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@gsfouroone5045 Unlawfully retaining classified documents and mishandling of defense documents. Basically everything in the Florida case he openly admits to doing, he just claims that he's allowed to break the law (spoilers, he is not).
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@WhyHandleYouTube Wow, that was a laundry lists of ways to let other people know that you're not worth listening to.
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@HeritageSoftail Yes, but much less than the billions spent by the previous administration for much less results. It's the job of the US President to spend billions of dollars achieving things that benefit the US people, this is what we elected Joe Biden to do, and it's what he has been doing.
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How would that fix the budget? You fix the budget by reversing the Trump tax cuts for billionaires.
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@MadDragon76 We already have one, he just happens to be on the Democratic side. People on the right don't like him though.
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@randomdudeoti I know, but if you actually looked into it, then you would know. That's what education is for.
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Who told you that? That's never even once been true. Why do you believe someone would tell you such an obvious lie? What would they stand to gain by keeping you angry and ignorant?
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The debt ceiling does not involve new spending, it means paying the bill for the things we've already bought and used. If they want to reduce spending, that would happen later, and would affect future bills. Think of it like going to a restaurant, reading the menu, eating your meal, getting the check, and going "the prices here are too expensive, I'm not going to pay my bill unless you lower the prices." Then try going back to that same restaurant later and see what happens.
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Doesn't work. That plan would crater the economy. You don't like paying $3.50 for gas? Try $25.
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Cmore Butts No, he's right, Mostly. It's actually 24%. The rest is owned by US taxpayers and pension funds.
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He didn't say anything like that. It was all just nonsense about things that don't actually apply to the real economy.
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You don't negotiate with terrorists. The debate/compromise can begin after the debt ceiling has been raised.
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@gsfouroone5045 The things you are saying seem to be a list compiled by people to deceive you, but the important thing that you need to understand is that none of it is actually true. You need to look into all those claims you're making and find for yourself how each one differs from the actual reality of the situation. You owe it to yourself to not allow those who told you those lies to control your mind through ignorance.
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You do understand that "peaceful protest" does absolutely nothing to defend Trump after his other statements, right?
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Maybe, but the thing is, they do have to maintain a home back in their home district and in DC, which isn't cheap. We don't want to make it so that only millionaires can run for congress. Even if we did cut their salaries, that would be like 0.0000000000000001% of the budget.
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Well, they are in the White House and Senate, just not in the House.
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Cmore Butts You can look up how much of the US national debt is foreign owned, it's public information. It's not some secret that takes actual work to ferret out.
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@jesusrivera2970 There's no reason to believe that Hunter had access to those documents, or that those documents were serious in nature, like the many many more documents at Mar-a-Lago have been shown to be. More importantly, the moment that Biden had reason to believe he might have classified documents, he invited the FBI in to do a search and find them, whereas Trump instead spend months lying to investigators and attempting to hide and retain his classified documents, even after having been served a subpoena for them, which is basically the opposite of what Biden did. I don't know what your point here is. Are you making some sort of "don't worry about the plank in my eye, worry about the spec in yours" argument or something?
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@amazinggrace602 NARA says that neither Obama nor Clinton kept documents. They turned all their documents over to NARA, and then legally checked out what documents they wanted access to. That is nothing like what Trump did, and if you have been told to believe otherwise, then ask yourself what they stood to gain by controlling your mind like that.
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@krisjones4051 You have been lied to. The President cannot "constitutionally do whatever he wants with documents." There are several laws on the books that specifically make clear what a President is NOT allowed to do with documents, including several of the things Trump did while in office. Further, once Trump left office, the limitations on what he could do with documents became even more strict, and everything he's been charged with is things that he did with documents AFTER leaving office. You have been lied to by people who wanted to control your mind through ignorance.
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@WhyHandleYouTube Yes, Hunter Biden lied a lot. Good thing nobody ever voted for him.
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@gsfouroone5045 I didn't know who told you that. Obama turns ALL his documents over to NARA immediately, as was his legal obligation, and completely unlike Trump. Whether those documents become public or not is a completely unrelated matter, but typically Presidential documents are not made public until decades after they leave office. For example, NARA had all of Nixon's documents since he left office, but only a decade or two ago were they made open to the public. I am seriously curious as to who told you these lies.
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@gsfouroone5045 Citing links is tricky on Youtube, because most links are auto-blocked. You also provided no sources for your claims, so it would be hypocritical to criticize others for not doing so. There is no source to your claim that Obama withheld documents from NARA, and NARA is on record that this is not something that happened. And yes, Trump could label documents as being personal, that does NOT mean he gets to keep them. He STILL has to turn them over to NARA, and if he wants access to them, he needs to request them back. Nothing about that gives him the right to just keep the documents in his possession. Btw, the case you cited did not involve presidential records, they involved tapes owned by a third party about the president at the time, which is not subject to the Presidential Records Act. In this case, for example, the Trump recordings by Bob Woodward are not subject to the Presidential Records Act, because they belong to Woodward. This would not in any way be a relevant defense for the charges Trump is under.
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@LordRykard9376 So does Trump, that's part of what got him into this mess. But of course even Trump admitted that some of the documents in his posession were still classified even after he left office and lost whatever powers he may have had to declassify it in the past, and most of the laws he's been charged with would apply whether the documents are classified or not, so it's not like "how does classification work?" is crucial to the outcome of this case.
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@LordRykard9376 Look into it. Google "did Obama retain documents." See what turns up. I'm seeing stories from several credible sources pointing out that NARA is on record that they had no issues with him.
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@WhyHandleYouTube Yes, but Hunter is an established liar that nobody voted for. There is no evidence that his father was in any way involved.
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Yeah, not that "free speech" is actually any sort of defense on these charges. As other lawyers have pointed out, you have a free speech right, but not if in doing so you are committing a crime, for example "using free speech" to pull a con, or "using free speech" to plan a bank robbery. The "speech" Trump has been charged with is him planning to commit crimes, such as to defraud the public, or to subvert an election. He's not being punished for speech, he's being punished for those crimes.
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@RichRocketMan Not to mention that he raised the debt ceiling several times already without ANY preconditions. . . while Trump was President.
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They are being held accountable. That is what their salary is for, to pay them for doing their job.
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@enidankavon New spending does add to the debt, but that has nothing to do with the debt limit, which is based on covering existing debt obligations. Again, if you want to cut spending, that's part of the BUDGET process, not the debt limit process. Also, your analogy is flawed in the sense that the US is more than capable of taking on WAY more debt than we currently have. I mean, Japan's debt to GDP ratio is TWICE what ours is, and they're fine. We could probably have 3-4 times as much debt as we do without causing any real trouble, UNLESS we refuse to raise the debt limit and default on our existing obligations, in which case, the US and global economies would both crater. America's economy is reliant on everyone trusting the US to always pay our debts, to be STABLE. If we lose that, there's no coming back, and we go the way of Greece.
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The Republicans have no plans other than attacking Democrats.
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@HeritageSoftail If you mean Trump, you'd be right, but he's not my president. If you mean Biden, no, he's making wise investments that are already paying off for America's future, as we elected him to do.
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This is why you elect Democrats. They do not play around with the faith and credit of the American people. If he wants to cut spending, do so without taking the US economy hostage.
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@randomdudeoti The poorest don't pay taxes. Tax cuts would not benefit them. The only problems with social security and other welfare programs are that Republicans started stealing money from the funding mechanisms decades ago. Put that money back in and they'll be fine. Direct welfare programs are the most efficient way to support those on lower income.
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@bcrouch2626 It was sort of meant to be part time, but there was a lot less to do back then. Nowadays they can't even get through all their jobs within a full calendar year. It would be impossible to have congress meet less often than they currently do and still function as a nation, at least, not without removing Republicans from the process.
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The current Republican party is defined by hypocrisy.
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And MAGA simps are just dumb enough to do it.
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@godhand6510 That's what the Faux News has indoctrinated you to believe. It doesn't happen to be true, of course, but it is a funny little fantasy.
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Well, too many people watch Faux News. If they were better informed, they wouldn't be so surprised when reality happens.
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He promised anything it would take to get votes. Anything. It's really not working out.
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@oldiesaregoldies3511 To be fair, the Republicans do want to wipe out half of all life. They tell me so all the time. Quite openly.
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@scottrickhoff4184 I was talking about your proposal to not raise the debt ceiling. That would destroy the economy for generations. Universities has nothing to do with anything, Federal spending on universities makes up an insignificant amount of the budget. You could cut all of it and it would make zero difference to the national debt, but it would greatly harm a lot of students trying to get an education.
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