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Opinion
Emmer: Donald Trump is a once in 150-year leader
“I think he's a one in 150 year leader.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 9:48 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Emmer predicts strict border enforcement will cause voluntary deportations
“If you start doing it the way you're supposed to do it, I'm going to suggest to you that a lot of them are going to leave voluntarily.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 24:53 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Opinion
Emmer: Democratic Party replaced Biden with Harris via back-room coup
“How the Democrats are able to remove Joe Biden, literally in a coup, a back room coup, and install Kamala Harris in a matter of hours or days and avoid any convention like real democracy taking place where people are debating their candidates and where they're…”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 2:58 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Opinion
Emmer: Mainstream media engaged in conspiracy to hide Biden's decline
“This wasn't a cover-up. This was a conspiracy. Everybody in this town for four years watched when he came in. He was already diminished, and watch him continue to diminish over the course of his over the course of his term. It was the mainstream media that ref…”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 3:33 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Disclosure
Emmer: House Republicans compiled list of $5T to $7T in spending cuts
“There's a list that we've sat down with that reaches somewhere between five and seven trillion. Over the next 10 years.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 10:37 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Disclosure
Emmer: Trump administration promised not to touch Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid
“We've said we're not going to touch Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid. That was the president who said that.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 15:18 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Opinion
Emmer celebrates departure of previous SEC leadership over crypto stance
“Ding dong. The witch is dead. Now we're going to be moving forward with the new SEC.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 18:06 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Emmer predicts all of Trump's cabinet nominees will be confirmed
“I think everybody's making it.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 30:00 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Opinion
Emmer: Democratic nomination process is top-down while Republican process is bottom-up
“Watching from the outside, that's a top-down process. On the Republican side, that's a bottom-up process, and, ah, Donald Trump is the best example of it.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 6:11 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Emmer predicts budget reconciliation bill could reach Trump's desk by Memorial Day
“If we're able to keep to that schedule, then you could realistically have a reconciliation bill to President Trump's desk by Memorial weekend.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 13:07 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emmer: Trump was elected on fixing the economy, sealing borders, and global peace
“Donald Trump was elected for three reasons. One to fix our economic woes. The inflation that's killed people. Get energy moving again. Seal the southern border and create peace and stability around the globe.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 14:36 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Opinion
Emmer: Central bankers are scared to death of cryptocurrency's disruption
“Central bankers are so worried. This is so disruptive and potentially destructive that they're scared to death. It's not just losing their power.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 17:09 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Assertion Partly supported
Emmer: NYT poll shows 55% support deporting all undocumented immigrants
“55% of Americans believe any illegal immigrant should be out of here.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 20:56 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emmer: 60% of House Republicans demand leadership role, 40% follow Johnson
“We probably have 40% of our members who will vote for whatever Mike Johnson says we're gonna put on the floor. But we got 60%, and this is what's been changing, I think, over the last couple of decades. It keeps getting larger. They didn't come here to follow …”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 28:13 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
Assertion Supported
Emmer: Trump won 77 million votes vs. 75 million for House Republicans
“Donald Trump has a mandate. He got seventy-seven million votes. We got a little less than seventy-five million.”
Tom Emmer Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 6:34 Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
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