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Donald Trump: “They were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.”

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

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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Emir of the State of Qatar

Published | Video Starts at 22:25

And the second one was what we did with respect to the nuclear dust, as I call it, right? We blew it up. The mountain, collapsed on top. It was. You can't get to it. And They were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it on Israel, and I hate to say, and probably the rest of the Middle east, because they had … (22:25–22:29)

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Asserts that Iran was two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

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