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Donald Trump: “We took out almost 5,000 hardline hardcore criminals, most…”

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

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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Lebanon

Published | Video Starts at 13:24

But we're getting bad people out of our country at levels never seen before. There's never been a time when more bad people. And you take a look just here in Washington, we got almost five. We took out almost 5,000 hardline hardcore criminals, most of whom came in during the open border periods of the previous administration. An amazing statistic. And this is something that I hate to be talking about in front of the president of Lebanon, but he's got his problems and different problems. (13:24–13:35)

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Claims that nearly 5,000 hardcore criminals were removed, mostly from the previous administration's open border period.

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