What Wasn’t Trump Right About?

Boy, couldn’t we all do with some of President Trump’s mean tweets, right now? I mean, if the price of a clique of online leftists and legacy media hacks being perpetually outraged is a booming American economy and more stable world with no war in Europe, well, bring on the Trumpian insults and braggadoccio.

And for a president supposedly in cahoots with Vladimir Putin, it’s odd how well-behaved Putin was on Trump’s watch. In fact, the only times Putin has invaded other countries are when a Democrat is in the White House.

Donald Trump remains as polarising as ever, but as time goes on his policies and advice have come to look prescient.

Consider Trump’s warnings that Germany – and much of Europe – was making itself dangerously dependent on Russian energy.

“Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course,” Trump said at the UN. Germany went on to import about 40 per cent of its energy from Russia, paralysing the powerhouse in the face of Russian aggression only a few years later.

That was no small matter on which to be correct; indeed, Germany’s policy has proved one of the greatest geopolitical blunders of the past half-century.

The Germans sniggered and the legacy media sneered, but who can deny that Trump was completely correct?

Trump was also correct when he called NATO nations to account for their dangerous negligence on defence spending. Suddenly, half of NATO is scrambling to make up for its years of freeloading.

Trump also made America energy-independent for the first time in decades. Thanks to Joe Biden’s very first act in office, that’s all a distant dream now.

The Trump administration encouraged the Keystone oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada, through to Texas, which would have brought an additional 800,000 barrels of oil a day into the US, according to Canadian officials – about four times the amount the US imported from Russia last year.

The Biden administration cancelled the pipeline permanently on coming into office and now is flailing about trying to increase fossil fuel energy production as it parrots the need to transition to solar and wind power. It’s an invidious position.

Also in late 2018, the Trump administration imposed tariffs on Chinese imports to much gnashing of teeth across the political spectrum. Some called it racist. The Biden administration not only has kept the tariffs in place, it also has doubled down on the Trump administration’s tough approach to China.

Trump’s policies on Iran and North Korea were similarly ridiculed but both nations remained relatively quiescent throughout his presidency, unlike now, when North Korea is firing ever more advanced missiles every other week.

Despite Democrat screeching when Trump did it, Biden has notably declined to reverse Trump’s shifting of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Nor have they reopened a “Palestinian consulate”.

Then there’s the complete and utterly humiliating bollixing Biden made of Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan. The US southern border is another Biden horror story, with 200,000 illegals a month flooding, unchecked, into the country. A figure which is likely to get exponentially worse if Biden ends Title 42.

Then there is the small matter of the Democrats and their media cronies lying for the past five years about what by rights should have been the biggest American political scandal since Watergate.

To what amounted to guffaws of laughter, Trump repeatedly claimed he was spied on by Democrat operatives before and immediately after he became president in 2017. “This is 60 Minutes, and we can’t put on things we can’t verify,” senior journalist Lesley Stahl said in an interview with Trump in late 2020.

Justice Department special counsel John Durham, appointed to investigate the matter in February this year, has proffered evidence that Trump was right. It also turned out the so-called Steele dossier – front page news throughout 2020, alleging Trump had colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin and even cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow – was entirely made up, as Trump had argued all along.

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And that’s not even counting Hunter Biden’s laptop.

So, what about the 2020 election?

Trump insists that it was fraudulent, while the Democrats, the experts and the media all chorus that that is “without foundation”. But, as we have seen, on nearly every other issue where the Swamp sneered at the Bad Orange Man, history has proved him right.