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Donald Trump: “When he took over, it was much less. And I guess I'm…”

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Well, he's very smart. He's a person who's got high integrity. He's done a phenomenal job at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. You know, you probably have a trillion dollars in value there. When he took over, it was much less. And I guess I'm responsible for that, too, because everybody wanted me to sell it in my first term for 10% of what it's worth right now. If I would have sold it, we would have lost $900 billion. We would have lost. I mean, think of it. It's probably worth a trillion dollars. And I was offered every. (36:55–37:06)

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Asserts that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were worth much less when Bill Pulte took over.

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