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Donald Trump: “I put 200% tariffs on.”

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

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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel

Published | Video Starts at 00:44

No more trade. To both of them. Got their attention, but to both of them, I said, we're going to cut you off. No more trade. Then I put 200% tariffs on. The next day they called. We'd look 35 years of fighting and they. They sucked. Do I get credit for it? No. They gave them. I did eight of them. (00:44–00:47)

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Asserts that Trump imposed 200% tariffs as part of his strategy to settle the war.

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