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Donald Trump: “I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with…”

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

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This must have been done to protect those other countries, certainly not the which they should be interested in protecting. And that's what they're supposed to be protecting. But I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with that same country. In other words, I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country. I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo. (07:16–07:22)

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Asserts that he has the authority to terminate trade or business with a foreign country.

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