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Donald Trump: “We've lost 13 [people] as opposed to 75,000, as opposed to…”

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Thousands and thousands of people killed. There are many, many thousands in Vietnam. And we have, sadly, we've lost in two wars, we've lost 13 people. Thirteen. That's 13 people too many. But We've lost 13 [people] as opposed to 75,000, as opposed to 50,000, as opposed to numbers that are staggering. Think of it. We're 19 years in Vietnam. We're all, every war. We're four years, eight years, nine years. Iraq was 10 years. We're on all these wars. (11:55–12:08)

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Asserts that the U.S. lost 13 people in recent conflicts compared to much higher numbers in past wars.

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