In desperate move, Trump vows legally dubious $5,000 checks that will never arrive

In the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, Donald Trump seemed to realize that his party was poised to suffer significant losses. The first-term president, however, thought he could stem the tide with a new idea: He and congressional Republicans, Trump claimed, were working "around the clock" on a new, "very major" tax cut, which would exclusively benefit the middle class.