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“I would at least until the US has achieved semiconductor independence.”

“I would pardon Julian Assange. I would pardon Edward Snowden. I've committed to a long list of pardons of people who have taken steps to expose corruption that we otherwise would not have seen in this country.”

“That's why I've come out and been very vocal about the fact that I would pardon Trump of each of the two indictments that have already been brought. And if the J six indictment is brought against him, I would do the same thing.”

“Gender dysphoria is what I've said is a mental health disorder.”

“Laying out the anatomy of how I will shut down the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which has been a fundamentally hostile administrative agency to the existence of nuclear power in this country.”

“I have the legal authority to do that as the US President.”

“There are cartel finance tunnels underneath that wall that vehicles literally run through today.”

“I do think Ukraine is on track to become potentially the next Vietnam or the next Iraq.”

“Because I don't think that we would have, if I was president, I don't think we would have gotten to the point of those things rolling in. Angela Merkel made some disastrous comments. Putin made a hard demand. We would have said hard no to Ukraine joining NATO,…”

“I have not seen any data to suggest that the ballot fraud or anything like that would have been sufficient to overturn the ballot count of the ballots. I have not seen any evidence to that effect.”

“The sense in which the election was stolen was the Hunter Biden laptop story and the systematic suppression of information. I think that there is no doubt. That is no doubt. I think that the evidence strongly suggests that Trump would have been elected and not…”

“I think it's a collective anaphylactic immune response. To an antigen that challenged the system. I think that's really what it is.”

“I would have made very different judgments than he did, but I think criminalizing bad judgments, especially when done so against political opponents in the midst of a presidential election, is an awful judgment. For a US president and the Department of Justice…”

“Did he do things that I think are. Reprehensible that I wouldn't have done? Yeah, I think so. I mean, as they exist. Absolutely.”

“When he tells people to peacefully make their way to the Capitol, that does not meet any Supreme Court test for what constitutes inciting violence in this country.”

“So I've said that that department that spends about eighty billion dollars of taxpayer money, I'll shut it down.”

“Actually, Iran is a nation that if you are gay, they force you to undergo gender conversion surgery.”

“Just like you can't get a tattoo before the age of 18 in most, what we say is a decision that you are likely to regret, many, in many cases at least, likely to regret later in life, we let you make that decision as an adult.”

“Unlike other Republican candidates, I will not be signing a federal abortion ban on constitutional grounds.”

“Had I had the facts that I do now as a young, thankfully healthy male, I would not have actually chosen to get vaccinated.”

“I think that Anthony Fauci betrays science by substituting the scientific method, which depends on free speech and open debate and inquiry with authority, which is actually fundamentally anti-scientific at its core.”

“There's a tiny group. It's an oligopoly of people who raise money, bundling and otherwise, who get to keep a large percentage, sometimes up to 10% of what they actually raise.”

“My general view is that companies should focus on making products and services for people who need them without apologizing for it. And yes, that's how you maximize profit for shareholders, by having a worthy mission and sticking to it. Without taking on socia…”

“I think every high school student in this country should have to pass the same civics test that an immigrant has to pass in order to become a citizen of this country.”

“I think people would be far more. Scrutinizing of the medicines they took if it didn't come with the crowding out effect of that individual level of self-responsibility and due diligence that the government wasn't doing.”

“Well, I think that, I think it's just the reality is people lose their ability to process information. People lose the ability to think independently. It's like a demonic possession that happens in this country of about, as best I can tell, about 30% of the co…”

“A 49 page indictment, read it twice, that does not once mention the Presidential Records Act, the most relevant statute that talks about what the basis is for a president to keep documents or not”

“I think that's the strongest of the scandals I've heard so far.”

“There's not only like a failed positive correlation. There is a negative correlation, an inverse correlation between how much money per student a public school spends And the actual outcomes that that school achieves for its students.”

“People don't take risks unless they're the same risks that the other pharma companies are taking, because if you take the same risk and fail, but everybody else is failing in a therapeutic category at the same time, you're safe. But if you take a risk that oth…”

“The way we actually combat, fill in your favorite blank, wokeism, climatism, covidism, fentanyl usage, anxiety, depression, loss of self-confidence, these things are symptoms of a deeper void of purpose and meaning”

“Where conservatives fall badly short is by simply being anti those things without actually offering an alternative vision of our own, and I am aiming certainly to do that in this campaign.”

“I would move the civics portion of becoming a citizen to the front end of even being granted a visa to enter this country.”

“If everybody had run and gotten their money out, I think it would have been like 94 cents on the dollar that everybody would have walked out with.”

“That's my whole strategy, right? People can tell the difference, but then I'm going to change my mind on one out of a hundred things. Okay. And that's just going to happen, right? And I just have to be open to that and eat my words. And, you know, I'm going to…”

“But when it comes to the US presidency, I think it's a unique role where what matters is actually having a vision for where we are going.”

“So I am vaccinated against COVID.”