But we're going to revive our economy. We're going to use a system of very fair, very reasonable tariffs, as I said, so powerful. We never used them. I used them. China paid us hundreds of billions of dollars. Hundreds of billions of dollars, and no other president's gotten 10 cents from China. China had a free ride, but so did many other countries. European Union is taking advantage of us. (41:46–41:49)
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Asserts that China paid the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars.
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