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Donald Trump: “I built [my inheritance] into many, many billions of…”

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Published | Video Starts at 39:51

My father was a Brooklyn builder, Brooklyn, Queens, and a great father, and I learned a lot from him. But I was given a fraction of that, a tiny fraction. And I built [my inheritance] into many, many billions of dollars. many, many billions of. And when people see it, they are even surprised. So we don't have to talk about that. Fracking, she's been against it for twelve years. (39:51–39:54)

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Asserts that he turned his inheritance into billions of dollars.

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