Understanding Trump

by Newt Gingrich

  But, it establishes a two-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentences if people come in illegally for illegally re-entering the United States after a previous deportation. And a five-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations. So, when somebody comes in, we send them out. They come back in, they go to prison for quite a while. If they come back, if they come back again, they go five years. Because what’s happening is they’re coming back ten times.

  And I could go case after case, they come back. Look at what happened in San Francisco. Five times he came back. On the fifth time, he killed Kate, five times. But so many others, one ten times came back, killed somebody after ten times. When they get deported, they stay out. Otherwise, they have very serious prison terms. They will stay out. Once you do that, they will stay out. Right now, they have no consequence. They have no consequences.

  Also, reforms on visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first. Number eight. Restoring Community Safety Act, reduces surge in crime, drugs and violence by creating a task force on violent crime, and increasing funding for programs that train and assist your local police. We’re doing such a great job. Believe me.

  The increase of resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs. And put violent offenders behind bars or out of our country and into the country where they came from.

  Restoring National Security Act which rebuilds our military, by eliminating the defense sequester, which has been very tough for our military and expanding military investment.

  Now, at no time, practically, do we need a military like right now. We don’t want to use it. But it’s peace through strength. We need a strong military. Our military is so terribly depleted. It also provides our great veterans with the ability to receive public V.A. treatment or attend a private doctor of their choice. If they are waiting in line and I have the plan up. And we’ve gotten, as you know, tremendous support from veterans, from law enforcement, from veterans, from the military, tremendous support.

  But if they are waiting in line and you see 22 suicides a day. People don’t believe it, 22 a day. But if they’re waiting in line for seven days, six days, nine days, they can’t get to see a doctor. And a simple procedure or a simple prescription can solve their problem and they become very sick and they die. They die waiting in line. We’re going to give them the power to go across the street, to a local doctor, a private doctor, a public hospital or private hospital, all looking to help and all looking to do business. And we’ll pay the bill. So much cheaper, but much more importantly, the veterans will finally be taken care of properly. Because what they’re going through now is unacceptable.

  Also, we’re going to protect our vital infrastructure from the new thing. It’s called cyber-attack. It establishes new screen[ing] procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values. We want people that love our country or can love our country and people that will love our citizens. We want people that can love us.

  And there are ways, through talent, of determining that. And other countries do, but we don’t. Just come on in, folks, come on in. Clean up corruption in Washington, enact tough new ethic reforms to reduce the corrupting influence of special interests and donors on our politics.

  On November 8th, Americans will be voting for this 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our country, secure our communities and honesty to our government.

  This is my pledge to you. And if we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by and for the people. And importantly, we will make America great again. Believe me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

  ENDNOTES

  Chapter One: From Queens to the White House

  1. www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-entering- 2016- presidential-race-article-1.2259706.

  2. www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html#polls.

  3. www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/business/lockheed-lowers-price-on-f-35-fighters-after-prodding-by-trump.htm.

  Chapter Two: The Four-Sided Table

  1. www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public.

  2. www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/28/trumps-lobbying-ban-is-both-tougher-and-weaker-than-obamas-rules.

  3. http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech.

  4. www.reuters.com/video/2015/09/09/trump-we-are-led-by-very-very-stupid-peo?videoId=365547835.

  5. www.raps.org/Regulatory-Focus/News/2017/02/02/26759/Trump-Signals- Support-for-Right-to-Try-Movement.

  Chapter Three: Winning, Big League

  1. www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/02/survey-career-oriented-troops-favor-trump-over-clinton.html.

  Chapter Four: The Rise of the IYI

  1. www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington-a-world-apart.

  Chapter Five: The Propaganda Media

  1. www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/427.pdf.

  2. www.weeklystandard.com/four-year-honeymoon/article/693769.

  3. www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/jake-tapper/cnns-tapper-obama-has-used-espionage-act-more-all-.

  4. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html.

  5. www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ex-trump-girlfriend-new-york-times-223205.

  6. www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/for-illegal-immigrants-american-life-lived-in-shadows.html.

  7. http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/family/immigration/article5.html.

  8. www.pewinternet.org/2016/11/11/social-media-update-2016-methodology.

  9. www.brandwatch.com/blog/96-amazing-social-media-statistics-and-facts- for-2016.

  Chapter Six: Toxic Identity Politics

  1. www.psychologytoday.com/blog/culturally-speaking/201112/colorblind-ideology-is-form-racism.

  2. www.gallup.com/poll/1687/race-relations.aspx.

  3. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01my-president-was-black/508793.

  4. Ibid.

  5. www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/magazine/the-year-we-obsessed-over-identity.html.

  6. www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/24/why- intersectionality-cant-wait.

  7. Ibid.

  8. www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/us/womens-march-on-washington-opens-contentious-dialogues-about-race.html.

  9. www.salon.com/2013/04/16/lets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_ a_white_american.

  10. www.salon.com/2015/12/16/white_guys_are_killing_us_toxic_cowardly_masculinity_our_unhealable_national_illness

  11. http://heatst.com/culture-wars/thought-catalog-publishes-an-enthusiastic- call-for-white-genocide.

  12. www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_the_very_future_of_the_planet_depends_on_it_partner/

  13. www.salon.com/2015/07/07/the_plague_of_angry_white_men_how_racism_gun_culture_toxic_masculinity_are_poisoning_america_in_tandem.

  14. www.buzzfeed.com/pedrofequiere/stop-white-ppl-2015.

  15. www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/wherewearegoing.htm.

  16. www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism

  17. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson- learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown.

  18. www.nationaljournal.com/s/32748/emerging-republican-advantage.

  19. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/with-diversity-on-the-left-the-white-working-class-moves-right/493286/

  20. www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/rust-belt-democrats-saw-trump- wave-coming

  21. www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html.

  22. www.politico.com/story/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democrats-identity- politics-231710.

  23. https://news.grabien.com/story-dnc-chair-candidates-bash-white-people- raciallycharged-foru.

 
24. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/can-clinton-win-back- appalachia/480900.

  25. http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/29/white-identity-politics-gave-us-trump-bu.

  Chapter Seven: The Great Transition

  1. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=12000&year1=1945&year2=2017.

  2. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US&name_desc=false.

  3. www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/north-american-free-trade-agreement.asp.

  4. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/nafta-20-years-later-benefits-outweigh-costs.

  5. www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/north-american-free-trade-agreement.asp.

  Chapter Nine: The Permanent Opposition

  1. https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/march-2-1877-rutherford-b-hayes-declared-winner-over-samuel-tilden-in-disputed-presidential-election.

  2. www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html.

  3. www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public.

  4. www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/trump-inauguration-protests-womens-march.

  5. www.kptv.com/story/34310810/bottles-flares-thrown-at-police-during-march-this-is-no-longer-a-peaceful-protest.

  6. http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2017/01/20/billionaire-george-soros-has-ties-to-more-than-50-partners-of-the-womens-march-on-washington.

  7. www.aei.org/publication/margaret-thatcher-was-a-powerful-voice-for- free-enterprise-and-liberty.

  8. http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/302817-government-workers-shun-trump-give-big-money-to-clinton-campaign.

  9. http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/28/warning-trumps-epa-secretary-will-have-16000-employees-working-against-him.

  10. http://time.com/4067019/gallup-horse-race-polling.

  Chapter Ten: The Safety Box

  1. www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2015-crime-statistics.

  2. www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-preliminary-semiannual-crime-statistics-for-2016.

  3. www.gallup.com/poll/190475/americans-concern-crime-climbs-year-high.aspx.

  4. www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32400497.

  5. www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/poa_crime.shtml.

  6. www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drugs-poppies-idUSBRE96B01920130712.

  7. www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-apprehensions-20170309-story.html.

  8. http://ijr.com/2017/03/822619-i-had-dinner-with-the-afghanistan-ambassador-what-he-said-about-the-differences-between-trump-obama-is-stunning/

  9. www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/18/most-americans-trust-the-military-and-scientists-to-act-in-the-publics-interest.

  Chapter Eleven: The American Competitiveness Box

  1. www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade.

  2. https://taxfoundation.org/federal-capital-gains-tax-collections-1954-2009.

  3. www.bls.gov/bls/news-release/empsit.htm#1997.

  4. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N.

  5. www.thebalance.com/dow-jones-closing-history-top-highs-and-lows- since-1929-3306174.

  6. http://simplifygov.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/washingtonpost.com-Six-presidents-have-failed-to-cut-red-tape-Heres-how-Trump-could-succeed-2.pdf.

  7. www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.a.htm#jolts_tablea.f.p.

  8. www.curbed.com/2017/2/1/14474716/construction-vocational-training-labor- shortage-homebuilding.

  9. www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/30/job-economy-middle-skill-growth-wage-blue-collar/14797413.

  Chapter Twelve: The Health Box

  1. www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2015/12/04/for-hepatitis-c-drugs-u-s-prices-are-cheaper-than-in-europe/#5cc2c0d564bb.

  2. J. A. DiMasi, H. G. Grabowski, and R. A. Hansen, “Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: New Estimates of R&D Costs,” Journal of Health Economics 47 (2016): 20–33.

  3. Alexander Tabarrok, Christopher-Paul Milne, and Joseph A. DiMasi, An FDA Report Card: Wide Variance in Performance Found Among Agency’s Drug Review, (Manhattan Institute, 2014).

  4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5243120.

  Chapter Thirteen: The Making-Government-Work Box

  1. www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2016/09/report-federal-government-has-near-monopoly-worst-customer-experience/131260.

  2. www.people-press.org/2015/11/23/beyond-distrust-how-americans-view- their-government.

  3. www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/10/30/more-than-2500-va-employees-were-on-paid-leave-last-year-the-va-hasnt-tracked-why.

  4. www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/06/ousted-phoenix-va-chief- lawsuit/70889960.

  5. www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2016/01/08/suspended-va-bosses-return-phoenix-jobs-january-11/78517854; www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2016/06/08/three-more-phoenix-va-officials-fired-after-wait-time-scandal/85614056.

  6. www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/oversight/2016/06/09/va-fires-phoenix-execs-after-2-years-investigations/85643224.

  7. https://www.reviewjournal.com/uncategorized/nevada-rep-titus-calls-for-investigation-of-veterans-affairs-job-moves/.

  8. http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/va-wants-to-remove-pittsburgh- hospitals-director.

  9. http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2017/02/22/va-employee-suspended- years-after-death-patient/98259530/

  10. http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/08/va-candy-man-may-keep-his-job-despite- no-medical-license.

  11. www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/02/13/taxpayers-pay-millions- to-keep-questionable-va-doctors-on-leave/79659046.

  12. Ibid.

  13. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Sherk-Statement-IRS-Abuses-7-30.pdf.

  14. http://dailysignal.com/2016/06/16/government-rates-99-of-federal-employees- fully-successful-or-higher.

  15. www.fedview.opm.gov/2016FILES/2016_FEVS_Gwide_Final_Report.PDF.

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