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Donald Trump: “150,000 Americans joined the unemployment rolls last month.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Donald Trump campaigning, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 14:35

With almost 100,000 manufacturing jobs killed since the beginning of the year. 100. That's a lot. 150,000. These are all the numbers coming out of the so called government. Great government. We have 150,000Americans 150,000 Americans joined the unemployment rolls last month. This is like a depression and there's nothing, I mean, no event. I think they're trying to blame it on the hurricane. No, that was, you know, a little. (14:35–14:43)

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Asserts that 150,000 Americans became unemployed in the last month.

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