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The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it
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JonKoch
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Yet Cheeto pardoned 12 congressmen, 11 of them were GOP I believe
Across both his terms, President Trump has granted clemency to over 70 allies, donors, and others convicted in fraud cases. His pardons have been heavily targeted toward white-collar crimes, including bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, with many recipients being business executives or politicians.
I BET YOU BELIEVE HE WANTS TO DRAIN THE SWAMP RIGHT?
Trump pardons wipe nearly $2 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare and tax fraud, and more
In cases involving public programs, government contracts, tax fraud, and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, the victim is the American taxpayer. Trump’s clemency actions shift the costs of fraud and corruption away from convicted criminals and onto everyone else.
Trump Vowed to Crack Down on Fraudsters, but He’s Pardoned Dozens
Salomon Melgen was an immigrant who came to the United States and wound up committing fraud, ripping off the American taxpayers by $42 million. “Melgen devised a scheme to enrich himself by defrauding Medicare to the tune of tens of millions of dollars,” an F.B.I. official said when Mr. Melgen was sentenced to 17 years in jail during President Trump’s first term.
....But Mr. Melgen is actually prominent in another presidential lineup, the gallery of criminals convicted of fraud who have been granted clemency by Mr. Trump.
....In his second term, Mr. Trump’s pace of pardoning those convicted of fraud has increased. In the first year of his second term, he handed out nearly three dozen pardons and commutations for people accused of fraud.
Mr. Trump is unabashed about using the government to reward friends and supporters and punish foes. Still, his handling of fraud cases stands out. Not only are there striking similarities between some of the crimes that were prosecuted and those that were pardoned, but the president also has excused some of those who have stolen the most.
I just asked the apparently unanswerable question, which was, "Has the democrat war on fossil fuels hurt poor Americans buying gas, heating oil, or electricity pay their bills?"
What is this world coming to? We are told Biden's auto pen pardoned all sorts of serious and not so serious criminals, including potential criminals the left wanted to immunize from future prosecution for future crimes; leftists DA are turning illegal immigrant murderers and violent criminals free to murder or hurt Americans again; and now Trump has pardoned some people with whom he had some first hand or fourth hand connection.Yet Cheeto pardoned 12 congressmen, 11 of them were GOP I believe
Across both his terms, President Trump has granted clemency to over 70 allies, donors, and others convicted in fraud cases. His pardons have been heavily targeted toward white-collar crimes, including bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, with many recipients being business executives or politicians.
I BET YOU BELIEVE HE WANTS TO DRAIN THE SWAMP RIGHT?
Trump pardons wipe nearly $2 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare and tax fraud, and more
In cases involving public programs, government contracts, tax fraud, and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, the victim is the American taxpayer. Trump’s clemency actions shift the costs of fraud and corruption away from convicted criminals and onto everyone else.
Trump Vowed to Crack Down on Fraudsters, but He’s Pardoned Dozens
Salomon Melgen was an immigrant who came to the United States and wound up committing fraud, ripping off the American taxpayers by $42 million. “Melgen devised a scheme to enrich himself by defrauding Medicare to the tune of tens of millions of dollars,” an F.B.I. official said when Mr. Melgen was sentenced to 17 years in jail during President Trump’s first term.
....But Mr. Melgen is actually prominent in another presidential lineup, the gallery of criminals convicted of fraud who have been granted clemency by Mr. Trump.
....In his second term, Mr. Trump’s pace of pardoning those convicted of fraud has increased. In the first year of his second term, he handed out nearly three dozen pardons and commutations for people accused of fraud.
Mr. Trump is unabashed about using the government to reward friends and supporters and punish foes. Still, his handling of fraud cases stands out. Not only are there striking similarities between some of the crimes that were prosecuted and those that were pardoned, but the president also has excused some of those who have stolen the most.
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Democrats have accused Trump of rape and accused me of raping my sister, both of which prove the democrats are stupid liars because Trump has never been found guilty of rape and I don't even have a sister.
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I see. The jury did not find Trump guilty of rape, but the weaponized TDS democrat judge interpreted that to mean the jury did find Trump guilty of rape. I can see where that kind of reasoning is coming from.
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A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood.
“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote.
He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”
The former requires forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape. He cited definitions offered by the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department, which in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration “with any body part or object.”
Democrats erroneously believe Christians are the worst terrorist murderers and rapists in the US. That is because democrats are either deluded or just plainly stupid.
Of course an unhinged leftist TDS judge will believe a jury's non verdict of rape is the same thing as a verdict of rape.
World debt is at an historic high of $324 trillion. Who do we owe this too, someone or ourselves? The numbers don't add up but the world keeps paying this debt but they don't understand the figures. A bizarre predicament.
Hopeless shit Labour in the UK are robbing everyone with eye watering extra tax, but the deficit has increased. But that's how useless they are.
Hopeless shit Labour in the UK are robbing everyone with eye watering extra tax, but the deficit has increased. But that's how useless they are.
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Have you thought about getting more income (revenues) Dave asks? Or will you keep taking time off work to vacation?
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Thanks Trump!Somehow, I'm not surprised..it seems that spending other people's money has been our President's go-to since childhood.
It's clear that Trump, like all the others before him, only give lip service to reducing the debt.
The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it | Fortune
Budget experts agree on one thing. The debt is on an "unsustainable" trajectory.fortune.com
The United States national debt crossed $39 trillion for the first time Tuesday, arriving at the grim milestone less than five months after it first hit $38 trillion in late October—a pace of accumulation that budget watchdogs and academic economists are now calling, with unusual unanimity, “unsustainable.”
The milestone, confirmed in Wednesday’s Daily Treasury Statement, lands amid a politically charged moment: it comes roughly two weeks before the ten-year anniversary of President Trump’s 2016 campaign promise to eliminate the national debt within eight years. Instead, the gross national debt has roughly doubled since Trump first took office—it was $19.9 trillion in January 2017.
“Our moral duty to the taxpayer requires us to make our Government leaner and more accountable,” President Trump wrote in March 2017, as he issued an executive order directing OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to submit a comprehensive plan to reorganize Executive Branch departments and agencies in order to keep his promise to put in place common sense reforms to eliminate waste so that the Government better serves all Americans. “We’re going to do more with less,” Trump said at the time.
“As America soars past $39 trillion in debt, we must recognize this alarming rate of growth and the significant financial burden we are putting on the next generation,” Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, told Fortune in a statement. “Borrowing trillion after trillion at this rapid pace with no plan in place is the definition of unsustainable.”
“Our moral duty to the taxpayer requires us to make our Government leaner and more accountable,” President Trump wrote in March 2017
Another Trump claim revealed to be a big, fat LIE.
The only kids going hungry are the ones whose moms are on crack and not taking care of them.
Democrats have no better candidates or policies which is why all you hear from them is non-stop Trump be bad!
Divine Wind
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Agreed. Which is why, like me, 70% of American voters choose not to be Democrats.
OTOH, 70% also don't want to be Republicans. What does that tell you? LOL
Both the Democrats and Republicans are better at taking care of their respective parties than they are at doing their duty and honoring their oaths of office. This partially explains why 45% of American voters are Independents.
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Somehow, I'm not surprised..it seems that spending other people's money has been our President's go-to since childhood.
It's clear that Trump, like all the others before him, only give lip service to reducing the debt.
The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it | Fortune
Budget experts agree on one thing. The debt is on an "unsustainable" trajectory.
The United States national debt crossed $39 trillion for the first time Tuesday, arriving at the grim milestone less than five months after it first hit $38 trillion in late October—a pace of accumulation that budget watchdogs and academic economists are now calling, with unusual unanimity, “unsustainable.”
The milestone, confirmed in Wednesday’s Daily Treasury Statement, lands amid a politically charged moment: it comes roughly two weeks before the ten-year anniversary of President Trump’s 2016 campaign promise to eliminate the national debt within eight years. Instead, the gross national debt has roughly doubled since Trump first took office—it was $19.9 trillion in January 2017.
“Our moral duty to the taxpayer requires us to make our Government leaner and more accountable,” President Trump wrote in March 2017, as he issued an executive order directing OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to submit a comprehensive plan to reorganize Executive Branch departments and agencies in order to keep his promise to put in place common sense reforms to eliminate waste so that the Government better serves all Americans. “We’re going to do more with less,” Trump said at the time.
“As America soars past $39 trillion in debt, we must recognize this alarming rate of growth and the significant financial burden we are putting on the next generation,” Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, told Fortune in a statement. “Borrowing trillion after trillion at this rapid pace with no plan in place is the definition of unsustainable.”
Divine Wind
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Our leaders just keep taking us deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole as they get richer and richer.
While the Democrats aren't faultless, the MAGA Republicans are clearly leading the way to Hell.
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