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Donald Trump is the Left’s Favorite Scapegoat

<p>Ever since Donald Trump won the presidential election in November 2016&comma; Democrats and the liberal media have been blaming him for everything&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>In recent months&comma; Democrats have blamed Trump for&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Global unrest<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Americans&&num;8217&semi; drinking habits<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Layoffs by Ford<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Rising Obamacare premiums<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Future violence caused by 3D-printed guns<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Suicide rates in Puerto Rico<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>In September&comma; the editorial board of <em>The Washington Post<&sol;em> said Trump was &&num;8220&semi;complicit” for Hurricane Florence based on his views about climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>Honestly&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m surprised there hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been a study linking Trump’s tweets to global warming&period; <&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last week&comma; <em>Vanity Fair<&sol;em> correspondent and MSNBC contributor Gabriel Sherman blamed Trump when an elderly man bumped into his young daughter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Trump’s America is a vicious and divided place&period; Today&comma; a 60-something man walked into my 15-month old daughter&comma; knocking her to the ground with a bloody nose&comma;” tweeted Sherman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>Um…what&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Trump has allowed people &&num;8211&semi; especially rich white people &&num;8211&semi; to exhibit the worst kind of victimhood and lack of empathy&comma;” continued Sherman&comma; who by the way is rich and white&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another recent example is New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez’s claim that Trump has failed to nominate candidates for important diplomatic posts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Trump&&num;8217&semi;s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;inability to adequately or appropriately fill key national security positions puts our nation at risk&comma;” complained Menendez last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>In reality&comma; Trump’s nominees are being held up by Senate Democrats&period; <&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are more than 60 State Department nominees awaiting confirmation&comma;” pointed out Sec&period; of State Mike Pompeo last Wednesday&period; One of those is Kimberly Breier&comma; who has been waiting seven months for a vote to confirm her as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs &&num;8211&semi; a key position which would have her overseeing America&&num;8217&semi;s response to the crisis in Venezuela&comma; to Colombia’s cocaine problem&comma; and to Russia and China&&num;8217&semi;s growing influence in Central and South America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are also 49 ambassadorial nominees awaiting confirmation &&num;8211&semi; only one of which is being stalled by Republicans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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