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Highest inflation rate ever - Not even close to true by a long shot. You need to understand history and stop believing the lying words that spew out of Trump ‘s mouth.
21% + in less than 4 years is good??
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21% + in less than 4 years is good??
MakoMatt
Angler
I never said it was good. I was only disputing the lie you MAGA buddy posted of it being the “highest inflation rate ever”. It was not.
Biden did inherit from Trump one of the worst economies in U.S. history. Poor handling of the COVID19 crisis was a driving force of that. Trump’s mishandling of it contributed tremendously to his economic downfall.
We were lucky however that Trump did not drive the country in bankruptcy as he did to so many of his own companies, and business associates.
The country is essentially bankrupt, with the $38 trillion dollar debt.
I know, it's Trump's fault.
MakoMatt
Angler
Not entirely Trump’s fault, there are others that are responsible too. That said, Trump contributed more to the national debt than any other President in U.S. history.
Clinton was the last U.S. President to have a balanced budget. He actually created a budget surplus.
Trump has done the exact opposite to our national debt.
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MakoMatt
Angler
Yes, the worldwide pandemic had nothing to do with that.
Luckily, an effective vaccine was developed under his watch.
MakoMatt
Angler
How Trump flip-flopped on the Epstein File saga
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Compare it against GDP which is a more accurate depiction. Note on the graph Trump has the steepest incline, spending going almost straight up like a rocket. And note how Biden gets his inherited spending under control and it begins to recede in his final years.
Federal Debt to GDP by President
Both charts are correct. This one fits your TDS ideology.
Based on your original rant, JPD debunked it.
MakoMatt
Angler
Monday morning quarter????? Better than playing doctor every afternoon press conference making up all bullchit lies about COVID being nothing to be concerned about, testing is a waste of time, we have have plenty of test kits, taking some drug that no real medical organization would recommend, etc, etc, etc. our buffoon in chief, Donald J Trump
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Reagan-appointed judge torches colleagues in Texas map fight, calls ruling ‘fiction,’ ‘judicial activism’
Circuit Court Judge Jerry Smith wrote a fiery 104-page dissent attacking colleague Judge Jeffrey Brown's decision to block Texas redistricting maps.
www.foxnews.com
A federal judge in Texas responded to the court’s decision to scrap the state’s redrawn map with a jaw-dropping dissent on Wednesday in which he lobbed dozens of insults at his colleague and repeatedly invoked Democratic mega-donor George Soros.
"This is the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed," Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan-appointee on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, wrote of the 2-1 decision to toss out the map.
Never doubted the farce of this decision.
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When facts and reality are hard to come by, name calling becomes the "go to".
Avenger
Well-Known Angler
The economy was great, right up to the ginned-up crisis.
Vaccine available before he left office.... What a clod.
Thanks for that, at least.
After it had overflown the entire country. At that point the Chinese would have shot it down.
Duh.
Do they get unlimited protection???
A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Mr. Trump only to be charged with new crimes.
The man, Eliyahu Weinstein, was pardoned by Mr. Trump in 2021 and was re-indicted by the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey three years later. He was accused of swindling investors who thought their money was being used to buy surgical masks, baby formula and first-aid kits bound for Ukraine, and a jury convicted him in April of several crimes, including conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.
“Mr. Weinstein received a gift only a few have received in the United States, a presidential commutation,” Judge Michael Shipp of Federal District Court in New Jersey said during the sentencing hearing. “Just months after he was released from prison and while on supervised release, he squandered this coveted gift by immediately defrauding investors of their hard-earned money.”
Mr. Weinstein’s victims included a single mother of three who was compelled to sell her home after failing to receive the returns she had expected. Calling Mr. Weinstein a “predator,” Judge Shipp concluded that, as the ringleader of the scheme, he deserved “the harshest punishment.”
A lawyer for Mr. Weinstein did not immediately respond to a request for comment. One of Mr. Weinstein’s co-conspirators, Aryeh Bromberg, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Both were also ordered to pay $44 million in restitution to their victims.
Mr. Weinstein, who referred to himself in a recording played at the trial as “the Ponzi guy,” is one of a number of those Mr. Trump has pardoned who have gone on to face new criminal charges — often shortly after receiving presidential relief.
Some of those pardoned for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol have quickly drawn new attention from law enforcement. The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said in June that at least 10 of the more than 1,500 who were pardoned had been rearrested and charged, and the number has only grown since then.
Earlier this month, a man who was pardoned after having participated in the Jan. 6 attack was charged with sex crimes against two children. Another man whose original sentence Mr. Trump commuted in 2021 was recently sentenced to 27 months in prison after convictions on physical and sexual assault, among other crimes.
Mr. Trump announced he had commuted Mr. Weinstein’s 24-year sentence on the last day of his first term in the White House.
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey pursued the new charges against Mr. Weinstein aggressively, winning a conviction on 15 counts after a six-week trial.
But by then the state’s top federal prosecutor had changed, making the victory inherently tricky for the office’s new boss, Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer for Mr. Trump who played a public role in his re-election campaign.
Ms. Habba initially met with Mr. Weinstein’s defense team without the prosecutors on the case present, irking her staff and raising questions about how she would handle the case, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. But her prosecutors ultimately pushed for harsh punishment for Mr. Weinstein.
“The government is asking for a very significant sentence in this case,” one of the prosecutors, Carolyn Silane, said last week in court before requesting that Mr. Weinstein, who is 51, be sentenced to 50 years in prison. She acknowledged that it was an “incredibly unusual ask” before noting that, taking both crimes into account, Mr. Weinstein had over the course of two decades stolen a quarter of a billion dollars.
Ms. Silane argued that Mr. Weinstein had shown no pity for victims of his schemes. When one confronted him, she said, he responded with a joke, saying, “What do your wife and I have in common?”
“I don’t know,” the victim said.
We both screwed you, Mr. Weinstein said, using a harsher word than screwed.
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
A New Jersey man convicted of defrauding investors of roughly a quarter-billion dollars is among a growing number of people granted clemency only to to be charged with new crimes.A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Mr. Trump only to be charged with new crimes.
The man, Eliyahu Weinstein, was pardoned by Mr. Trump in 2021 and was re-indicted by the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey three years later. He was accused of swindling investors who thought their money was being used to buy surgical masks, baby formula and first-aid kits bound for Ukraine, and a jury convicted him in April of several crimes, including conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.
“Mr. Weinstein received a gift only a few have received in the United States, a presidential commutation,” Judge Michael Shipp of Federal District Court in New Jersey said during the sentencing hearing. “Just months after he was released from prison and while on supervised release, he squandered this coveted gift by immediately defrauding investors of their hard-earned money.”
Mr. Weinstein’s victims included a single mother of three who was compelled to sell her home after failing to receive the returns she had expected. Calling Mr. Weinstein a “predator,” Judge Shipp concluded that, as the ringleader of the scheme, he deserved “the harshest punishment.”
A lawyer for Mr. Weinstein did not immediately respond to a request for comment. One of Mr. Weinstein’s co-conspirators, Aryeh Bromberg, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Both were also ordered to pay $44 million in restitution to their victims.
Mr. Weinstein, who referred to himself in a recording played at the trial as “the Ponzi guy,” is one of a number of those Mr. Trump has pardoned who have gone on to face new criminal charges — often shortly after receiving presidential relief.
Some of those pardoned for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol have quickly drawn new attention from law enforcement. The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said in June that at least 10 of the more than 1,500 who were pardoned had been rearrested and charged, and the number has only grown since then.
Earlier this month, a man who was pardoned after having participated in the Jan. 6 attack was charged with sex crimes against two children. Another man whose original sentence Mr. Trump commuted in 2021 was recently sentenced to 27 months in prison after convictions on physical and sexual assault, among other crimes.
Mr. Trump announced he had commuted Mr. Weinstein’s 24-year sentence on the last day of his first term in the White House.
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey pursued the new charges against Mr. Weinstein aggressively, winning a conviction on 15 counts after a six-week trial.
But by then the state’s top federal prosecutor had changed, making the victory inherently tricky for the office’s new boss, Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer for Mr. Trump who played a public role in his re-election campaign.
Ms. Habba initially met with Mr. Weinstein’s defense team without the prosecutors on the case present, irking her staff and raising questions about how she would handle the case, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. But her prosecutors ultimately pushed for harsh punishment for Mr. Weinstein.
“The government is asking for a very significant sentence in this case,” one of the prosecutors, Carolyn Silane, said last week in court before requesting that Mr. Weinstein, who is 51, be sentenced to 50 years in prison. She acknowledged that it was an “incredibly unusual ask” before noting that, taking both crimes into account, Mr. Weinstein had over the course of two decades stolen a quarter of a billion dollars.
Ms. Silane argued that Mr. Weinstein had shown no pity for victims of his schemes. When one confronted him, she said, he responded with a joke, saying, “What do your wife and I have in common?”
“I don’t know,” the victim said.
We both screwed you, Mr. Weinstein said, using a harsher word than screwed.
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