Reporter Asks Trump if It Was ‘Deliberate’ on His Part ‘To Have the Market Sell Off’

Reporter: “Mr. President — “
Trump: “And we‘re talking about a $1 trillion. You know that, right? We‘re not going to lose $1 trillion for the privilege of buying pencils from China.”
Reporter: “On the idea of crashing the markets on purpose, there‘s been some speculation, partly because of the video that was posted on Truth Social, that there was some sort of deliberate effort on your part to have the market selloff. Can you talk about that?”
Trump: “No, that‘s not so. But I do want to solve the deficit problem that we have with China, with the European Union and other nations, and they‘re going to have to do that. And if they want to talk about that, I‘m open to talking. But otherwise, why would I want to talk? And as you know, because of the tariffs, we have $7 trillion already committed to be invested in the United States, building auto plants, building chip companies, and all sorts of companies are coming into our country at levels that we‘ve never seen before. Biden had nothing coming in. He was — this was a dead company with — this was a dead country with Biden. He didn‘t know what he was doing. And that‘s now been proven, at least.”