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Donald Trump: “If you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you…”

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Keir Starmer and Donald Trump Discuss Humanitarian Aid, Trade Deals, and Energy in Scotland

Published | Video Starts at 59:27

At the beginning, they approve them, so they have their full approvals. But I've restricted windmills in the United States because they also kill all your birds. You know, they wipe out. You know, it's interesting, If you shoot a bald eagle in the United States, they put you in jail for five years. And yet windmills knock out hundreds of them. They don't do anything. You explain that. So it's a very expensive energy, it's a very ugly energy and we won't allow it in the United States. (59:27–59:36)

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Asserts that windmills kill hundreds of bald eagles, contrasting with legal penalties for shooting them.

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