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Donald Trump: “What I did to Russia was very tough. I was the toughest…”

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

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President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach of Ireland

Published | Video Starts at 28:35

And in fact, I'm the one that stopped Nord Stream 2, the pipeline, the biggest pipeline anywhere in the world I stopped was dead. And then Biden got in and he approved it. Nobody mentions that. What I did to Russia was very tough. I was the toughest ever. But nope, they never took anything from me. They took them from Obama and Bush and they took it from sleepy Joe Biden. With Biden, they wanted to take the whole country. (28:35–28:41)

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Asserts that Trump's actions against Russia were the toughest ever.

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