OBAMA ADMIN: “During the Obama-Biden administration, there was tremendous division. There was hatred. You look at Ferguson, you look at, or you go to very— Many places, look at Oakland. Look what happened in Oakland. Look what happened in Baltimore. Look what happened— Frankly, it was more violent than what I’m even seeing now.” -Donald […]
Tag: Debates 2020
9/29/2020
RACISM: “The fact is that there is racial insensitivity. People have to be made aware of what other people feel like, what insults them, what is demeaning to them. It’s important people know. Many people don’t want to hurt other people’s feelings, but it makes a big difference. It makes a gigantic difference in the […]
9/29/2020
RACISM: [Chris Wallace: “Why did you decide to do that, to end racial sensitivity training?”] “I ended it because it’s racist. I ended it because a lot of people were complaining that they were asked to do things that were absolutely insane. That it a radical revolution that was taking place in our military, in […]
9/29/2020
RACISM/POLICE/PROTESTS: “There’s systemic injustice in this country, in education and work and in law enforcement and the way in which it’s enforced. But look, the vast majority of police officers are good, decent, honorable men and women. They risk their lives every day to take care of us, but there are some bad apples. And […]
9/29/2020
RACISM: [Chris Wallace: “why should voters trust you rather than your opponent to deal with the race issues facing this country over the next four years?”] “It’s about equity and equality. It’s about decency. It’s about the constitution. And we have never walked away from trying to require equity for everyone, equality for the whole […]
9/29/2020
DEBATES: Chris Wallace: “I think that the country would be better served, if we allowed both people to speak with fewer interruptions. I’m appealing to you, sir, to do that.” Donald Trump: “Well, and him [Joe Biden] too.” Wallace: “Well, frankly, you’ve been doing more interrupting than he has.” Trump: “Well, that’s all right, but […]
9/29/2020
ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN: “We inherited the worst recession, short of a depression in American history. I was asked to bring it back. We were able to have an economic recovery that created the jobs you’re talking about. We handed him [Donald Trump] a booming economy, he blew it… And so you take a look at what […]
9/29/2020
ECONOMY/OBAMA ADMIN: “They [Obama administration] had the slowest economic recovery since 1929. It was the slowest recovery. Also, they took over something that was down here. All you had to do is turn on the lights and you pick up a lot. But they had the slowest economic recovery since 1929, and let me tell […]
9/29/2020
DEBATES: Joe Biden: “You’re the worst president America has ever had. Come on.” Donald Trump: “Hey, Joe, let me just tell you, Joe. In 47 months, I’ve done more than you’ve done in 47 years, Joe. We’ve done things that you never even thought of doing.” -Joe Biden and Donald Trump via CNBC Television, “President […]
9/29/2020
TAXES/TRUMP TAXES: “Look, the tax code that put him [Donald Trump] in a position that he pays less tax than on the money a school teacher makes is because of him… He says he’s smart because he can take advantage of the tax code. And he does take advantage of the tax code. That’s why […]
9/29/2020
TRUMP TAXES: [Chris Wallace: “Is it true that you paid $750 in federal income taxes each of those two years?”] “I paid millions of dollars in taxes, millions of dollars of income tax… I paid $38 million one year, I paid $27 million one year… You’ll see it as soon as it’s finished, you’ll see […]
9/29/2020
ECONOMY/NEW YORK/SPORTS: “No, people want their schools open. They don’t want to be shut down. They don’t want their state shut down. They want their restaurants. I look at New York. It’s so sad what’s happening in New York. It’s almost like a ghost town, and I’m not sure it can ever recover what they’ve […]
9/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “[T]he people who have lost their jobs are those people who have been on the front lines. Those people who have been saving our lives, those people who have been out there dying [from coronavirus]. People who’ve been putting themselves in the way to make sure that we could all try to make it. […]
9/29/2020
ECONOMY/TAXES/TRUMP TAXES: “Billionaires have made another $300 billion because of his profligate tax proposal, and he only focused on the market. But you folks at home, you folks living in Scranton and Claymont and all the small towns and working class towns in America, how well are you doing? This guy paid a total of […]
9/29/2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS: “A lot of people, between drugs and alcohol and depression, when you start shutting it down [due to coronavirus], you take a look at what’s happening at some of your Democrat-run states where they have these tough shutdowns. And I’m telling you it’s because they don’t want to open it. One of them […]
9/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS: [Chris Wallace: “President Trump, you have begun to increasingly question the effectiveness of masks as a [coronavirus] disease preventer. And in fact, recently you have cited the issue of waiters touching their masks and touching plates. Are you questioning the efficacy of masks?”] “No, I think masks are okay. You have to understand, if […]
9/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “So here’s the deal. This man [Donald Trump] is talking about a [coronavirus] vaccine. Every serious company is talking about maybe having a vaccine done by the end of the year, but the distribution of that vaccine will not occur until sometime beginning of the middle of next year to get it out, if […]
9/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: Donald Trump: “Well, we’re going to deliver it [coronavirus vaccine] right away. We have the military all set up. Logistically, they’re all set up. We have our military that delivers soldiers and they can do 200,000 a day. They’re going to be delivering—” Joe Biden: “This is the same man who told you—” Trump: […]
9/29/2020
COVID-19: “How many of you got up this morning and had an empty chair at the kitchen table because someone died of COVID? How many of you are in a situation where you lost your mom or dad and you couldn’t even speak to them, you had a nurse holding a phone up so you […]
9/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many of your Democrat Governors said, ‘President Trump did a phenomenal job [on coronavirus].’… We got the gowns. We got the masks. We made the ventilators. You wouldn’t have made ventilators. And now we’re weeks away from a vaccine. We’re doing therapeutics already. Fewer people are dying when they get sick. Far […]
9/29/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “If we would’ve listened to you [Joe Biden], the country would have been left wide open, millions of people would have died [from coronavirus], not 200,000. And one person is too much. It’s China’s fault. It should have never happened. They stopped it from going in, but it was China’s fault. And, by […]
9/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “200,000 dead [from coronavirus]. As you said, over seven million infected in the United States. We, in fact, have 4% of the world’s population, 20% of the deaths. 40,000 people a day are contracting COVID. In addition to that, about between 750 and 1000 people a day are dying. When he [Donald […]
9/29/2020
DEBATES/SUPREME COURT: [Chris Wallace: “So my question to you is, you have refused in the past to talk about it, are you willing to tell the American tonight whether or not you will support either ending the filibuster or packing the court?”] Joe Biden: “Whatever position I take on that, that’ll become the issue. The […]
9/29/2020
HEALTHCARE: “He [Donald Trump] sends out wishful thinking. He has Executive Orders that have no power. He hasn’t lowered drug costs for anybody. He’s been promising a healthcare plan since he got elected. He has none, like almost everything else he talks about. He does not have a plan. He doesn’t have a plan. And […]
9/29/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE: “I’m cutting drug prices. I’m going with Favored Nations, which no President has the courage to do because you’re going against big pharma. Drug prices will be coming down 80 or 90%. You could have done it during your 47 year period in government, but you didn’t do it. Nobody’s done it. So we’re […]
9/29/2020
OBAMACARE (ACA): [Chris Wallace: “Over the last four years, you have promised to repeal and replace Obamacare, but you have never in these four years come up with a plan, a comprehensive plan, to replace Obamacare.”] “Yes, I have. Of course, I have. The individual mandate… Excuse me. I got rid of the individual mandate, […]
9/29/2020
DEBATES/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE (ACA): Joe Biden: “Number one, he knows what I proposed. What I proposed is that we expand Obamacare and we increase it.” […] Donald Trump: “That’s not what you’ve said and it’s not what your party is saying.” Biden: “That is simply a lie.” Trump: “Your party doesn’t say it. Your party wants to […]
9/29/2020
OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Now, what’s at stake here is the President’s made it clear, he wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. He’s been running on that, he ran on that and he’s been governing on that. He’s in the Supreme Court right now trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, […]
9/29/2020
NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “The American people have a right to have a say in who the Supreme Court nominee is and that say occurs when they vote for United States Senators and when they vote for the President of United States. They’re not going to get that chance now because we’re in the middle of an […]
9/29/2020
DEMS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “We won the election. Elections have consequences. We have the Senate, we have the White House, and we have a phenomenal [Supreme Court] nominee respected by all… We have plenty of time. Even if we did it after the election itself. I have a lot of time after the election, as you know… […]