Eric Trump: “You literally went from energy independence under my father.”

“My father had to fix that. You had an inflation crisis in the country that was plaguing every American. I mean, you want to talk about unaffordability of life was plaguing everybody. You literally went from energy independence under my father. Right. To. To no longer needing to actually import energy from other countries because we gave up.” (10:23–10:27)

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