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Donald Trump: “We built hundreds of miles of wall, and, boy, did it work.”

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

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Donald Trump campaigning in Juneau, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 1:05:10

And not a lot of people got checked out out. Some very bad people were coming and they wouldn't get in. They couldn't get in. We built hundreds of miles of wall, and, boy, did it work. And then they could have thrown up. We had 200 miles that we were still putting up. We were 500 and some odd miles of wall. A lot of wall. (1:05:10–1:05:14)

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Asserts that hundreds of miles of border wall were built and were effective.

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