The Baffling Bribe: Trump's Dividend of Distraction President Donald Trump has resurfaced a plan to reward voters with $5,000 payments, courtesy of his own benevolence.
In reality, this proposal is less a gift and more a calculated attempt to buy votes and distract from the administration's faltering record.
Trump's argument is that Democrats are blocking his plan because they want their own candidates to lose. However, if that were true, it would make little sense for them to block the payments.