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Donald Trump: “The pandemic was not since 1917, where 100 million people…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:49

Everybody knows what I'm going to do. Cut taxes very substantially and create a great economy like I did before. We had the greatest economy. We got hit with a pandemic. And The pandemic was not since 1917, where 100 million people died, has there been anything like it. We did a phenomenal job with the pandemic. We handed them over a country where the economy and where the stock market was higher than it was before the pandemic came in. (06:49–06:56)

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Asserts that the COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe since the 1917 pandemic, which killed 100 million people.

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