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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/08/569394885/pentagon-announces-first-ever-audit-of-the-department-of-defense
The decision to audit the Pentagon was made back in 2010. Obama did try to audit it, but Congress gave the Pentagon another 7 years to get their shit together. Trump didn't do anything, except be president when that audit was scheduled (7 years earlier, mind you) to run.
See, the problem with you maga types, is you just lick up the dribble coming from trump's dirty diaper, and assume that since he insists that it is really chocolate, and it's brown like chocolate, it must be chocolate, and everyone who isn't eating the president's free chocolate must be an idiot because it's obviously free chocolate coming from the most amazing president who keeps runny chocolate in his diaper.
I don't really blame you though, in the same way I don't blame a victim of a carnival conman. The conman is the criminal doing something wrong, the marks are just too fucking naive to understand the con, and it's really fucking disappointing to watch a long line of people lose their money to the same conman, doing the same trick while openly laughing with his buddies about how stupid you all are.