Donald Trump Jr.: Hoosiers deserve better than Donnelly

Donald Trump, Jr. | Guest commentary

Editor's Note: A previous version of this guest commentary, as submitted by the writer, incorrectly identified Charles Schumer as Senate Majority Leader during the 2013-2014 Congressional session. The Majority Leader during that session was Harry Reid.

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Joe Donnelly claims he’s a moderate willing to work with President Trump. But that’s not even close to the truth.

Donnelly’s self-proclaimed moderation is nothing more than a Trojan Horse strategy designed to trick the good people of Indiana into re-electing him. But unfortunately for him and his boss Chuck Schumer, it’s not going to work.

The Democrat party of today is not your grandfather’s party anymore. What was once a reasonable voice of the American working man has become the party of America’s most unhinged, radical and violent elements. Think Occupy Wall Street on steroids.

Democrats want to abolish ICE and open our borders to the worst criminal elements from abroad, no matter the threat they pose to innocent Americans. They’re dead set on ending the Second Amendment as know it and want to tax and regulate the country into oblivion.

Even if Donnelly was a true, honest moderate, his party has turned so far to the left that his weak voice would be quickly drowned out. But of course he’s not a true, honest moderate in the first place and his voting record proves it.

A recent Donnelly campaign ad touted the number of times the Senator voted along with President Trump’s agenda. But in the 2013-2014 session — back when President Obama was in office and the freshly-elected Donnelly didn’t have to worry about appealing to the good people of Indiana — he voted with Schumer well over 90 percent of the time.

This includes Senator Donnelly’s support for the Democrats’ far-left positions on immigration. He voted for the disastrous Gang of Eight amnesty bill in 2013 and also supported Chuck Schumer’s more recent efforts to defend sanctuary cities.

Donnelly’s political director, Michael Lindburg, spoke at a July 15 rally hosted by Deporting Love, a left-wing group that compares immigration enforcement to the Holocaust and the Trump administration to Nazis.

And, no, Donnelly did not distance himself from these attacks by his political aide.

These positions are completely outside the mainstream of Indiana and put American lives in danger. As my father noted last week during an event honoring the brave men and women at ICE and the Border Patrol, sanctuary jurisdictions unleashed nearly 8,000 criminal illegal aliens into our communities in the last year alone.

Senator Donnelly also voted against President Trump’s historic tax cuts, which have revitalized the American economy, creating tens of thousands of jobs in Indiana and resulting in increased wages and bonuses for employees at companies across the state.

While Donnelly’s campaign might insist he’s a moderate, his voting record suggests the exact opposite. Donnelly has voted with radical New York liberal Chuck Schumer 76 percent of the time this Congress, and 77 percent of the time during the last Congress. That’s hardly the voting record of a “moderate.”

It’s obvious that Joe Donnelly can’t be trusted to support my father’s agenda that continues to bring prosperity to the Hoosier state. But Mike Braun can.

An outsider businessman much like my dad, Braun knows what it takes to keep America great and make Indiana even greater. Braun supports President Trump’s efforts to drain the swamp and put American workers first.

Unlike Donnelly, Braun wants to protect Hoosiers from the scourge of illegal alien crime, and will also defend Americans’ Second Amendment rights — something Democrat Donnelly has refused to do despite the overwhelming presence of gun owners, and sportsmen and women across Indiana.

Like Coach Lou Holtz recently said regarding his endorsement of Mike Braun, “So many times, politicians will say one thing to get elected, then they go to Washington and they act completely differently.” Mike Braun is not one of those politicians.

President Trump needs people in Washington who care more about our country than appeasing people like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. It’s time for the people of Indiana to see Joe Donnelly as the fake moderate that he is, and sign his retirement papers this fall.

Donald Trump Jr. is the Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization.