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Donald Trump: “A year and a half ago, two years ago, we couldn't get…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 10:34

And you know what he does. And he is. He's turned out to be an incredible inspiration to the men and women in our military again. A year and a half ago, two years ago, we couldn't get anybody to go into the military. We couldn't get them for the police, for the military, for anything, for firefighters, anything with a uniform on, Governor. Right. And now we're setting records in every. (10:34–10:39)

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Asserts that military recruitment was very low a year and a half to two years ago.

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