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Donald Trump: “They were making from us $1 trillion a year.”

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Published | Video Starts at 11:38

You don't know whether or not China. Is going to eat. That's mathematics. China probably will eat those tariffs, but at 145, they basically can't do much business with the United States. And They were making from us $1 trillion a year. They were ripping us off, like nobody's ever ripped us off. And by the way, we have other countries that were just as bad. (11:38–11:42)

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Asserts that China was making $1 trillion annually from the U.S.

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