Trump Outlines ‘9 Steps’ He Will Use to ‘Drain the Swamp’

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, September 7, 2024 4:09 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump, speaking at a rally at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee, Wisconsin, lashed out at Vice President Kamala Harris as he outlined his “nine steps” to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C.

“Our country is a failed nation right now,” Trump told supporters. “It’s a laughing stock around the world. Over the last four years, our country has exposed the disease and corruption of the Washington swamp like never before.”

First, Trump said he will end what he calls the weaponization of government and the abuse of law enforcement against political opponents.

“Under Comrade Kamala (Harris), Christians and pro-life activists are rotting in prison for the crime of praying in public,” Trump said at his rally, which aired live on Newsmax and was simulcast on the online streaming platform Newsmax2. “We will completely overhaul Kamala’s corrupt Department of Justice and turn the DOJ back into the finest law enforcement agency in the world.”

He added that under his presidency, the Justice Department will focus on “rooting out bloodthirsty cartels, transnational gangs and radical Islamic terrorists” rather than prosecuting Republicans like himself.

Second, Trump said he will restore freedom of speech in America.

“Fake news is a menace to this country,” Trump said. “Some of them are good, but most of them are absolutely horrible people. They are the police force of evil. They are very dishonest. If you are a politician and you happen to be a Republican, they write the exact opposite of what the facts are.”

He added that as president, he “will sign an executive order prohibiting any federal employee from conspiring to abridge free speech — and we will fire any federal employee who engaged in domestic censorship under the Harris regime.”

The third step will be to “drive out the warmongers” and “carry out a much-needed cleanup of the military-industrial complex,” Trump said.

“We have these people who want to go to war all the time,” Trump said. “You know why? Missiles cost $2 million apiece. … I haven’t had any wars. Remember Crooked Hillary (Clinton) used to say, ‘Look at him; he’s going to start wars.’ No, my personality has stopped wars.”

The fourth step, he said, will be to limit the power of federal officials.

He added that he will create a Government Efficiency Commission, at the suggestion of tech billionaire Elon Musk, to conduct a financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.

As a fifth step, Trump promised that his administration will “drain the government education swamp and stop misusing your tax dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth.”

This means that the federal Ministry of Education will be abolished and authority over schools will return to the states.

In a sixth step, Trump said his administration will not tolerate equality policies “that punish Americans based on race or gender.”

“America will return to the merit principle, which was just approved by the Supreme Court. And hard work will get you there.”

In a seventh step, Trump said his administration will work with former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to tackle corruption at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, “and other institutions dominated by corporate power and China.”

“We will assemble a panel of top experts to investigate what is driving the decades-long rise in chronic health conditions and childhood diseases, including autoimmune diseases, autism, obesity, infertility and more,” he added.

The eighth step will be to ask Congress to enact far-reaching reforms that prevent foreign influence, “as we saw with the Biden crime family.”

And in a ninth and final step, Trump said he will support amending the 25th Amendment “to make clear that if a Vice President lies or participates in a conspiracy to cover up the incompetence of the President of the United States, it is grounds for impeachment and removal from office,” Trump said.

He said this would be because of what happened last summer, when Biden withdrew from the race after questions arose about his capabilities following the first presidential debate of the season.

“If he hadn’t gone to that debate, he would still be in it,” Trump said.

Source: Newmax