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ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Paul: The Fed paid $188B in interest to banks not to lend
“We paid a hundred and eighty eight billion, the Fed did, in interest to banks not to loan money. Most of it went to five banks in New York, the big five, but 40% of it went to foreign banks.”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 32:40 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Rand Paul: Fauci privately admitted a 50-50 chance COVID originated from a lab
“In private, Anthony Fauci is saying, I'm fifty-fifty, whether this came from the lab or animals.”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 50:25 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Paul: An NIH foundation holds $1.2 trillion in Big Pharma vaccine revenue
“There's an NIH foundation that has 1.2 trillion dollars in it given from Big Pharma for their share of the COVID vaccine.”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 51:53 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Paul: The US middle and lower classes shrank because people got richer
“The middle class, 50 years ago, about 54% of the people were in the middle class, and now it's 51. Everybody's like, aha, the middle class is shrinking. Well, the lower class was like, 37%. It's now 33%. It's like, where did they go? They're being hollowed out…”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 12:09 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Paul: The new spending bill raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion
“Increase the debt ceiling by five trillion dollars. This is not only extraordinary, but unheard of. No conservative in their right mind would ever vote for this under Biden.”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 20:53 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Rand Paul: U.S. annual deficit is currently 6% of GDP
“Well, it's six percent now, so we'd have to be cut in half”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 24:41 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
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