Environmental groups call Pennsylvania facility he visited part of a ‘cancer alley’
President Donald Trump interrupted his summer vacation Tuesday to again court Rust Belt voters that helped deliver him the White House, espousing false statements and bold promises as he seeks a second term.
“The political class in Washington gutted … your factories,” Trump told workers at a new Shell-owned petrochemical plant in Beaver County, along the border with Ohio, another perennial swing state he also won in 2016. Trump also blamed other countries for American industrial decline, drawing cheers when he told the audience “they have been screwing us for years.”
The president — yet again — turned an official White House visit, this one ostensibly about energy policy, into a mini-campaign rally. He railed against Democrats’ efforts to determine whether he has violated the Constitution’s “emoluments clause” by benefiting financially through his hotels and other businesses while in office.
View the complete August 13 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.