Follow The Money

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In a progression of three campaign events post debate, Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump revealed another campaign topic highlighting his populist patriotism and contrasting that with Hillary Clinton’s elitist globalism.

Angel Mom Michelle Root, whose girl Sarah Root was murdered by an illegal alien, joined Trump in front of an audience in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to paint the photo of what the world resemble if Hillary Clinton were chosen president.

“I just wanted to say thank you everybody for turning out for Mr. Trump,” she said. “Hillary called me deplorable and irredeemable. She is not a friend to women, I just want to tell you that right now. The Obama-Clinton policies released the man that killed my daughter after he showed up at the borders. Then after he killed my daughter, they released him again. Now where is he? Nobody knows. Donald Trump is the only person that cared about us when no one else could and would. If Hillary wins, how many more girls are going to die? How many more women will die at the hands of their policies? Thank you, thank you Mr. Trump.”

At the point when Trump made that big appearance, he lit into Hillary Clinton with a more grounded than at any other time line of assault concentrated on her deep corruption identified with the Clinton Money story—an account that Clinton and debate moderator Lester Holt advantageously maintained a strategic distance from on Monday night—sharpening his new key expression: “Follow The Money.”

“We are going to take on the special interests, the lobbyists, and the corrupt corporate media that have rigged the system against every single American,” Donald Trump said in front of an audience in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  

He continued:

I’ve been reading stories over the last couple of days that are so inaccurate and so dishonest, I’ve never seen anything like it in my life and I’m willing to take it on because—and I didn’t need it, believe me I didn’t need it. I have a great company, I built this great company and somebody said ‘you know he could be at a point where he’s enjoying the fruits of his labor’ and here I am working harder than ever before.

I’m like a lot of people in the different rooms and different stadiums where 18 years ago their wages and real wages were higher than they are today. They had one job, now they have two jobs and they’re working harder—much harder—and they’re making much less money. That’s what’s happened in our country and the only thing I can say is I’m also working harder.

After noting he’s spent tens of millions of dollars of his own money of his campaign, he says it’s because “we’re not going to be controlled.”

“We’re not going to be controlled,” Trump reiterated. “We’re not going to be controlled. We’re going to take our country back and it’s going to be a beautiful thing. This is a movement. We have a movement going on like I think they’ve never seen before.”

From that point, Trump noticed that his vision for the nation is an administration that serves the general population—not one that serves the legislators like the way the Clintons have utilized government to their very own advantage.

“We are going to create a new government that serves you, your family, and your country,” Trump said. “We’re going to lower taxes by a lot, less regulation, more affordable childcare, fair trade deals, secure borders, thriving family farms—millions and millions of new jobs. We are going to end the Clinton Corruption—total corruption—“

Trump continued by noting it’s “horrible, horrible what’s happened to this country” and that he, unlike Clinton will “restore dignity and honesty to government service.”

“Hillary Clinton is an insider fighting for her donors and her insiders,” Trump said, but “mostly fighting for herself. I am an outsider fighting for you. We’re fighting together. We’re fighting together.”

From there, he launched his new campaign theme: “Everything you need to know about Hillary Clinton can be understood with this simple phrase: Follow The Money.”

“Follow The Money,” a reference back to investigators who look for motive in a certain wrongdoing by someone, is what several Trump aides say is going to be a huge new focus of the campaign.

Trump, later in the speech, “summed up” his “economic agenda” in “three beautiful words”— “jobs, jobs, jobs”—and then explained his positive change policy agenda:

We will cut your taxes, and let you deduct the cost of childcare, it’s about time.

We will reduce regulations and create millions of new jobs for our country. We will unleash American energy adding trillions in new wealth for our workers. We are going to shrink our trade deficit and protect American manufacturing which is being led to slaughter—being led to slaughter. Florida has lost one in five manufacturing jobs since NAFTA. That’s the economic legacy of Bill and Hillary Clinton, folks. 

The tax, trade, energy and regulatory reforms I propose will create at least 25 million new jobs over the next 10 years—and that will happen. Let me tell what else we’re going to do: We’re going to repeal and replace the horrible Obamacare. Clinton on the other hand wants to expand the Obamacare disaster and put the government completely in charge of America’s healthcare. 

Two other major reforms I’m proposing are school choice and ending Common Core. We’re going to end Common Core. I want every disadvantaged child in this country, including every poor Hispanic child in this country and every poor African American child in this country to be able to attend the public, private, magnet, or religious school of their choice. It’s the great civil rights issue of our time. 

On Wednesday, Trump picked up the theme again, telling an enthusiastic midday crowd “Everything you need to know about Hillary Clinton can be understood by this simple phrase: follow the money.”