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Donald Trump: “In my first term, we had the best economy that we've ever had.”

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This is the golden age of America. We're doing numbers that nobody ever thought were possible. We're doing the biggest numbers economically that we've ever done in. Of our country. You know, In my first term, we had the best economy that we've ever had. It was interrupted by Covid at the end, but we had the best numbers. Even with that, we left with a stock market that was higher than it was at the beginning. (17:41–17:44)

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Asserts that the U.S. economy was at its best during Trump's first term.

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