[Slyfox]

Trump suggested that he would eliminate the national debt over an 8 year time period by selling off federal assets at the rate of $2.25 trillion per year.

Don't those "federal assets" belong to the American taxpayer?

[Stentor]

Don't those "federal assets" belong to the American taxpayer?

So does the debt. We're always being reminded that this is a republic. Our representatives "bought" it for us.

[expat_panama]

Trump suggested that he would eliminate the national debt over an 8 year time period by selling off federal assets at the rate of $2.25 trillion per year.

  Nobody really knows what Trump did or did not "suggest" because he was smart enough to prevent recordings and all we got is hearsay.  Here's the original hearsay:

Trump quoted in an interview w/ Woodward (Transcript: Donald Trump interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa) Apr. 2:  "We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt...   .... could do it fairly quickly...   ... over a period of eight years."

--and it immediately gets walked back:

Trump quoted in an interview w/ Morrongiello (Wash Examnr) Apr. 22  Q: You have said you plan to pay off the country’s debt in 10 years...."  A:  “No, I didn’t say 10 years,”  [pay off an unspecified] “percentage”

Don't those "federal assets" belong to the American taxpayer?

--and there's lots of 'em, we got maybe a total $128T in federal land, structures, bonds, oil rights.  We may not want to tho.  Sure selling the original copy of the U.S. Constitution on eBay would bring in bux but then again...

[woodenickel]

“Don’t those “federal assets” belong to the American taxpayer?”

Yes, ans so does the debt!!