{"id":26605,"date":"2017-03-05T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26605"},"modified":"2017-03-05T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T18:43:27","slug":"trump-lied-about-keystone-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/05\/trump-lied-about-keystone-xl\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lied about Keystone XL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Fuhrer Drumphenfarten, liar extraordinaire, promised to green-light Keystone XL, his primary justification was the jobs he falsely claimed it would bring.&#160; He emphasized steel manufacturing jobs and obtained the votes of thousands steel workers with the promise that only US Steel would be used.&#160; However, Trump is now colluding with Transamerica to guarantee that the steel money goes to who he really represents.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0305KeystoneXL\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0305KeystoneXL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0305KeystoneXL.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"199\" \/>After green lighting the continuation of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/01\/24\/trump-to-advance-keystone-dakota-pipelines-with-executive-order-on-tuesday-nbc.html\" target=\"_blank\">an executive order<\/a> January 24th, President Trump declared as recently as last week that the pipeline had to use American made steel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/keystone-pipeline-wont-use-u-s-steel-despite-trump-pledge-1488590276?mg=id-wsj\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cor we\u2019re not building one.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But on Friday, Trump spokeswoman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/keystone-pipeline-us-steel-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/a> announced that the directive would apply only to new pipelines or those currently undergoing repair.<\/p>\n<p>That sharp reversal now paves the way for the use of a stockpile of steel manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evraz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evraz<\/a>, a company in which <strong>Russian billionaire<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/profiles\/roman-abramovich\/\">Roman Abramovich<\/a> owns nearly a one\/third stake&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/trump-reverses-pledge-to-mandate-us-steel-for-keystone_us_58bbae99e4b0fa65b844b451\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There it is, steel workers.&#160; Your jobs are going into the pockets of a Russian billionaire, who is a close ally of Putin and a Trump family friend.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Fuhrer Drumphenfarten, liar extraordinaire, promised to green-light Keystone XL, his primary justification was the jobs he falsely claimed it would bring.&#160; He emphasized steel manufacturing jobs and obtained the votes of thousands steel workers with the promise that only US Steel would be used.&#160; However, Trump is now colluding with Transamerica to guarantee that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/05\/trump-lied-about-keystone-xl\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}