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Donald Trump: “We didn't build a car plant for 44 years in this country.”

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It's building plants. Our drug industry is coming back, Our is coming back. They're leaving Canada, they're leaving Mexico, they're leaving Japan and Germany, South Korea. We're building car plants. So We didn't build a car plant for 44 years in this country. Now we're building more car plants than we ever have in history. It's all because of my favorite word, my fourth favorite, maybe my fifth, tariff. Without tariffs we wouldn't be doing that. (18:47–18:51)

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Asserts that the U.S. did not build a car plant for 44 years.

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