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Chris Hayes started with this clip from Trump:
"The global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind."
So that's what he said to voters. And then a week after he won that election, he went to the 21 Club restaurant, Midtown Manhattan, a former speakeasy frequented by the rich and the powerful. And he told the plutocrats there something completely different.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you.
Thank you for getting your taxes down.
Thank you.
Yeah, I love them.
We'll get your taxes down. Don't worry.
That was one of the rare promises that Donald Trump absolutely kept in 2017. He signed a $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut bill, largely for the rich and corporations. It was hands down the largest, the least popular piece of legislation he ever signed and his most important, a plan that gave lots of breaks to the rich, to corporations and didn't stimulate the economy.
It also -- and people forget this -- it gave Trump his lowest approval rating until the Capitol insurrection.
Trump is now thinking about doing it again because fundamentally, that is whose interests Donald Trump is looking to serve, even as he accuses his challengers of being captured by rich special interests.
Nikki Haley has been in the pocket of the open borders establishment donors her entire career, and she's a globalist.
You know, she likes to globe.
I like America first.