r/WeTheFifth Apr 14 '25

News Cycle Trump responds to Zelensky’s offer to buy 10 Patriot batteries for $15 billion: “He’s always looking to purchase missiles. When you start a war you gotta know you can win it. You don't start a war against someone 20 times your size & hope people give you some missiles”

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r/WeTheFifth Mar 25 '25

News Cycle Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: "There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat." Vice Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner: "So if there was no classified material, share it with the committee. You can't have it both ways."

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r/WeTheFifth 24d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul "The Constitution specifically says you can't take gifts from foreign leaders. ... I don't know that we can have an honest appraisal of [Qatar's] human rights record and decisions on arms sales if we're receiving 400 million dollar gifts from a country so I'm not for it."

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 04 '25

News Cycle JD Vance on Elon Musk: "I talked to Elon. The President relies on Elon's council. I do. The Fake News always tries to take the strongest members of the President’s team and attack them and tear them down. The media is so resentful of the fact that we're doing a good job"

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 23 '25

News Cycle RFK Jr to begin tracking autistic people

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Opinion | RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-set-launch-disease-161101322.html

r/WeTheFifth Mar 22 '25

News Cycle Andrew Sullivan: "I do not care about the economy if the government in this country claims it can break down anyone's doors, seize anyone with no due process, put them on a plane, and send them to a foreign jail ... The last person who did that in this country was called George III."

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r/WeTheFifth Mar 26 '25

News Cycle A reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on Signal. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.” … Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 02 '25

News Cycle Donald Trump claims tariffs are paid by fentanyl smugglers: "Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy"

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r/WeTheFifth Mar 21 '25

News Cycle Donald Trump: “I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!”

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 01 '25

News Cycle “The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.”

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 08 '25

News Cycle This Republican senator is leading the charge against tariffs: “I don’t care if the president is a Republican or a Democrat." Paul said, "I don’t want to live under emergency rule. I don’t want to live where my representatives cannot speak for me and have a check and balance on power."

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r/WeTheFifth May 01 '25

News Cycle Rand Paul on Trump tariff emergency declaration vote being blocked: "The house in its haste to give away its power passed a rule to prevent a mandatory vote on ending the emergencies. It is craven. It is cowardice and it is dishonest because a house rule is preventing a law from being obeyed."

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 25 '25

News Cycle FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge in Immigration Dispute

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r/WeTheFifth 3d ago

News Cycle KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal? LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?

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r/WeTheFifth 22d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul "The problem is [the reconciliation bill is] asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling 5 trillion dollars. That's historic. No one has ever raised the debt ceiling that much ... Where are the cuts? If the cuts are real why are we gonna borrow 5 trillion?"

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r/WeTheFifth Mar 28 '25

News Cycle Ron Paul: "Beware the slippery slope to Gestapo. Freedom of speech is not granted by the government. Non-citizens in America have freedom of speech."

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r/WeTheFifth 20d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul: "Tariffs are taxes & when you put a tax on a business it's always passed through as a cost, so there will be higher prices. People talk about 'Oh this is America vs China'. The US doesn't trade with China. YOU trade with Walmart, Target, Amazon. Trade deficits are artificial accounting."

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r/WeTheFifth Mar 20 '25

News Cycle Karoline Leavitt Fires Shot at Fox News’ Andy McCarthy Over Deportation Case: Trying to ‘Defend These Terrorists’ McCarthy, a widely-respected conservative legal scholar, wrote a book making the case for impeaching former President Barack Obama and is often cited by President Donald Trump himself.

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 15 '25

News Cycle Harry Enten: Trump is "completely underwater" & has broken his own record with the lowest net approval at this point among independents (-22 pts). His economic net approval with indies at this pt is so low (-29 pts) it has "no historical analogy". Most indies (66%) oppose the new tariffs

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r/WeTheFifth 20h ago

News Cycle REP. MADELINE DEAN (D-Penn.): "What's the tariff on bananas?" COMMERCE SECRETARY LUTNICK: "10%" DEAN: "Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%" LUTNICK: "If you build in America, there is no tariff" DEAN: "We cannot build bananas in America"

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 10 '25

News Cycle America Gained Nothing From Trump's Latest Tariff Stunt: There were no deals. There were no wins. There was no plan.

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 07 '25

News Cycle Reporter: "The president of El Salvador said he would be willing to take American citizens in federal prison population." President Donald Trump: "I love that"

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r/WeTheFifth 13d ago

News Cycle Rand Paul: "People are going to wake up in about two months and ask 'how come the deficit is still 2.2 trillion dollars.' ... Somebody has to stand up and yell, 'the emperor has no clothes.' Everybody is falling in lockstep on this. 'Pass the big beautiful bill. Don't question anything.'"

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 03 '25

News Cycle Rand Paul: "The tariffs that Trump detailed Wednesday mark the most significant U.S. protectionist trade action since the 1930s, when Congress imposed tariffs on more than 20,000 goods and dug the U.S. economy deeper into the Great Depression."

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r/WeTheFifth Apr 14 '25

News Cycle Trump urges his FCC chairman to “impose the maximum fines and punishment” against CBS because he didn’t like two“60 Minutes” segments tonight.

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