After decades of foreign countries ransacking Pennsylvania and all of our country. They ransacked our country and stealing our jobs. I imposed historic tariffs to protect the American copper, aluminum, steel, and many, many other projects like cars. And because of that, they're all coming back. This could have been done by a president if he knew you wouldn't have a Taiwan making 100% of the chips. (24:59–25:08)
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Asserts that historic tariffs were imposed to protect American industries such as copper, aluminum, and steel.
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