One-third of Americans who voted for President-elect Donald Trump said they chose him because of his business acumen or economic vision, a new poll reveals.Thirty-three percent of Trump voters said, in their own words, they voted for him because of the “economy” or because “he is a good businessman,” a Washington Post-Schar School poll released Friday reveals.“He is a good businessman and doesn’t let anyone take advantage of him,” one Trump voter from Wisconsin told pollsters.
The economy was at a better place when he was in office,” another Trump supporter from Arizona said.But Trump’s record as a businessman isn’t exactly pristine.
Earlier this year, a unanimous jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with payments to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose story about having sex with the now-president-elect threatened to derail his 2016 presidential campaign.New York Justice Juan Merchan refused to throw out the conviction on Monday after a request from Trump’s lawyer, prompting the president-elect to lash out on Truth Social
Merchan, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it,” Trump wrote.Trump is also barred from serving as an officer or director of any corporation in New York for the next three years after Judge Arthur Engoron ruled the Trump Organization violated the state’s fraud laws. Trump and his company owe more than $400 million in fines as a result. His two sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are under the same ban for two years.
During Trump’s first term, his tax cuts did not deliver the growth he promised, his budget deficits rose and his tariffs failed to increase factory jobs in the U.S., the Associated Press reported.
As he readies a return to the White House, Trump has said that Canada and Mexico could see a 25 percent tariff added to all imported goods while China could face an additional 10 percent during his second term. He claims this is part of an effort to curtail “crime and drugs” coming into the country and slow the number of illegal border crossings.
