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Donald Trump: “If you go back 15 years ago, we had like nobody. It was 1 in…”

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You got through. But, you know, we have one stat that I quote, the autism stat, and you hear different numbers, but it's thousands. They say between 10 and 20,000. So If you go back 15 years ago, we had like nobody. It was 1 in 20,000. Now we have 1 in 34. Is that right? 34. So 34 or 36 kids have autism. And if you go back, I guess, 18 years, whenever that was done, it was 1 in 20,000. (18:07–18:20)

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Asserts that autism rates have increased from 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 34 over 15 years.

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