And you listen to some of our stupid people and some of the very stupid people in Washington, DC. We don't want to charge tariffs. That's not. It's going to increase inflation. China paid us hundreds of billions of dollars and we had almost no inflation. This group that came in, they had the highest inflation in the history of our country. We took in billions and billions of dollars from foreign countries in the form of tariffs. (1:29:40–1:29:47)
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Asserts that China paid the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and the U.S. had almost no inflation during his administration.
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