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Eric Trump: “We allowed all our manufacturing to go overseas.”

Featuring: Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization | National

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Eric Trump Discusses Revitalizing American Manufacturing and Navigating Cancel Culture on American Thought Leaders

Published | Video Starts at 00:13

The amount of campaign speeches I gave in shutdown, broken factories, factories that had chain link fences around them, that had no lights, the electricity had been turned off. They had the most beautiful buildings you've ever seen were lifeless. And We allowed all our manufacturing to go overseas. And it's not okay. China's a, what, $24 trillion economy. We're at, you know, almost 30. You know, the difference to China is they've got five times the amount of people. (00:13–00:16)

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Asserts that U.S. manufacturing has been outsourced overseas.

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