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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

I don’t want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense, too.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it. Now, we’re going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it, because I have an obligation to protect this country and that includes Baltimore.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

The problem I have with Colorado — one of the big problems — they do mail-in voting. They went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections and we can’t have that.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of [Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United…

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

We’re going to straighten out New York, and maybe we’re going to have to straighten it out from Washington.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

You have a lot of crooked things going on in New York.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

I don’t think you can win unless you have one-on-one, because somehow he’s gotten a little bit of a lead.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 5, 2025

I don’t like to see a communist become mayor, I will tell you that.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

If you're on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you're an immediate threat to the United States.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

I know nothing about it — I just saw it this morning that they did a raid.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

He’s not a smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic guy.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 4, 2025

The notorious prison—built on a former slave plantation and still infamous for farm labor and abuse allegations—was chosen to encourage self-deportation.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

What they’re trying to do with the Epstein hoax is get people to talk about that.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

I don't think he has a choice. He's a man of common sense, he's a good man.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

He's a good man. He got off the reservation, incorrectly, and that's okay, because, you know, it's just one of those things.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

This is definitely a high-IQ group, and I'm very proud of them.

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Linda McMahon
@lindamcmahon· Sep 4, 2025

Any grant applications that come into the department that utilize AI will be more strongly considered for their grants

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

No, I don’t like to see a communist become mayor. I won’t tell you that. And I don’t think you can win, unless you have one-on-one.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Sep 4, 2025

The U.S. and Ecuador are aligned as key partners on ending illegal immigration and combatting transnational crime and terrorism.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Sep 4, 2025

My prediction is they will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion — they will send it back to the states.

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