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Donald Trump: “All they had to do is say if you sell your product back into…”

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

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President Trump Participates in a Small Business Summit

Published | Video Starts at 1:03:50

And we used to be a manufacturing capital. We were the manufacturing capital of the world. And then it got taken away. It went to the ships, went to Taiwan. And All they had to do is say if you sell your product back into the country, there's going to be 100% tariff. and nobody would have left. And you know, I made a investment, Intel Chipmaker, the biggest in the world. And then it got taken away because of bad politics, actually, because the politicians, the presidents, no president protected that industry. (1:03:50–1:03:56)

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Asserts that imposing a 100% tariff could have prevented manufacturing from leaving the U.S.

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