Trump said in an interview this week that he’s coming for Medicare and other “entitlements” in his second term
, “Entitlements ever [going to] be on your plate?” To which the man who said “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid” responded, “At some point they will be. We have tremendous growth. We’re going to have tremendous growth. This next year I—it’ll be toward the end of the year. The growth is going to be incredible. And at the right time, we will take a look at that.
Of the many defenses Trump and his allies have trotted out re: why he shouldn’t be impeached, one of the most ridiculous is that he didn’t suspend aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country into investigating his political rival, but because he didn’t want taxpayer money going to a corrupt nation. “We want to make sure that country is honest,” hein September, shortly after the whistle-blower’s complaint came to light. “It’s very important to talk about corruption.
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