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Donald Trump: “We took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 37:29

Yeah, because in my first term, I was fighting lunatics like you who were trying to do things incorrectly and inappropriately to a president that was duly elected. And we did do certain tariffs in the first term. If you look at China, China, We took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. But when Covid came, the last thing I was going to do is tell France and Italy and Spain and a couple of other countries that we're going to hit you with tariffs. (37:29–37:33)

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Asserts that the U.S. collected hundreds of billions in tariffs from China.

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