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Donald Trump: “If you take a look at autism, go back 25 years, autism was…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 55:16

Look, so possibly when you look at some of the problems, when you look at what's going on with disease and sickness in our country, something's wrong. Are you talking about autism? Well, If you take a look at autism, go back 25 years, autism was almost non-existent. It was, you know, one out of 100,000. And now it's close to one out of 100. Well, I mean, what, what's happening if they can find it now. I did something the other night that was a little unusual at Mar a Lago. (55:16–55:28)

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Asserts that autism rates have increased from 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 100 over 25 years.

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