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Donald Trump: “If you look at China, I took in hundreds of billions of…”

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President Trump's Liberation Day Speech on Economic Independence and Reciprocal Tariffs

Published | Video Starts at 36:53

The only thing that changed were the countries. But nothing really changes. But, you know, it's why it's such an honor. It's such an honor to be finally able to do this. If you look at China, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in my term. Hundreds of billions. They never paid 10 cents to any other president, and yet they paid hundreds of billions. So much so that Biden couldn't do anything. (36:53–36:59)

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Asserts that during his term, the U.S. collected hundreds of billions of dollars from China.

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