• Former President Trump traveled to the corn belt yesterday and told Iowans that he was the most “pro-farmer president” in history.
• He ran down the billions of dollars his trade deals have brought to Iowa farmers, claiming he was the “most pro-farmer president” in history. There’s much Trump can take credit for, like cutting a myriad regulations that have long hamstrung U.S. agriculture producers. And, per usual, Trump took credit for doing more than he did. He said he “eliminated the unfair estate tax” (or federal death tax) that has been an albatross around the necks of America’s family farmers. He did sign the bill that raised the threshold for the onerous tax, but it did not eliminate it.

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