Debate contribution: USA-NI250
Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on .
- MLA
- Mr Matthew O'Toole
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 17 February 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- USA-NI250
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5394821
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— and Benjamin Franklin, were, by definition, republicans. They believed in a democracy with citizens independent under the law. They did not believe in Donald Trump and the autocracy that he is building. Will you guarantee that public money will be spent celebrating not the corrupt Donald Trump but the historical links between this place and the United States?
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Part of an exchange
This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 3128/22-27.
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