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Donald Trump: “On the very first day I came down the escalator in 2015, I…”

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Trump holds news conference on Iran war | full video

Published | Video Starts at 08:37

When I first heard it, I said, no, somebody made a mistake. There was no mistake. UAE had over a thousand missiles shot at. It knocked them almost all down. On the very first day I came down the escalator in 2015, I said, I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and all I'm doing is keeping my promise. Think of that. That was in 2015. I said it. It was a threat then and a much bigger threat now, but no longer a threat. Not for a long time anyway. (08:37–08:49)

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Asserts that he promised to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons in 2015 and is fulfilling that promise.

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