Excerpts really won't do this document justice - I really think the whole thing is well worth reading. The EOs hit the swamp where it hurts and I believe it puts a deep cut in Pelosi's free wheeling changes to rules re impeachment (she's been acting like it it means whatever she wants it to mean) - the President jokes in the presser indirectly saying these EO's could be about him. I believe they are.
Lots of drive-by-press hit questions and it's great to hear the President's responses. Wonderful to read.
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President Trump: Today, we take bold, new action to protect Americans from out-of-control bureaucracy and stop regulators from imposing secret rules and hidden penalties on the American people.
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President Trump: All too often, guidance documents are a backdoor for regulators to effectively change the laws and vastly expand their scope and reach. Guidance has frequently been used to subject U.S. citizens and businesses to arbitrary and sometimes abusive enforcement actions. Ha! It sounds like they’re talking about me. (Laughter.) I think they’re talking about me. I might have a conflict in signing this deal.
Because of these materials and the fact that these materials are too often hidden and hard to find, many Americans learn of the rules only when federal agents come knocking on the door.
This regulatory overreach gravely undermines our constitutional system of government. Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats must not be able to operate outside of the democratic system of government — wow — imposing their own private agenda on our citizens. A permanent federal bureaucracy cannot become a fourth branch of government, unanswerable to American voters. In America, the people must always reign.
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President Trump: And I want to thank President Obama for leaving us 138 empty slots, because that’s a first. (Laughter.) That’s a first. I said, “How many do we have?” He said, “Sir, you have 138 to 142.” I said, “You’ve got to be kidding.” So I want to thank you, President Obama.
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President Trump: No American should ever face such persecution from their own government — except, perhaps, your President. (Laughter.) Don’t feel bad, Kevin. (Laughter.) They treated you better than they treat me. (Laughter.) I do believe that’s true, huh? I do believe that’s true, Meadows.
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President Trump: At the start of my presidency, I imposed a two-for-one rule on new regulations, requiring that for every new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.
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President Trump: Today’s action is just the latest step in my administration’s tireless fight to curtail job-killing, soul-crushing regulations.
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President Trump:
THE PRESIDENT: Well, let me just say that the Republican Party — and President — but the Republican Party has been treated extremely badly by the Democrats — very unfairly — because they have a tiny margin in the House. They have eviscerated the rules. They don’t give us any — any fair play. It’s the most unfair situation people have seen. No lawyers — you can’t have lawyers. You can’t speak. You can’t do anything. You virtually can’t do anything.
And then, on top of it, they have a guy named Schiff. And Nancy Pelosi knows all this because she’s just as guilty as he is. But you have a man named Schiff, where I had a perfect phone call with the President of Ukraine — like, I mean perfect. People read it, but they don’t read that. They heard Schiff’s version of it. He defrauded the American public. He gave the most horrible rendition, adding his own words.
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THE PRESIDENT: $1.2 billion. Not a lot of money. And then his son takes out $1.5 billion from China.
And, by the way, the $50,000 a month that he was getting from Ukraine, it looks like it’s $168,000, split among him and somebody else — his friend. And also there’s a payment of about $3 million to his son. His son just got thrown out of the Navy.
So.. are there any secret messages in this to be decoded?
“These pressers are fantastic - they provide us with the true, unscripted, undiluted (by MSM) thoughts of President Trump.”
I agree. The most open President in my lifetime.
I swear that guy was only known about by people like us. Over and over I find myself asking "I wonder what Trumps freeper nickname is?"
Placemark to read later.