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Donald Trump: “That's why we have $38 trillion in debt.”

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If that ability were taken away from us by a liberal court acting on essentially foreign nations asking to get help from the United States government when they've been doing this to us for 40 years, they've. That's why we have $38 trillion in debt. We won't have it for long if they let us. If they allow us to do what everybody knows we should be able to do. Yeah, please. (32:57–33:01)

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