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Considering that Trump presents himself as a businessman, rather than a politician, some interesting parallels are developing in his newly adopted political party. And in fact, a couple of reactions on the political side are very much like what happens during a corporate takeover.

This morning, according to FoxNews.com, Trump is facing resistance from some senior GOP figures, including House Speaker Paul Ryan’s “2012 running mate Mitt Romney, a vocal Trump critic who plans to skip the July convention.”

On CNN Thursday, Ryan said, he's not “ready” at this point to support or endorse Trump. “He suggested he wants the billionaire businessman to do more to unify the party first, while leaving himself wiggle room to endorse Trump later on.”

“Trump swiftly fired back in a statement, saying, "I am not ready to support Speaker Ryan's agenda." 

By comparison, it’s quite common for senior corporate executives to resist new managements deriving from takeovers, mergers or acquisitions. Because in most cases their former status may face restructuring, downgrading, or even elimination entirely, And, therefore, the first reaction is ordinarily driven by personal survival instincts.  

Now, naturally, politics is a different game than the business world altogether, but potential occupational threats are consistent, regardless. Therefore, it’s perfectly natural for individuals such as Ryan, and even Romney,  to attempt to protect their “turf” as best they can for themselves. Which certainly doesn’t meant that Trump can’t find a way to work around them. The same way Obama does.   

As far as the Republican party itself goes, it continues to look like the upcoming election can’t be lost by Trump, or anyone else who might usurp him. Because the administration’s handing the presidency to them as a gift, by their continual destruction of the nation’s economy.    

Sho Chandra @bloomberg.com, reports: “Employers in April added the fewest number of workers in seven months and the U.S. jobless rate held steady as subdued economic growth prompted a more moderate rate of hiring.

“The 160,000 gain in payrolls followed a revised 208,000 rise in March, a Labor Department report showed Friday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for a 200,000 April advance. The jobless rate, projected to ease, stayed at 5 percent, while wage growth accelerated. 

“Industries that showed strong first-quarter job growth pulled back, with retailers cutting payrolls by the most in two years and construction companies adding the fewest positions since June. More tempered additions to headcounts shows hiring managers are adjusting in the wake of economic growth that has slowed for three straight quarters. 

“March was initially reported as a 215,000 increase. Revisions to prior reports subtracted a total of 19,000 jobs to payrolls in the previous two months.” 

What’s even worse for Democrats is: “The household survey showed employment fell by the most since October 2013 and the participation rate, which shows the share of working-age people in the labor force, decreased to 62.8 percent, from 63 percent.” 

And, at the same time, the underemployment rate which has always been the standard until the current administration stopped reporting it, still remains at 9.7% even though falling a hundredth of a point. This is the number that includes part-time workers who’d prefer a full-time position and people who want to work but have given up looking. 

Moving further into the dismal job picture at present, Carolyn May @breitbart.com, reports about more damaging statistics in the work place, as follows: 

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Both the foreign-born and native-born populations in the U.S. have experienced job growth since President Obama’s inauguration in January of 2009, however when considered against population growth, foreign-born people have fared better than their native-born counterparts. 

“The BLS reports that 25,460,000 foreign-born people had a job in the U.S. during the month of April, a decrease of 281,000 compared to the month of March when a record 25,741,000 foreign-born people were employed in the U.S. 

“The not-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate among the foreign born was 4.3 percent.”

Along the same lines of Democrat administration’s tendency to grow voter dependency rather than build the work force sensibly, an article in thesun.co.uk, illustrates further negative results from raising labor cots to businesses. Because, although the story entails developments in China, the technology involved will soon be here.   

“At a high-tech new KFC restaurant in Shanghai, customers can order food via a voice-activated robot named “Dumi”. 

Although automaton is sophisticated enough to handle order changes as well as substitutions, it can’t quite manage the English language yet. 

The result of ten years of research and development into artificial intelligence by Baidu – a Chinese web services company, the robot is said to appear soon in other real-world environments, although Baidu has not provided any specific details. 

“Located inside Shanghai’s National Exhibition and Convention Center, the KFC “concept store” has been designed to be completely digitalized, featuring wireless charging stations that also enable the customer to stream music, and pay for their meals via mobile payment services including Baidu Wallet. 

“China has been staffing its restaurants with robots for years, with the machines capable of everything from making ramen to serving as waiters.” 

However, if the coming technological revolution isn't enough to set back Democrat hopes for November's presidential election, here’s today's update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

“Judicial Watch today released new State Department emails (one batch of 103 pages, the second of 138 pages) that again appear to contradict statements by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department and that she did not use her clintonemail.com system until March 18, 2009. 

“Many of the documents predate March 18, 2009, go back as far as January, and were not turned over by Clinton to the State Department from her non-government server. The emails cover topics such as: her schedule and travel plans; criticisms of Clinton by Richard Gere; Afghanistan; U.S. financial aid and security concerns for several Pacific Islands; the recommendation for a health care system overhaul; and food security.” 

“Other previously unreleased emails are dated March 18, 2009, despite suggestions by Clinton that she had turned over emails with that date.  These emails refer to, among other things, her “friends at Planned Parenthood” and a call to Bill Clinton’s former National Security Adviser, the late Sandy Berger, who was convicted of illegally removing classified documents from the National Archives.” 

Additionally, there are Huma Abedin emails that include an exchange with Clinton’s former Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan, in which Abedin suggests Clinton would often complain of being “exhausted”:

From: Abedin, Huma
To: Sullivan, Jacob J.
Sent: Thursday, April 16 18:54:22 2009
Subject:
I have to go to the dinner with her [state dinner in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic]
I just got the I’m exhausted thing from her and Eugene [likely Eugene Bae, Clinton’s advance official] isn’t going to be able to tell Oscar de la Renta to shut up.

“A March 31, 2011, email from State Department official Michael Hammer to Abedin and others shows yet another non-State.gov email address of HumaMAbedin[Redacted], which differs from the known Huma@clintonemail.com and HAbedin@hillaryclinton.com.” 

All of which led Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton to say, “These emails further undermine Hillary Clinton’s statement, under penalty of perjury, suggesting she turned over all of her government emails to the State Department. How many more Hillary Clinton emails is the Obama State Department hiding?” 

For additional information, here's a link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiw7ZSt3sXMAhXLWj4KHe8iA0EQFghgMAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.judicialwatch.org%2Fpress-room%2Fpress-releases%2Fjudicial-watch-lawsuit-uncovers-more-hillary-clinton-emails-withheld-from-state-department%2F&usg=AFQjCNE93EM1MmgGqJ-bhI7nESDqKNkb4g&sig2=imP62KZ9hpdqcjh2vsQdYw

 

Leading again to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?  

  

That’s it for today folks.     

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