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1. They bent over backwards to appease him

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Feb 5, 2020, 07:57 AM

Feb 2020

“To safeguard American liberty, we have invested a record-breaking $2.2 trillion dollars in the United States military.”

This is mostly true.

If you count President Barack Obama’s budget passed for 2017, and take into account 2018 and 2019, President Trump will have spent $2.1 trillion, as he has yet to completely spend the 2020 budget. Adjusted for inflation, both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama spent more each year from 2007 through 2012, according to Breaking Defense, an industry publication.

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Fact-Checking Trump's 2020 State of the Union Address and the Democratic Response [View all] applegrove Feb 2020 OP

They bent over backwards to appease him underpants Feb 2020 #1

Adding some links mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2020 #2