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riversedge

(69,725 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 03:15 PM Feb 2017

Caught On Video: Trump **Promised To Keep Medicare And Social Security As They ARE

We need to hold Trumps feet to the fire on this one.



Caught On Video: Trump Promised To Keep Medicare And Social Security As They ARE
By Karoli Kuns



Donald Trump separated himself out from all of the other Republicans in the field by promising not only to save Medicare and Social Security, but not to change them.

Forget the skepticism from our side for a minute. Millions of voters believed him on that. He reiterated it throughout the campaign, and even used the Affordable Care Act as a wedge with Republican voters, just as they did in 2010.

The Washington Post put together this montage of moments where Trump promised his adoring fans he would preserve the social safety net, particularly Medicare and Social Security, because it was so important to all of those people who had paid into for all these years. There wasn't any fudging on what he said. It's all there, in his words, out of his mouth.

Greg Sargent:



If Trump does go along with Congressional Republicans on this, everyone who covered this race will know full well that he will be flagrantly breaking a campaign promise — indeed, he’ll be breaking a core tenet of Trumpism, as many reporters and commentators defined it. Observers widely cited Trump’s supposed refusal to touch entitlements as evidence that he is ideologically different from Republicans such as Ryan.


Trump himself repeatedly drew that distinction, as the video above shows.....................................

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Caught On Video: Trump **Promised To Keep Medicare And Social Security As They ARE (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2017 OP
Zero chance of this, plus he will harm or kill as many of us as he can on purpose Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #1
That's one reason he makes me nervous with nukes, he is a vindictive man and unstable. BeckyDem Feb 2017 #2
If the CIA and FBI do their job and he is cornered with his treason, he will use one Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #4
I would hope they will do their job and remove him and Bannon without notice. BeckyDem Feb 2017 #5
You can just sense him thinking, "SUCKERS!!!" 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2017 #3
Yeah, right. nt raccoon Feb 2017 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. Zero chance of this, plus he will harm or kill as many of us as he can on purpose
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 03:18 PM
Feb 2017

when he wipes out the real President's legacy legislation that saved lives.

Because Obama made fun of him at a dinner, many will die for that.

And no it is not the real President's fault.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
4. If the CIA and FBI do their job and he is cornered with his treason, he will use one
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 05:39 PM
Feb 2017

to take attention off of him or to send a message.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
5. I would hope they will do their job and remove him and Bannon without notice.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 06:09 PM
Feb 2017

I pray they are watching those two closely. They certainly have the technology to do so.

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