… where the Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule and the S and P hit 7,000 where it wasn't supposed to do it for many years, were tariffs. I used these tariffs, took in hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country both economically and on a national security basis. Everything was working well. Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. They were ripping us so badly. You all know that. (32:21–32:32)
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Asserts that tariffs brought in hundreds of billions of dollars for economic and national security deals.
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