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Donald Trump: “We had 100% of chips originally, and then we slowly got…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 21:38

If we had the right person sitting in that seat, that would have never happened 20 and 30 years ago. When you look at the chip business, it would have never left our shores. We had 100% of chips originally, and then we slowly got taken down to nothing. We have the biggest chip companies, both of them, but we have the biggest in the world coming in. (21:38–21:44)

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Asserts that the U.S. originally produced all its chips domestically but lost this capacity over time.

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