Trump takes victory lap on taxes with rural Americans
January 7, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Connecting with rural Americans, President Donald Trump on Monday hailed his tax overhaul as a victory for family farmers and pitched his vision to expand access to broadband internet, a cornerstone of economic development in the nation's heartland.
"Those towers are going to go up and you're going to have great, great broadband," Trump told the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
"Farm country is God's country," he declared.
Trump became the first president in a quarter-century to address the federation's convention, using the trip to Nashville as...
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