Well, they left, they took our plants. They sold cars in here without tariffs. They sold cars. We didn't charge them anything. They destroyed our auto industry. We lost 50%, 54% of our auto industry to others. We used to, if you go back into the 30s and 40s, we had 100% of the automobile business. Then it started getting chopped away. (28:35–28:39)
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Asserts that the U.S. lost 50-54% of its auto industry to foreign competition.
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