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I don't know what he knew at that time but he should have tried to help stop the problem as soon as he did know. I've had to assume that his own security would have known by the end of the speech and whisked him of back to the WH for his own safety - he was still the President then. That said, the general security arrangements for that day seemed totally inadequate, especially if what Cheyney said is true and it was known in advance by FBI etc. this invasion of the Capitol was all pre-planned.
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I read these stories years ago but business failures don't all mean being "taken to the cleaners". Some of the best in business take quite a few hits but also make at least as many successful recoveries, before consolidating their wealth. If Trump is such a dunce how come he's ended up with billions, great real estate assets and that stunning wife?
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Your links refer to individuals that have pleaded guilty to two different charges but neither of these is Trump. I think everyone knows that there was a radical minority making trouble on Jan 6th, some of it violent and much of it criminal. But is Trump himself guilty of sedition? As he was asking people to protest "patriotically and peacefully", then the answer is no.
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Fuel is up due to (1) US domestic production (down) policy, (2) consumption normalizing post Covid and now (3) the war in Europe. Oil was way up long before the US Fed put in this mammoth 0.5% rate rise! Rate rises are generally applied to fight inflation, which is at a 40 year high (and still rising),in the US but the Fed is way behind this sharp curve. It looks like an extended period stagflation will affect the US, with similar in Europe and maybe a bit less hitting much of the rest of the world.
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- if GDP level in value is above pre-Covid level, It's not due to the fact that growth rates are obviously high after a crisis Why not? That is the main reason. It's called a recovery. - if the number of jobs is higher than pre-covid, It's not because the occupation rate is lower than pre-Covid The number is still shy of pre covid by about a million: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/03/economy/may-jobs-report-final/index.html#:~:text=US employers added 390%2C000 jobs in May%2C representing a robust,2020%2C before the pandemic hit. Inflation, attempts to raise rates to combat same, will cause a lot more harm than just denting growth and the origins of this happened way before the war started.
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No shortage. Just not registered.
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Your last para - disagree - the average yearly level of debt increase by Trump pre-Covid was about 1T due to corporate tax cuts, trade disputes, military spending (not wars) and Brexit. Any growth from 2008 has been encouraged and enhanced by Fed QE policy, which was notably briefly tightened up in 2017/8, after Trump got in, but reversed by late 2018, as the stock market had started to fall badly.