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Donald Trump: “I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China.”

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Donald Trump campaigning in Juneau, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 37:17

You know, I put a tremendous tariff because China was dumping a lot of bad steel here. Bad steel, dirty, I call it dirty steel, not good steel, but I put a big tax, you know, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. No other president took in ten cents and I saved our steel industry by doing it. So I'm very proud of that. (37:17–37:21)

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Asserts that tariffs on China resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.

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