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Donald Trump answered questions from reporters at his news conference on the economy and inflation Thursday.

The news conference was held at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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like we can ask we talked
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to him and what advice of any you're giving him about a ceasefire about ending the court. the last time I filmed was at Mara
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Lago and he came with his wife and uh a large group of people and uh, we had a
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very good relationship with him and with Israel. again this would never have happened October. Seventh
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would have never happened would have never ever happened And uh he asked for the meeting we had the meeting It was about 2 hours
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2 and a half hours long. and uh, I expect I might be talking to him, but I haven't since then.
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did you encourage him not to take a ceasefire deal. Did you give him any advice about ending the war? he knows what he's doing? I
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did encourage him to get this over with you want to get it over with it has to get over with fast. but
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uh have Victory get your Victory and get it over with it has to stop the killing has to stop. Yes,
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please. Thank you. Thank you president Trump. You've spoken very passionately about how God saved your
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life and I'm wondering have you put much thought into
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why. God saved your life as in for what purpose? has even shielding and protecting you so I don't
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know if you heard the question you've spoken about God saving your life that I've spoken passionately about it and
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something happened. because that was a miracle I never looked that way. the audience was massive and
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it was in front of me. I never have the that particular graph. That was a graph on as you all know
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now that it's very uh, I think everyone knows it very well, but it showed the great numbers on
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illegal. immigration. It was the lowest point we've ever had. and it was 1 that I use less than 20%
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of the time. It's always at the end of the speech. not at the beginning of the speech and it's always on
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the left side. Not the right side. and yet for some reason I called it. I it's not on a teleprompter I do
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things. largely without a teleprompter frankly. because it's hard to hold an audience if you're going to go for an hour
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and a half or 2 hours reading. reading a script. and I just talked about it
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and I moved to my right turned sharply to my right ping. and if I didn't do that, I'm not here with you. So yeah. God has
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something to do with it. It's it's a miracle. and God had something to do with it and maybe it's uh,
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we want to save the world. this world is going down. this world is going down.
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So it could be but I believe that I believe that my sons are very good shooters. They're they're
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like scratch golfers better relatively speaking We wish you a great Shooters and Eric and Don both told me
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I from 130 yards I said. well that's yards far away Isn't it? They said no, that's like a 1 foot putt.
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with you know weapons like the 1 being used plus he was a good shooter. This guy was a good shooter. He went to the
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range and shot a lot and he was supposed to be a pretty good shooter. They said a bad shooter would have hit
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the target almost 100% of the time. so uh something happened and I have to say
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the uh, Secret Service sniper. Did an amazing job he had 5 Seconds to find
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the target? and hit the target and he hit the target. within think of
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this. 5 seconds, and he was much further away because he was over here. and this
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other person was over there. so you have to give credit and I have to also say about Secret
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Service. when I was hit. I knew it because when I touched there was blood pouring all over my hand I
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said I guess I know what that is and I went I was going down for protection and there were screaming get
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down get down. There was bullets. and uh those Secret Service guys were
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Anderson Kate. they were on top of me. and a matter of I think 3 seconds
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it was time that and bullets were coming out. I would hear the bullet I didn't realize you could hear it. But now I know
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very well. uh those bullets were going right over my head. They were there. And
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very brave there was nobody that said I'm not going to be going there. they just uh, they were there very
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quickly and they were very brave. they were and they were mistakes made Obviously. He shouldn't have been up there The roof should have been uh
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taken care of. and there were mistakes made. There's no question about it, but uh, there was a lot of Bravery also we have
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to remember that. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank
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you. I want to talk about credit card debt for just a second. You've got all these items for a record. It's a record. 48% up. um
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in many families using going into debt just to pay for groceries. What's your message to Americans
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right now that you can make America affordable again? Well, I'm not saying my message to them. So he said credit card debt is
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at the all-time high. It's never been like this. Watch your what's your message to? America how we're going to
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solve that and what will they do? You know what I think they should do. They should. on November 5th or
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sooner if it's early voting which largely it is, which is ridiculous. We should have 1 day voting
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paper ballots. We should have. voter ID and we should have proof of citizenship because people
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are voting and people are going on now without citizenship. but we should do it then. Maybe we'll be
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able to get that done to its 1 of the things I want to do. but my message to them would be very
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simple vote for Trump. and we're going to fix the problem. We're going to get it fixed. We'll get it fixed follow up kamala's been
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promising on day 1 I'll do this. and for basically 4 years. She's promised this day 1. what will you do on
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day 1 to turn this country around? so she is saying when she gets in she's in
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now. and especially with Biden because I mean he's not in the best of shape
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But you know what She's in there now. She can do anything she wants. and she's still saying if you elect me I'll do this.
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I'll do why didn't she do it his my 1 question. That's the easiest question. because she complains about
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everything. everything every why didn't she do it? That's the all I ask. on
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day 1 we're going to drill, baby drill, and we're going to close the border and we're going to let people come in, but they're going to come in Legally.
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They're going to come into our country legally. but on day 1 we're going to do many things and I can do a lot of things. at 1 time.
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but the questions off of this, what's the first thing you're going to do? I would say we have a tie. we're
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going to close the border. We're not going to let we're going to stop the millions of people coming in and we're going to take all of the criminals that have
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come in and we know every 1 of them. I know. and the local police know better than anybody else
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they're going to work with us. I've spoken to a lot of the sheriffs the every every policeman virtually
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every law enforcement group in America has endorsed Trump. I don't think
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anybody's endorsed. Kamala. not 1 I don't think anybody's
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endorsed them and you know that better than anybody in, Florida. in all over, California. They've endorsed
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me we have the relationship. I have with law enforcement. and these are great people and people that we have to really
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cherish and respect and let them do their job and protect them. and you'll always have a bad apple and
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everything. Yeah bad apples as reporters that I can tell you many I'd say about 80% but you're always
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going to have bad apples, but you're going to have very you have very very few when you look at it. very very few. You have
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to let them do their job you have to protect them but basically we're going to drill baby drill. We're
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going to get the energy prices down almost immediately and we're going to close the border and we're going to get the crooked ones out the bad
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ones out and we're and we're going to let a people come in because we need more people. especially with AI coming and all of the different
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things. and the farmers need everybody needs but we're going to make sure that they're not murderers
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killers. drug dealers and the kind of people that we have largely coming in right now. Mr.
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President, Mr. President. many of your allies who want you to win in November say your current strategy isn't working that
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you need to stop with the personal attacks on Kamala Harris and deliver a more disciplined message Do you
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agree and also you added more people to your campaign today Is that a sign of a shifting strategy? know? I think it's
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a sign of we want to close it out we had we have great people Susie is fantastic as you know, and Chris is fantastic. They're
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leading it. Uh, Corey Lewandowski is coming in. Uh, he'll be you know, uh
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personal Envoy or he'll be at some at some level. They're going to be
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you know, they're they're doing a great job look we've taken with all of the abuse we've taken from the fake
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news media all of this horrific. abuse we take and all I want to do is make
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the country get all I want to do is have strong borders and good education. We want to have choice for
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education. So important so many different things. you would think it would be the other way we rebuilt the military We did so many
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great things. but that's the way it's been for republicans and I guess more so for me than anybody in history and that's okay.
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because we're leading in the polls for the most part. We're leading in the polls. We were leading Biden by a lot. We're leading now,
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but I think when she's exposed I think I think we're going to beat her by a lot more than we would have beaten Biden by because he
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had a little group of people that have been voting for him for a long time. She doesn't have that people don't know who she
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is. Uh, as far as the personal attacks. because
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of what she's done to the country. I'm very angry at her that she'd weaponized the justice system against
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me and other people. very angry at her. Uh, I think I'm entitled to personal attacks. I don't have a lot
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of respect for her. I don't have a lot of respect for her. intelligence. And I think she'll be a terrible
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president. and I think it's very important that we win. and whether the personal attacks are good
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bad. I mean she's certainly attacks me personally. She actually called me weird. He's weird. It was just a
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sound bite. and she called JD and I weird he's not weird. He was a great student. at Yale. He went
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to, Ohio State. graduated in 2 years. at the top of his class. and all of these
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different things and and we have this guy. that's running. a failed really a very failed state. who's
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had a terrible career. I mean you have him saying. they're weird know. He's a
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weird guy. and she's weird in her policy who wouldn't want to have strong
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borders who doesn't want to have lower taxes. you know all my life I've watched as politicians campaigned
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and I've always been on you know for the most part on the other side. on the side that these people are on and They always
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talked about we're going to reduce taxes. This is the only campaign I've ever heard. where they're saying
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We're going to increase your taxes. and then people say they're going to vote for them. I don't know so I don't think so. I don't
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think people know who she is yet. when people because really people didn't know. You can ask the
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man on the street. I saw it on 1 of the shows today. They asked the ministry. What's the last name of
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Kamala? Nobody knew? its Harris nobody knew the
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last name? I don't even use it because nobody knows who I'm talking about. People don't know who she is. She's
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a radical. left. socialist. but beyond that I mean
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she's Way Beyond socialism. who's going to destroy our country. and when they
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find out I think you're going to see something. but right now even not knowing her. and with all of the
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like the cover of Time Magazine. they didn't put a picture They got a great artist to do with it. What was that all about,
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You know, what was that all about? the whole thing is crazy. I just want to win
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for the country. Uh, some people say oh why don't you be nice, but they're not nice to me. They want to
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put me in prison, you know, just so you understand, you know, they tell me I should be nice they want to put me in prison.
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It's never happened before in the history of our country. I did nothing wrong. I have crooked
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judges. I have crooked prosecutors. and they're all Democrats all Democrat areas
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other than in Florida where you had a brilliant. judge. Who ruled? in my favor? I
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won the case the documents case. 1 it in its entirety. And Jack Smith. deranged
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Jack Smith. suffered a defeat but in New York City everything's Clubhouse
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everything I know it very well I grew up there. I know it very well. and we have a very crooked system and it's 1 of the
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reasons that New York is done. Nobody wants to come in know companies want to come in because the courtroom system is so
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corrupt. both at a federal level and at a state level and a city level. And they
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put you into an area where you have 3% Republican vote. It's all a rigged deal. Just like funny. f a
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n i fee uh with her. boyfriend and I think that's
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been discredited to they've been discredited but think of it they don't want me to be a little bit
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nasty they want to put me in prison me. They want to put it's never happened before in the history of
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our country. It's happened in third world countries. but it's never happened here. third world countries, but it's never happened
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here and they're in danger because you create a precedent for doing that. And once that happens, that's a that's a really bad thing. You know
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when and and the years before and I've said this a few times not too much, but uh with Hillary she was
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subpoenaed by Congress to give everything. she's got and she burned it she acid
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washed it. bleach bit they call it. She totally scrubbed it and then they
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broke everything with hammers. with uh fire they burned it. and then
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she said I don't have anything what turned out that she had a lot to give. and everybody said lock her up lock her up, and I used
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to go easy. Just easy easy then we won. and I said wouldn't it be terrible and and you know, I
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lose some people. are upset when I did this but you have to look at it maybe differently now. I say
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wouldn't it be terrible? to put the wife of the president former president
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of the United States into a prison. now think of that. Hillary Clinton you said Secretary of State? She was
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the wife of a president of the United States who used to be a friend of mine before I ran for,
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you know for politics. He was a friend of mine used to play my golf course all the time. I have a great Golf Course right next to their home in
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Westchester. He used to be there all the time. is his favorite course. But you know what? I could have
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done that very easily. She was so guilty. and I said to my people. wouldn't it
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be terrible to put I don't know. wouldn't it be terrible to take? and we won the election? wouldn't
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it be terrible to take? a former Secretary of State? Who was the wife of the president of the United
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States and put her into a prison? but that's what they want to do with me and I did nothing wrong.
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It's all crooked politics and really crooked judges. You don't have a gag order. Do you know I can't even
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talk about it right now. Do you know that I have a judge? who has a gag order He doesn't want me to
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talk and the reason he doesn't. want me to talk. is because what I say is
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so devastating. and so horrible for him and but
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think of it I have a gag order. There's never been a politician in history. I mean probably for any
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politician for a city council office. I'm the leading. candidate. to be
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president I won virtually unanimously and I beat everybody. the quickest.
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it was the quickest primary. in history. There's never been 1 that was done. so early. I had
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people that were very talented people and I I beat them by 45 5060 70 80 points. There was never
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a close race Nobody was even close. Good talent there weren't close. and I'm
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running. against the Democrats so it's a 2-party system whether we like it
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or not. Republicans are I'm the Republican and I'm leading. but let's say I'm
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tied but I'm leading I believe I'm leading by a lot more than people think. and I believe we'll be leading by a lot more. and I have a judge who put a gag
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order in me. So when you ask me a question or when you ask me a question I can't give you. an answer
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because if I give the answer they want to put you in jail. He said we'll put him in jail. if he
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talks. Beyond. the gag order. and this is in a state where the unfortunately
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the laws have been very bad and they haven't been upheld. by the Appellate
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divisions generally, although I have 1 case where we uh judge, uh
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certain judge. that won't use names, but the Attorney General case where we won 5
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appeals on the same case the most ever. It was a ridiculous. horrible
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decision. where you have a very very biased. voting. population. and a judge that
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whose hatred of Donald Trump was beyond belief. and we won the case, but he
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ruled a ridiculous amount of money civil case. rural reduces now, this is a what they're doing is uh,
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interference with an election they want to interfere look at the 1 thing They want a sentence right before the election
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takes place. Let's sentence him. because who's going to vote for him? If we let's sentence him right before?
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no. this is interference. with a presidential election and a state level.
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and it's a state that always goes. Democrat it's interference and as you
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know the Supreme Court ruled recently on immunity, and I'm immune from all of this stuff that they
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charged me with. But isn't it a terrible thing? and yet Hillary Clinton? when it came time to make
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a decision? I said I don't want to put the wife of the president of the United
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States. in prison. I want the country to come together and to be Unified.
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And here it is a few years later. and these people say
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let's put him why because I'm I challenged an election because I want to challenge an election or some other
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reason. uh it's a really disgraceful thing. It's a shame and it's a very
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dangerous thing for both parties because once they start that ball rolling once they started rolling
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that's a that's a nasty. Well, yes, please. please just a quick questions here. Uh, Nikki Haley told our
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Brett Baer that Republicans need to stop. whining about. Kamala Harris focus on courting those
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Independents So Suburban women the moderates out there. What do you think about strategy and would you consider having
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Nikki Haley on the campaign trail with you? Sure. Um, I think that we've done very well. I think that we're
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hitting a nerve I think this is a different kind of a race All we have to do is Define our opponent as
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being a communist or a socialist or somebody that's going to destroy our country. Uh, you know, I I
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thought Nikki very hard I beat her in her own state by legendary numbers uh, and
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I get along with her fun. I appreciate that She endorsed me and all of that. Uh know I think that
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uh, I think relatively to what they're doing and how radical they are And how in many ways how sick they are. I think I'm doing a
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very calm campaign. I mean we're here there's no shouting now. You'll say he rented and raved and not
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you but some of you will say he ranted and RI I didn't rant and Rave I'm a very calm person believe it or not. if I wasn't uh, I
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probably wouldn't be around anymore, you know. probably wouldn't be around but no, I think uh, I appreciate your advice. Uh
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I have to do it my way. you know I ran against her. And I did it my way people said I should maybe. do
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it a different way, but I won in South Carolina by numbers that nobody's ever seen before, you know, it
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wasn't even close and and I think she's a good woman. I'd love to have her support. Yeah, she give me
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she gave me support. but I'd love to have her go around in campaign. quick follow up on the economy You mentioned this in your
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remarks vice president Kamala Harris wants to put a ban on. the federal
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government is should be responsible for determining food prices. Well, not only responsible. They probably
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can't do it legally. and that will drive up prices. Uh, she wants to know
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fracking now. She may go and change that I think she's already changed it. but she wants to have no fracking I want no.
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fracking. but for her whole life She said that. no
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fracking then about. I don't know when a couple of months ago all of a sudden when she started looking at polls remember
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this she all of a sudden says fracking. I don't think any the I I won,
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Pennsylvania and I did much better the second time. I wanted in 2016 did much better the second time. I
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know, Pennsylvania very well. I don't think there's any way in hell. that somebody that's intelligent
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living in, Pennsylvania is going to vote for somebody that basically will eventually end. fracking.
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and fossil fuel. so whether it's Oklahoma. or Texas or Pennsylvania? a big energy
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state? people don't realize that 350,000 people work in that industry, but maybe more importantly they don't
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want to pay. nine dollars. a gallon for gasoline. So uh,
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know I think that uh, she's made statements. I I don't know how you get out of it. I don't know. how you can say
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for 10 years. There'll be no fracking. mean we have tapes of her laughing at
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the stupidity of the question. Of course, I'm not going to allow Frac and then all of a sudden a few months ago she comes out.
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in favor of oh, yes, I'd allow fracking. Uh, I don't think anybody in,
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Pennsylvania. will be I think she's going to do very badly in, Pennsylvania. You have to Frack we need
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the energy and Pennsylvania needs these jobs but, Pennsylvania needs the energy also that energy
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is going to support our new system for AI and all of the other modern things that that need massive
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amounts of electricity and energy, massive. so it's a very good question. actually but uh we have
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to we have to unify as a country we have to come together and I think we can you know, think get that
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question. often times and I used to think maybe there's no way because you know some people want a border or some people
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don't want to border Most people do want to border. but there's such a difference in people. but
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just before coid coming out so 3 years we want a long period of time. and we had an economy going the likes
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of which no country had ever seen before I think you would agree. There's never been anything like it. and people were coming
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together. People were calling me very I would call them radical left. but
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I would say very liberal people very Progressive people. they came. to me we would like to get
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together. In fact, we worked out criminal Justice Reform. I was the only 1 that could have done that I
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won criminal justice. Reform. and I got that. for black leaders that came to
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see me Criminal Justice Reform. Obama couldn't do it. Biden wouldn't even
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try. But nobody could do it. I I got that done and I got conservative votes to get it done They
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needed at least 5, very conservative votes. It was very hard to do. I got that done. our country was
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coming together and you know I can tell you the story of Criminal Justice you from when you do that
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That means that's a big step. but I was seeing people that were.
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not seeable that that I wouldn't want to see them and they wouldn't want to see me. and all of a sudden we were having I was
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having lunch with people that if I told you who they were you wouldn't even believe it. our country was coming together. success
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was bringing our country together. And it can be done success will bring our country together again. it
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can be done. It was an amazing. phenomena and I used to say I don't know.
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It's awfully tough to get it together. I've never seen anything like it like for instance me getting criminal Justice
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Reform done and I did that with Democrats and some very conservative.
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Republicans who said it's very unfair where people are staying in jail for 3540 years. And today they
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wouldn't even be charged with a crime for what they did. and we got it done and I was very proud of it,
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but our country was coming together. the black population had the best
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numbers they've ever had on jobs on income on everything. the Hispanic. population had the best
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numbers. Asian. population men. women young people with diplomas from uh the
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best schools Harvard MIT the Wharton School of Finance. They're all coming together.
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and everybody was happy every and young people without a
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high school diploma. the best MIT students and people without a diploma
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were all working They were getting they were making more money than they've ever made every single. there wasn't 1 group That
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wasn't doing doing better than it was. the year before 2 years before or ten years before it was the
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best our country had ever do and we were leapros. I
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took in hundreds of billions of dollars. in tariffs. from China.
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hundreds of billions of dollars. No president ever took in 10 cents. and what happened was an amazing thing. We had a
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great. successful. country. and our country was unifying. It was the first time
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anyone seen it but our country was unifying. Some of the polling out there. I
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know you're saying that you're leading in some polling, but there is other polling out there of Fox News poll out just yesterday. has you up by
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just 1 Point. How do you break? away? What is the point? Yeah and Fox News
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has always been my worst Bowl believe it or not and even Fox News had me up
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by 1 or 2 points yesterday came out I think 2 points 1 Point, uh, I also think
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you know I tend to Polo. in some cases really low, you know in 2016 I was
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bowling low because people didn't want to say who they're voting for. I don't know if they're supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing, but it is what
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it is. Uh, and we did very well in 2016 and we did
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much better in 2020 much better but bad things happened. through Co bed
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Very Bad things happen. so we're not happy about that. Yes. I've seen you around a little bit. So go ahead, please Mr. President. Thank you for doing thank you. Thank
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You I know was the fence too far. What's your plan for holding? China accountable if you get reelected well, I
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want to get along with China. Uh, I had a great relationship with president. XI We made a
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fantastic. trade deal. 50 billion dollars of farm products and Manufacturing products They had to buy
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here and they were adhering to it. They don't adhere to it anymore because they don't respect Harris or Biden but as you
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know, we signed a trade deal with China. and it was actually better than even the usmca it was
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a great trade deal. China had to buy 50 billion not 15 billion or not. Anything else 5050 billion dollars.
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and it was a great trade deal. was think that that's 1 of the underrated things. I think we'll have a great
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relationship with China. I hope we're going to have a great relationship. but it's got to be a fair relationship China was taken
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advantage of the country for years, But so is every other country in all fairness to China. every
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single country. was taking advantage. of the United States I can't think of 1 country. where we
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were doing better than them. Japan was taken. Abby was my dear friend 1 of The Great Men. great leader.
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but all of these countries were I I used to say who signs these agreements every
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it's actually it's amazing that we economically survived. because we had such bad negotiators or
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people were getting paid off. I actually looked at some deals. I'd say nobody could be so stupid to
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sign a deal. this 1 so 1 side it. whoever made this deal. Has been paid off.
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and then I'd look into it a little bit. Yeah, and all of a sudden he's working as an agent for that country. 3 years later 5
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years later now We we change a lot of those deals South Korea We change the South Korea deal. we made it
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from a horrible deal to a good deal. We we I changed the Japan deal but I made a great deal with China.
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They had it by 50 billion dollars worth They never bought anything like that. In fact, it was a misunderstanding. when I
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said the people in negotiating what number are we talking about? they said 15. I thought they
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said 50 so when they came back to me they said sir, we're all set to get it going. I said good.
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What's the number 15 I said you told me. 50. Why are we going down to 15? They said no we said
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15 I said you told me 50 actually. I heard them wrong. They said 15, but I heard them wrong. So I
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said go back and get 50 and we got 50. instead of 15. and it was it was great, you know. uh,
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I I really think that we can have a great relationship with China we can have a great
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relationship with a lot of countries that right now 1 of the things with China I know as much as any
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country. but all of the countries the 1 thing is they have to respect you if they don't respect you.
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and you know uh, I was very tough in countries like Japan. and yet. Abby who
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was a great man. assassinated. horribly assassinated. He was a great
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man It was a great leader. but I believe and I was very tough on him. I was very tough on Russia Russia. I was
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probably the toughest I ended nordstream, too. I ended the north the biggest deal they've ever done the
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biggest pipeline in the world the biggest all of Europe was going to be supplied by Russia. and I
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ended the deal it was dead and then Biden comes in and approves it and they say, oh I was nice to Russia
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now. Putin actually said to me 1 time, you know. if you're supposed to be like
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friendly with me. I would hate like hell for you to be angry at me because you are brutal. think of it. Not
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only that the sanctions but forget the sanctions I ended. nordstream 2 the
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pipeline was dead and then Biden comes in. and he got 3 and a half million dollars
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in all fairness from the mayor of moscow's wife remember that during the debate we brought it up
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and Chris Wallace. Who's not the father. He is not there is no resemblance between
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him and Mike Wallace that I can tell you. He said you shouldn't be talking about that I said why not? they got 3 and a half the family
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3 and a half million dollars from the mayor of moscow's wife. Why wouldn't I talk about that? He wouldn't let me talk. I
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said, what do I I'm negotiating against 2 people not 1 I turned out to be right because a year later.
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That was a big Scandal. Why did he get 3 and a half million dollars? but Biden approved immediately. the
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pipeline in Russia not the same and he killed the Keystone XL pipeline.
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48,000 jobs. He killed it. He did the exact opposite of what he should have
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done. Yes, please. I know you had your hand up Nice to see you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thanks for taking my question. I you
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reference your a conversation with Elon Musk earlier this week. I want to ask you about that you praise how he treats workers? saying they go
30:44
on strike and you say that's okay. You're all gone. You're all gone. So every 1 of you is gone. Are you really comfortable with
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companies threatening to fire workers? Who go on strike? Well,
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now I want companies to get workers that are going to love them and work for a wage that lets the company make a profit so they can go and expand. uh in that case they moved as you
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know, they moved the company from, California. Elon. uh from, California to Texas because they were able to
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get things at, California wouldn't give and I I did ask him 1 question. Uh, you're moving a very big
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company out of, California. that's been there for years. into, Texas. did the governor of a call you and
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say like, let's work it out because we don't want to lose you. don't want to lose you. and he said he never called.
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governor nusam. He never called. and you would have thought if I were governor of, California and if Elon
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or anybody else they have oil companies leaving. I would be calling. but no,
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uh Elon. wants to run an efficient company and if he has to get he got rid of a lot of people on X or
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former Twitter, like a lot of people gone and it still works. it still works. So
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uh, you got to run the company uh productively and they're going to be a lot of jobs around I want it
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so that a person doesn't have get lucky and find a job I want a person that can look for 10 jobs and
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all 10. companies want them and you negotiate a great much more than you'd get
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by doing what you just suggested. so, you know, I he has a he's a strong.
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man. He's a strong guy. It's a brilliant guy. and he wants to get the best
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he can and he wants to get the best workers. Uh, he pays a lot of money to a lot of his workers. Uh,
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it's to a certain extent. supply and demand but ultimately that's what's going to lead to a great country. So to follow up
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on that really quickly because some people took at that as you saying that you would be comfortable with companies
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threatening to fire workers. ahan O'Brien who spoke at the Republican National Convention saying that firing workers, who
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are wanting to organize or striking is economic terrorism, so just to be clear that's something that you are not. comfortable.
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Yeah. They were an organizing. against Elon. he let them go because uh, he
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was having a lot of problems in, California. He was made they were making it impossible for him. in California. what they were doing with the taxes and
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everything were making it impossible for him. and John O'Brien's a great guy from the teamsters you're talking. Yeah. Sean is
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great. Uh, I think Sean would understand it better than anybody he's don't forget the unions are
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really threatened by what's coming in by the these millions and millions of people coming in. Sean
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O'Brien understands that uh, the black population is absolutely threatened the
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Hispanic population is absolutely threatened. because these people are coming in they're going to take their jobs. They're
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going to make it very very hard. what's happened in our country is is very dangerous very bad thing.
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because um Governor Tim, walz is out on the campaign Trail today and he's been saying that he
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believes that you want things to get worse so that you can campaign on it that you're rooting for failure. What's your
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response? I wish I didn't have to do this if our country were run by democrats and it was run
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beautifully. where we were really being productive and everything else. I would have never done this. I
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wouldn't have done it if I thought I couldn't have won. I think I can win. I think I can win easily once they're exposed for what
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they are, which is you know radical left. lunatics and that's what they are. They're going to ruin. she's going to ruin
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our country. going to ruin our country and I just hope the people of our country and I believe they are because I see it already
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happening. but I hope they are able to think for themselves. because if they think for themselves if
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they look at the destruction that's going to be caused. because by Kamala and this this person from out of
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nowhere he came. out of nowhere. a state. That's that I love that state but
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a state that's doing so poorly. where he's the 1 that signed in tampons and
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boys. bathrooms. He signed a bill that boys bathrooms all boys. bathrooms in,
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Minnesota. will have tampons. and what's going on? what's wrong with us?
34:46
What's wrong with us as a country? So no, I would uh, if if we had somebody doing a phenomenal job. I
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would be extremely happy. what I want to do is I want to see even the last few months. I hope the
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country does really well even though it would make it probably a little bit harder to win. I hope the country does really well.
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It's country first I want our country to do great if they were great leaders, I would be the first to say
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they're doing a fantastic job. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
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please what do you regret debating President Biden so early on in the race do I
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regret debating? Biden? So it was it was his request. He said we should get the
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debates on early. And I was willing don't forget I got CNN. I got. Jake tapa and
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Dana Bash And they're not Trump people. Uh, they wanted to have a debate
35:52
where? their Mike's had turned off when the other person. answering the they gave me every single thing
35:58
that I couldn't approve and I said, yeah, I'll do it. so they got the debate on their terms. They got the
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network that they dreamt of. but that was really his decision I had a decide whether or not I felt I had
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I wanted to debate them. and I think they didn't want to debate but I agreed to every single.
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thing. It was a debate where they said. uh, we'll give him. something that it'll be impossible for him
36:20
to accept and I accept it all the terms other than when they had a sitting down at a desk and I said,
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I think that makes us look bad. I don't want to sit down let's stand up and they agreed to that other than that. uh, we gave
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them CNN we gave them Dana and we gave them Jake and by the way, I have to say Jake Tapper. and Dana
36:38
Bash. were unbelievably straight and honest and I
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give them a lot of credit for that. Uh a lot of people were saying you couldn't have a fair bit. I think we have that with ABC I have some people at
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ABC that don't like me too much. Uh, I find it to be about the worst. George.
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slabulous. I have a lot of I have a lot of people at ABC that I find it to be actually the most unfair
37:03
of all the networks. And they want to do it on ABC. whatever. Uh, you know, I don't mind. the question
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that you're asking though about whether or not the debate should have happened would have been a better question to ask
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of Joe Biden because had he not done the debate. he would still be running for president. and people would
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be hiding him. just like the hiding her right now you know, they're hiding her. no different than him
37:27
because I believe she's grossly incompetent and I don't think that when people hear what she has to say. they're going to buy
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it. Thank you all very much. Thank you.

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