By PoliZette Staff | December 11, 2019
On “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News on Tuesday night, host Laura Ingraham [1] made things very clear for anyone who might believe, even for an iota, the claim by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday that the USMCA is now “infinitely better than what was initially proposed by the administration.”
President Donald Trump, as most people know, essentially had an U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement in place more than a year ago.
It’s been sitting in the lap of the House for a very long time.
This week, Pelosi and House Dems finally have taken action on it — and oddly (or not) are claiming victory for themselves.
They did this, of course, right after they announced two articles of impeachment against the president.
Related: USMCA Is ‘Big Win for Trump’ [2]
Trump has always maintained the USMCA would be “the most important trade deal [2] ever made by the USA” — and far superior, as well, to NAFTA, which he called “our country’s worst trade deal.”
Here’s how Ingraham of Fox News [1] put things in perspective during her program on Tuesday night.
She declared that Pelosi is the one who has abused her power because she “delayed aid to you — the workers of America — for more than a year,” in favor of pushing impeachment against Trump rather than the trade agreement.
“OK. I will give you a translation,” said Ingraham about USMCA and what occurred here. “I know a little bit about this deal.”
“She [Pelosi] conceded on all major aspects of the deal except a few provisions, regarding drug companies that won’t get protections that they wanted — and look, we know the president himself has wanted to get tougher on the drug companies, anyway.”
“This is a huge, huge win for America and for the president, Bob Lighthizer, and his entire team, Jared Kushner — the USMCA was a massive win. And this could have been implemented 13 months ago.”
“But beyond the USMCA — stay with me, this is an abuse of power — Pelosi is doing harm to the country right now by withholding support for infrastructure and the prescription drug bill. [That’s] the bill [that would] lower the price of prescription drugs — affecting all of us.”
Yet, said Ingraham, “her party campaigned on both of those issues. Again, she’s doing this his — abusing her power — merely for her own political benefit.”
“Do you see how ambiguous this can get? And, of course, [she wants to] deny a victory to the president.”
Watch the video of “The Ingraham Angle” below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrSzh4ySAMQ
This piece originally appeared in LifeZette [3] and is used by permission.
Read more at LifeZette.com:
USMCA: ‘A Trump Win’ and ‘A Win for the American People’ [4]
‘Every Minute of Our Time Is a Gift from God’ [5]
Defiant Trump at Pennsylvania Rally: ‘It All Started with the Russia Witch Hunt’ [6]