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Donald Trump: “We've lost 13 people here, and that's a lot. 13 people too…”

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

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Full interview: Trump says Iran 'is not an endless war' as conflict reaches 100 days

Published | Video Starts at 03:39

We took over the whole country, we lost nobody. We have a great relationship, by the way, with Venezuela. Venezuela is doing very well, but we lost nobody. We've lost 13 people here, and that's a lot. 13 people too many. But if you look at Vietnam, where hundreds of thousands of people were killed, if you look at any one of the last seven or eight wars where many, many people were killed, we lost 13. (03:39–03:43)

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Asserts that 13 American personnel have been lost in the conflict with Iran.

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