The poll in the cited OpEd is this one ...
New National UMass Amherst Poll Finds More than Half of Americans Disapprove of President Trump's Job Performance
www.umass.edu
... The nationwide survey of 1,000 respondents, conducted April 4-9, found that while 44% approve of the job Trump has done thus far in his second term, 51% disapprove.
"Three months into his second administration, the honeymoon might be over for President Donald Trump as a majority of Americans (51%) express disapproval of the job that he is doing," says Tatishe Nteta, provost professor of political science at UMass Amherst and director of the poll.
"While Trump enjoys majoritarian approval from his base of voters that includes Republicans (89%), conservatives (83%), Trump voters (87%) and older Americans (50%), the same cannot be said for Americans across many generational, educational, income and racial groups where Trump's approval ratings are now underwater, with more members of these groups expressing disapproval or uncertainty than approval.
With more than three years to go in Trump's second presidency, there is still time for the president to right the ship, but the challenges posed by the economy, foreign affairs and the Democratic Party will likely make this a difficult endeavor." ...
"S&P 500 close April 8: 4994"
The day before the election, the Dow was 42,000 - now it is 39,000 - yeah, less than 10%.
"... Inflation is at multi-year low ..."
www.cnbc.com
The consumer price index fell a seasonally adjusted 0.1% in March, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.4%, down from 2.8% in February.
Excluding food and energy, so-called core inflation ran at a 2.8% annual rate, having increased 0.1% for the month. That was the lowest rate for core inflation since March 2021.
"OK, that aside, if one of the two Congressional mandates for the Fed is the mandate to control inflation, why does Pres Trump want to replace the Fed Chair?"
Because the decrease in inflation had ------- to do with the Fed's actions.
"Please explain the due process that those who were deported had access to under Pres Trump?"
Well, the 'Maryland Father' has MS13 gang tats, identified as a MS13 member to agents, and had 2 hearings before he was deported. His 2 wife-beating charges - I assume his ------- wife dropped as battered women do this often.
"I don't have an issue with deporting those who should deported.
#17 | Posted by LampLighter"
Clarify - who should be deported? In your mind, if their sole crime was entering illegally, should they be deported?
@#38 ... And up until the late 1990s that person was his dad. ...
But what about the post-1990's?
Who financed his apparent financial failures?
BaFin to Deepen Deutsche Bank Money Laundering Investigation (Feb 2019)
www.financemagnates.com
...Deutsche Bank released a statement on Friday saying that BaFin, the German financial regulator, has extended the remit of an independent auditor examining the lender's role in the Danske Bank money laundering scandal.
The case stems from an ongoing investigation into the Danish bank's Estonian division.
After a whistle-blower sounded the alarm about the activity of certain customers, most of whom were from Russia and the former Soviet Union, in late 2018, it became apparent that Danske Bank's Tallinn-based operations were doing business with some less than scrupulous individuals.
It is alleged that the bank laundered around $225 billion from 2007 to 2014. If that is the case, it would potentially be the largest instance of money laundering ever uncovered.
Deutsche Bank falls into the mix as it acted as Danske Bank's main correspondent bank. According to the Financial Times, the German bank was responsible for facilitating $180 billion in suspicious transactions....
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Deutsche Bank Offices Are Raided In Money Laundering Probe (Nov 2018)
www.npr.org
...In recent years, Deutsche Bank has been in the news not only for its prominence in the Panama Papers, but also for its ties to President Trump, in a tumultuous relationship that goes back some 20 years.
Trump and the bank once sued each other after he failed to repay a $300 million loan. And the author and reporter Luke Harding has described a "shuffle of money" between the bank's dealings with figures in Russia and its business with Trump. ...
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@#39 ... reporter Luke Harding has described a "shuffle of money" ...
That's a curious search term.
One result here was ...
OpEd: Two sides of the globe, one painful lesson: Trump is debasing America (2019)
www.nydailynews.com
... No matter how low your opinion may be of President Trump, he'll always find a way to lower it. On Wednesday, he outdid himself, breaking even the laws of physics by reaching new depths in two places at once. In Washington, Trump was revealed to be even more traitorous, venal and outright criminal than already assumed thanks to the congressional testimony of his long-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen. Just hours later, in Hanoi, Trump was forced to walk away from his latest love-fest summit with one of the world's bloodiest dictators, North Korea's Kim Jong Un. ...
