Only I can fix it · 2024 campaign · № 36
Only candidate with what it takes to smash the corrupt system
“I stand before you today as the only candidate who has what it takes to smash this corrupt system and to truly drain the swamp. And I'm the only one that they don't want to do it.”
- Said
- , North Carolina Republican Convention, Koury Convention Center, Greensboro
- Subject
- the corrupt system and the swamp
- Topic
- Ethics & conflicts
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
In the same speech he said "we are the only ones who can stop them" about the "deep state." On January 20, 2025, he signed Executive Order 14171, which reinstated his 2020 Schedule F order "with full force and effect," placing policy-influencing career employees in a category where failure to implement administration policies "is grounds for dismissal." This entry is a later restatement of the 2016 "I alone can fix it" claim about the rigged system.