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When Donald Trump ran for president for the first time, he campaigned on reducing the national debt, referring to himself at the time as “the king of debt” and telling voters he would pay off the nation’s multi-trillion-dollar debt in 8 years.

“I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me,” Trump said during an interview with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell in the lead up to the 2016 election. “I’ve made a fortune by using debt, and if things don’t work out I renegotiate the debt. I mean, that’s a smart thing, not a stupid thing.”

“We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt,” Trump said a few months prior on the campaign trail during an interview with The Washington Post. When asked how long it would take, Trump re

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