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Donald Trump: “We put up billions of dollars for rich companies to come and…”

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

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Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump

Published | Video Starts at 2:55:42

So they get these people to build them overseas. You do it. But let me just tell you, that chip deal is so bad, We put up billions of dollars for rich companies to come and borrow the money and build chip companies here. And they're not going to give us the good companies anyway. All you had to do is charge them tariffs. If you were to put a tariff on the chips coming in, you would have been able to. (2:55:42–2:55:49)

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Asserts that billions of dollars were provided to companies to build chip companies in the U.S.

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