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Seth Meyers: Trump Lashes Out After Pelosi Accuses Him of a "Cover-Up"

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)5/23/2019 10:46:42 am PDT

Trump is doing what we rather suspected he was going to do: desperately trying to bribe farmers into sticking with the GOP, despite the long-term damage to their ability to export what they grow:

Another ‘Bale Out’: Trump To Pay ‘Patriot Farmers’ Hurting From His Trade War

When the Trump administration announced last year that it was giving farmers hurt by the President’s multi-front trade war a $12 billion “bale out,” the government insisted it would be a one-time event.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the news in an interview Thursday morning with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo.

“We’re having another market facilitation program in 2019, once these [trade] talks [with China] broke down,” he said.

“China’s going to pay for this $16 billion through tariffs coming in,” Perdue asserted, before confirming that the money would really be coming from his department’s Commodity Credit Corporation program.

The question now is: are farmers dumb enough to buy into all this?