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Trump Praises Drivers That Biden Campaign Says Tried To Run Bus ‘Off The Road’

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Trump Praises

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President Donald Trump on Saturday offered praise to a group of pro-Trump pickup truck drivers in Texas who surrounded and slowed a Biden campaign bus and who the Biden campaign accused of trying to run it “off the road,” underscoring allegations that Trump encourages his supporters to act violently.

“I LOVE TEXAS!” Trump tweeted, along with a video of a dozen pickup trucks, sporting American and pro-Trump flags, following a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a highway in Texas.

The scene appeared to show the same incident chronicled in other videos posted to social media on Friday and Saturday showing the trucks following the bus and, in one case, ramming a white SUV accompanying it.

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IMF’s ‘Deep Recession’ Talk Ignores Economic Reality

Deep Recession
Deep Recession

The head of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) says the global economy is “not out of the woods.” Yet it’s hard not to worry that Kristalina Georgieva is missing the forest through the trees.

The 4.4% contraction in world gross domestic product the IMF expects for 2020 is one thing. But the 5.2% growth it predicts for 2021 makes me wonder what’s in the water in Washington. It also suggests global elites are already being complacent about the need to up stimulus as Covid-19 fallout intensifies.

Other than China, after all, where are the 2021 growth engines? China, remember, remains an export power. So, without external growth China’s prospects top out pretty quickly. IMF