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8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions (usatoday.com)
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Sprint is moving 5,000 offshore jobs back to the United States and OneWeb, a satellite Internet startup, is adding 3,000 more jobs in the U.S. From a report on USA Today: The jobs were made possible, Trump said, through Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, a Japanese billionaire and technology investor, who met with Trump in New York earlier this month. After that meeting, the two businessmen announced Softbank would invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 jobs. Softbank owns 80% of Sprint and this month it invested $1 billion in OneWeb, a venture that intends to offer affordable Internet access. Son called the investment a "first step" in his commitment to Trump.
Normalizing? You mean like saying the Russians didn't try to influence the election?
We have yet to have a single piece of evidence that supports that claim. In fact, we don't even have a NAME of a source that makes the claim. We DO have Assange and others associated with Wikileaks explicitly stating it was NOT the Russians, but an inside job. So who do we believe: nameless, faceless sources in the CIA (who have shown no evidence at all) or Wikileaks who have leaked true and accurate e-mails (as not a single one was disavowed by the Democrats or the Hillary campaigns)? Who stands to benefit, politically, from blaming it on Russia? The same team claiming it was Russia...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!