# Post ts_113168433548620881

- Post ID: `ts_113168433548620881`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2024-09-20T06:20:56.055Z (UTC)
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## Post text

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## What the media says

**Video transcript** (1:57), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Everyone has heard President Trump's signature phrase "Drain the swamp in Washington, D.C." His instinct is spot on. The problem is that in Washington it's not just about a few corrupt individuals, it's a whole crooked system, it's the federal agencies, it's the lobbyists, it's the think tanks and research organizations, it's the university and the academic groups and the media, and it's the corporations that have captured these agencies and turned them into sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate. I've spent 40 years suing almost all of these agencies in many of the industries, and I know the names in many of these agencies of the bad actors who need to be moved out. I understand the perverse incentives that put agency capture on steroids. I know how this system is supposed to work to protect the public interest, and how it actually works to protect the mercantile interest of the regulated industries that have captured it. And I know how to fix it. When you sue an agency, you get a PhD in corporate capture and how to unravel it. And that's exactly what I'm going to do with Donald Trump's backing. Let me tell you what we're going to do. We're going to appoint honest officials who don't have conflicts of interest. We're going to listen to whistleblowers and act on their revelations. We're going to slam shut the revolving door that sends industry executives and lobbyists in and out of government. We're going to fire anyone who betrays the public trust or lies to the public. And we're going to prohibit federal agencies from using their powers to harass political opponents. That's what it means to drain the swamp. One of my priorities in Washington will be to make sure that President Trump can follow through on his promise and return us to a government of the people and to make America healthy again.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/168/433/392/797/268/original/92309ef865857641.mp4

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- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, September 20).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_113168433548620881
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "" Truth Social, 20 Sep. 2024. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113168433548620881. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "," Truth Social, September 20, 2024, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_113168433548620881.

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