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>> Between the time President Trump was elected and sworn in, a Biden political appointee was on video talking about how here at the EPA they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic. <<

So some legal eagle correct me if I'm wrong, but as I currently understand US law today AND as I understand British law in 1912, it is/was not actually illegal to throw gold bars off the Titanic after it hit the iceberg but before it sank, even should one be a US-citizen time traveler while doing the throwing.

P.S. I'm certain that Dr. Dan Streetmentioner willen haven been outraged at the primitive use of verb tenses in the previous paragraph, but sorry, transtemporal grammatics is just not my field.

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Here it comes!

'Outrageous lies': Trump floats kicking millions off of Social Security

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his latest threat against Social Security on Tuesday under the guise of combating fraud, floating the possibility of stripping benefits from "millions of people" as Elon Musk's lieutenants infiltrate the agency that administers the nation's most effective anti-poverty program.

"The good thing about Social Security and what I read is if you take all of those numbers off because they're obviously fraudulent or incompetent... all of a sudden we have a very powerful Social Security with people 80 and 70 and 90 but not 200 [years old]."

"We have millions and millions of people over 100 years old" who are receiving Social Security payments, Trump continued.

The Republican president did not provide any evidence for his claim of substantial fraud in the Social Security program, which provides benefits to roughly 70 million Americans. Musk has similarly claimed, without evidence, that "tens of millions of people [are] marked in Social Security as 'ALIVE' when they are definitely dead."

Folks I worked at Social Security for 40+ years 30 of them involved with program integrity and I can tell you that TRUMP IS LYING HIS MOTHERFATHERING ASS OFF ABOUT FRAUD

https://www.alternet.org/trump-and-social-security/?utm_source=push_notifications

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