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Trump bet foreign beef imports would save his farm-state Republicans. Prices barely budged. Ranchers are incensed. The GOP is begging rural voters in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas to turn out. The art of the deal, folks. https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/09/trumps-beef-gamble-isnt-paying-off/

Trump’s Beef Gamble Isn’t Paying Off

"President Donald Trump gambled that importing more beef would lower prices enough to mitigate the political hit from angry ranchers," Politico reports.

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Twenty-one dead. Eight hundred sixty-five wounded. Hegseth looked America in the eye and said the undercount reports were 'a complete lie.' The Pentagon just proved him wrong with its own press release. Fire him tonight.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago

🚨 BREAKING: The Pentagon has raised the official death toll of U.S. troops during the war with Iran to 21, with 865 wounded, weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called reporting that the military had undercounted deaths “a complete lie.”

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in his first year. Trump started a war with Iran, bought diesel from Putin, and had a meltdown when the committee didn't hand him one. Funny how that works.

Barack Obama holding his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma