China paid us hundreds of billions of dollars and we had a almost no inflation. This group that came in, they had the highest inflation in the history of our country. We took in billions and billions of dollars from foreign countries in the form of tariffs. And I hadn't even gotten started yet. We'll be a rich nation again. We'll be able to do what we want to do. We have to do the tariffs. (1:29:52–1:29:58)
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Asserts that the U.S. collected billions of dollars from foreign countries through tariffs.
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