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Donald Trump: “We wouldn't have had one steel mill in the United States if…”

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Trump's Speech on Revitalizing the American Coal Industry

Published | Video Starts at 28:34

I'm pretty sure that that's true. We have. Instead of having no steel business, I put them on originally in my first term. We would have had. We wouldn't have had one steel mill in the United States if I didn't do that [impose tariffs]. And now we upped it. And we. Not only are we taking in a lot of money, but we're protecting our workers, our steel workers. We're protecting our steel industry. (28:34–28:38)

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Asserts that without the tariffs, the U.S. would have no steel mills.

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