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Donald Trump: “The Congo, almost its entire prison population was allowed…”

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

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Many of those people were criminals. Many of them were drug dealers and murderers and people that were let out of mental institutions, prison populations. In some countries, The Congo, almost its entire prison population was allowed to come into the United States of America. The Congo, many of the countries in South America, they emptied their prisons out into our country. This was under Biden, and nobody can tell me that's a good thing. (09:30–09:39)

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