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Jasmine Crockett: “He [Trump] actually was going to institute tariffs.”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Jasmine Crockett Discusses Democratic Strategies and Budget Concerns at Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 04:06

And they just said, well, that's the person that's in office. Instead of actually having this global conversation, or one of the things that he was honest about is that He [Trump] actually was going to institute tariffs. The problem was people didn't understand exactly what a tariff was because he was able to say, you know what? And it's going to be those foreign countries that pay for the tariffs. (04:06–12:18)

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Asserts that Trump planned to institute tariffs.

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