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Is Trump Buying Farmers’ Votes?

Posted on January 3, 2020 by

‘Trump Money’ Is Buying Silence as Unprecedented Payments Go to Farmers “‘Trump money’ is what we call it,’ Missouri farmer Robert Henry told NPR of the taxpayer-funded subsidies sent to him and other farmers by the Department of Agriculture. Farm … Continue reading →

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Trump Supporting Farmers Are Not Necessarily Being “Patriotic”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by

What a messed up frame on this issue by Iowa Press.  So apparently a farmer at a Demcoratic candidate town hall said something like, “we’re being asked to be patriotic…”  Unclear exactly what that means, but nonetheless that was how … Continue reading →

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