Obama.

  Second, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia. His wife has a Trump sign, his wife is a phenomenal woman. She has a Trump sign in her front yard. Isn’t that nice?

  I just found that out this morning. Isn’t that nice? From one of the 20 judges of my list, you know we are going to make great decisions from 20 outstanding judges on a list we submitted who will uphold and defend the constitution of the United States.

  Third, we will cancel all federal funding of sanctuary cities. Fourth, we will begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country.

  These are our drug dealers, gang heads, gang members.… And when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, and they had someone who was bad, really bad.

  And they brought them back to the country and the country wouldn’t take them, she said bring them back. We won’t force the country to take them. There won’t be one such instance if I become president, believe me.

  We are going to suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. If you look at Syria, and the migration, we are taking in thousands and thousands of people into our country. We have no idea who they are, what their thought process is, where they come from.

  And Hillary Clinton wants to increase the number of those thousands and thousands currently pouring in by 550 percent. Radical Islamic terror is right around the corner. We have to be so tough, so smart, so vigilant. We can’t allow that to happen. We have enough problems.

  All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting. We will be very careful. Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my administration.

  Middle-class tax relief and simplification act, an economic plan designed to grow the economy 4 percent per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy.

  Need that so badly, jobs, we need jobs. Our jobs have left us. Our good jobs have really left us. The largest tax reductions are for the middle-class who have been forgotten.

  The forgotten man and woman, they have been forgotten. The middle-class with family, of two children, will get basically, approximately a 35 percent tax cut. That’s what they can use. That money will go back into the economy.

  The current number of brackets will be reduced from seven to three. And tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified.

  The business rate will be lowered from 35 percent to 15 percent. And the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can be brought back at a 10 percent rate. It stuck. We can’t bring it back. 2.5 to 5 trillion dollars. Companies can’t get it back into the country. Some companies are actually leaving not only because taxes are so high, but because they can’t get their money and they are actually leaving to get their money. We are going to simplify that. We’re going to have them bring the money back into our country and use the money and spend the money on building our country.

  And the Offshoring Act, established tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their worker in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the United States tax-free. They leave the United States, like Carrier, like Ford, like many others. They leave the United States. They fire all of their employees. They go to Mexico or another country. They build a beautiful, brand-new plant. They hire other people. They then take their air conditioners, their cars, whatever they are making, they send a tax-free across what will be a very strong border, believe me. But they send it tax-free across the border. And what do we end up with? We have unemployment, tremendous losses. And we have none of the benefits. So, we will establish tariffs, that when they do that there will be consequences. We’ll work with them. We’ll be nice. We’ll be fair. But there have to be consequences. And when they know there are consequences, our companies will stop leaving the United States and going to other countries.

  The American Infrastructure Act, leverages public/private partnerships and private investments through tax incentives to spur 1 trillion dollars in infrastructure investment over the next ten years. Our infrastructure is in such trouble. We’ve doubled our national debt to 20 trillion dollars under President Obama. In less than eight years, 10 trillion dollars has been added. Think of it. And we haven’t fixed anything. We haven’t fixed anything. What have we done? Our roads are broken, our bridges, our tunnels, our hospitals, our schools and we have 20 trillion dollars in debt, all-time high. That’s true, our V.A. hospitals are in bad shape and our V.A. is in very, very bad shape. And we will fix that. We are going to work on fixing that because our veterans have not been treated properly. We have illegal immigrants that [are] treated far better in many instances than our veterans. And we’re not going to have that.

  School choice and Education Opportunity Act, redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid, their children to public/private, charter, magnet, religious, or home schools of their choice.

  And so importantly, we are going to end common core and bring education supervision to local communities. We do so badly on education. If you look at the lists and you see Sweden, Norway, Denmark, China, different countries at the top, you see us at the bottom. And yet, by far, per pupil, more money than anybody and it’s not even close. We spend more money per pupil than anybody, not even close. We’re at the bottom of the list. Other countries spending far less per pupil are at the top of the list. So obviously, our current system is not working. We will change it and we will make it good.

  It expands vocational and technical education, which we’ve totally forgotten about in this country and make two- and four-year colleges more affordable. Have you ever gone to school and you’ve been with people that aren’t good students but they can fix an engine or they can build a wall or they can do things that you wouldn’t even think about because we can use some of the ones that build a wall. We’re going to need them. We’re going to need them. We’re going
to need them.

  But, did you ever see that, how they are genius at fixing a car? They can do anything. But history, not so good. Physics, not so good. And we have to open vocational, again. Those are the people. These are great people.

  The repeal and replace Obamacare act.

  Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. And we can do that. The health savings accounts, it’s one way, there are numerous ways. But this is one very good way. The ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, which we have to do because that’s competition. The politicians won’t let go of it because the insurance companies, they don’t want competition. But we’ll open it up. Believe me. We’ll get rid of that. I’ve been saying it for years. And let states manage Medicaid funds. It will be so good.

  Reforms will also include, cutting the red tape at the FDA. There are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval. And we specially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications. I mean, they’re looking at drugs that are looking very good and you have terminal patients that, it’s over. These people, they’re dying. They want to get the drug. They won’t be living much longer. And we study it for years and years. At some point, they have to do what they have to do. They have to do it properly. But we have 4,000 different drugs and products waiting in line for approval and we can’t get them approved. We’re going to speed up that process very significantly.

  Affordable Child Care and Elder Care Act allows Americans to deduct child care and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on site, so important, child care services. And you see that with a couple of companies and it’s such a great thing to see, and creates tax-free dependent care savings of cancer of both young and elderly dependents with matching contributions for low-income families. So good.

  And Illegal Immigration Act. Fully funds the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don’t worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall, with the full understanding that the country of Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such a wall, OK? We’re going to have the wall. Mexico is going to pay for the wall. Mexico’s—by the way I met with the president of Mexico two and a half months ago, wonderful meeting, wonderful person. But I told him, it’s a two-way highway, not a one-way highway. We have our people. We have to take care of our people. We have to protect our people. So it’s got to be a two-way street, otherwise it’s going to be a whole different deal.