08/10/20: President Trump Holds a News Conference

Thank you so much. I thought I'd start by talking about an email in the vote that was just revealed. Just the

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. Half a million incorrect absentee ballot applications were submitted across the state of Virginia, including many deceased people. This was an unprecedented shipping error. That has raised concerns about the integrity of mail-in voting expansion and mail-in voting efforts. It's a disaster all over Virginia. Half a million votes, so that's something to think about. We don't want to have a rigged election. I know and you have to be very careful when you mention, as you constantly do, Russia, or you mention China, or you mention Iran or others who attack our electoral system and when you have this vote by mail it is very susceptible, it is something that can be attacked easily. by foreign countries and by frankly Democrats and Republicans, and I think it's something that you have to start thinking about very seriously, our system is not equipped for it, the post office is not equipped for it and people should vote as they did in the First World War. and the second world war and your numbers will be in 90 days or less your numbers will be very good, I think much better with the coronavirus or the China virus, but it is something that you have to look at and say this is crazy, this is just came out half a million incorrect voting applications sent across the state of Virginia to many people who weren't alive, some were sent to pets, dogs, this is what we're going to get into and it's going to be a disaster and it's going to be considered very bad it's going to hurt our country after our Saturday night press

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and pro-growth announcement we're pro-jobs we're pro-health security executive orders the stock market is up 358 points today so we issued those executive orders and the stock market went up 358 points today it's a great reaction the dow jones and the sp 500 are now up 50 percent since march 50 i think if you had money there if you put your money in march yes 50 the nasdaq index continues to set new records it's up over 14 times new nasdaq record and the sp 500 and the dow dow jones are going to be, I mean, the way they're going, it looks like they're about to break records , I hope soon, sorry.

Sorry, there was a shooting outside the White House and it seems to be very well under control. I would like to thank the secret service for always doing their job quickly and very effectively, but there was a real shooting and someone was taken away. to the hospital I don't know the condition of the person it seems that the person was shot by the secret service so we'll see what happens and uh yeah, did you have anything good? No, there are no details that we just discovered. uh it was outside the white house in this area right around here and they will have details for you in a moment as someone is taken to the hospital it appears that the shooting was carried out by law enforcement against that person the suspect was I suspect who was shot and this just happened a couple of people outside uh I noticed a man named John Roberts who you know very well uh he reported that he heard gunshots he was outside and he heard two gunshots that we don't know yet no I'll take him to the oval office.

I just told myself that when he appeared you saw him almost like I did. He said sir. Could you please come with me? Then he was surprised. I was surprised too. I think it's probably quite unusual. but very, very professional people who do a fantastic job, as you know, so it seems to me that, from what I was told, there was a shooting, it was a police shooting, someone appears to be the suspect and the suspect is now in path. to the hospital I can't tell you the condition of the suspect there was no one else hurt there were no other law enforcement officers hurt and I just want to go to the press

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but I want to thank the secret service they are fantastic the job they do from what I understand , the answer is yes, maybe a briefing for you outside later, I don't know, I didn't ask that question, it may have had nothing to do with me, it could have been something else, but uh.

It was on the outside of the facility, the wall, uh, as you know, the fence, especially the new fence that they put up, is very powerful, but it was on the outside of the white house, okay, and they'll have a full report from the secret service. . We will have a full report in a while. Do I see him nervous? It's unfortunate that this is a world, but the world has always been a dangerous place. It's not something unique. The world has been. You look back over the centuries. The world. It's been a dangerous place, a very dangerous place, and it will continue, I guess, for a while.

Does this make you think differently about your personal safety inside the White House? No, I feel very safe with the secret service, they are fantastic people, they are the best of the best and they are highly trained. I don't know if anyone was able to get out, but there were plenty of great looking people ready to do so if necessary. People at the highest level of law enforcement. There is no one like these people. So they just wanted me to step aside for a moment just to make sure everything was clear outside because I was right in this area, Mr.

President, why did you decide after that? Because it obviously created a lot of commotion, which made him decide to come. Come back and continue with the briefing. Well, I didn't even think about not coming back. I said: Can I go back? And they told me you'd have to wait a little bit. I waited a little bit, as you know, in the oval office area. Uh, I said, can I come back now? and they said yes and that they have many fortifications outside just in case, but it was a person. Okay, you said the shooting was outside.

How far away were they from them? They are going to give you a full briefing in a while for the white house or was it correct, I can only tell you that they will give you a briefing, it was outside the facility, near the fence, but outside the process, very close to here, very close. I was telling you that the Dow Jones and SP 500 are now 50 percent above their March level. The Nasdaq is setting new records. He has already broken the record. Despite the China virus situation, new jobs are emerging and unemployment is falling faster. almost anyone thought and in the last three months we have created more than nine million jobs and that is a record, a record of three months added together is a record of three months with a difference and we have exceeded expectations by 12 million or 12 million . above expectations, which is quite notable today we had great reports on new job vacancies and clearly there is a real estate boom which has been incredible numbers both in the real estate sector and in the automobile boom.

We have rarely seen anything like this and it is happening right now in the United States. inventories are at rock bottom used car sales are at record levels and we will have rebuilt we are doing a rebuild like no one has ever seen it is a huge plus for manufacturing and construction so construction is approaching a record territory manufacturing is doing very well for automotive companies We are very happy with Michigan, the state of Michigan, we have many automotive companies moving into many plants that are being built and expanded in Michigan and Ohio. There is no reason why the economy could not grow at a rate of 20 percent in the third quarter would be a record and, interestingly, it will be a number that will be announced before November 3;

It will probably be announced around November 1st, which is very interesting, but it will grow at a very substantial rate depending on everyone. The numbers we are seeing and probably much more substantial than we originally thought, we are creating new incentives for jobs and we are also providing much-needed assistance to those who are still suffering the effects of the pandemic contraction and the contraction is now well, we have the pandemic, there are a lot of wonderful things happening in terms of vaccines and therapies, as you know, and I think we will make tremendous progress over the next period of a few months and certainly before the end of this year I think we will have a vaccine before end of year very substantially and we may have a therapeutic resolution very quickly, very, very quickly and, frankly, that's the one I'd rather have faster because you'd get in. giving a transfusion or an injection to people who are very sick and could leave the hospital the next day or a few days later, if the states participate in our shared central unemployment plan, we are going to do something very very interesting with all the things that we announced on Saturday I have to repeat what they are, you know very well and we have already had tremendous success if you look at what is happening with the stock market and people are very We are excited about what we are doing, we would like the Democrats to They will concentrate on something other than what they are focusing on, which is a bailout of malfunctioning states.

We have a lot of states that are doing very well, states that are setting records and, uh, let's see what happens with respect to that, but we are considering also considering a capital gains tax cut that would create many more jobs, so we are very seriously considering a capital gains tax cut and also a middle income income tax cut. families, we are considering extending the tax cuts that we have already made, but specifically for middle income families and you will hear about that in the coming weeks and I think it will be very exciting, so a capital gains tax It will get to work to a lot of people and there would be a cut in the capital gains tax and also a cut in the middle income tax so now I want to discuss a quick summary and then We'll take a few more questions but we took a few that you would have known we were going to ask questions before starting.

Well, that's true, Jennifer, but that's how it happens sometimes we want to discuss whether we could face the virus from China and the world. continues its fight against this horrible plague, countries on all continents are seeing increases in cases, we have a rapid increase just in cases where it is very interesting because we are so far ahead of testing, we have more cases, if we had much smaller tests, there would be less but we believe that having tests is a very important thing, it is a great record to have in many ways we have tested about 65 million people right now and no one is even close to that number, no other country is near.

India would be second with 11 million and it has 1.5 billion people so we have the number one testing in the entire world by far and we also have, I think, the highest quality testing, we have a lot of different ones, but we have the most high quality, including short-term and laboratory tests, laboratory tests take a little longer and dr. burks told me a moment ago that we have two days and two and a half days left to get his result back from the lab. Try the other ones, he'll get them in five to 15 minutes, which is exciting, but countries on every continent are seeing increases in cases in recent days.

Unfortunately, cases have increased rapidly in Japan and Australia and are now experiencing higher spikes than moving south of a border of our border cases have continued to increase in Mexico Central America Argentina Colombia Peru Brazil and throughout Latin America it is really the critical point and it is posing a huge challenge for this continent latin america is now the region with the highest number of confirmed cases by far despite a relative shortage of testing so when you think about that, that means it is on fire going through a difficult time and we are helping them, we are sending them a huge number of ventilators that we are manufacturing.

There are thousands every month and we are helping Latin America a lot. It is difficult for them to come to the country because we have large sections of wall going up now that the new wall is being built that people don't talk about, before they didn't talk about anything. but the wall now that is being built, they don't talk about it much, but it has helped us because we are almost getting close to 280 miles, 280 miles in the most important areas, so that is helping us a lot in terms of keeping them out of the country. people infected with the coronavirus, this global trend underscores the persistence of the virus, including nations that enforce the strictest and most punishing lockdowns, there are nations that are really tough on lockdowns and are taking a very hard hit, that's why my administration is taking a science-based approach that protects the most vulnerable, preserves hospital capacity, and focuses on the delivery and development of treatments and, ultimately, the vaccine.

I firmly believe that we will have a vaccine by the end of the century. year and it will be put into service maybe even when we receive it because we are all ready militarily, we are using our military to distribute the vaccine and logistically there is no one like this group of people. I meet with them a lot and they are ready to go as soon as they have it, they will go, but the most important thing is the therapeutics, like I said. I think the therapy could beexcellent at first. I think it would be if I had my choice, but you can have both. have both, you can have both very soon too, at the same time, we urge all Americans to apply common sense mitigation, everyone knows what that mitigation is, everyone knows it by heart.

Now almost half of all deaths from the China virus in the United States have occurred in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, which is why we have delivered funding kits and rapid tests to nursing homes in our nation to protect those at high risk in which we are highly concentrated.nursing homes and senior living areas anywhere we have elderly people who are highly concentrated. We have delivered over 1,800 point-of-care rapid testing devices that are very fast and we have shipped over 700,000 tests to nursing homes. Nursing homes are being protected. Like never before, the United States faces a unique variety of challenges that require our constant vigilance.

The United States has the largest at-risk population of any developed country, by far, 1.5 million nursing home residents, about five times more than the United Kingdom and other European countries. The country also has a higher prevalence of the underlying conditions this virus targets, but we have fewer deaths per capita than the UK and most other peer nations in Western Europe, so it is important that we have fewer deaths per capita than the UK and most other nations. in Western Europe and we are heading for even higher numbers, but one person is too many as far as I am concerned, this should never have been allowed to happen, escape from China should never have been allowed across the country, we continue to see encouraging signs in the last seven days throughout the country. cases decreased by 14 hospitalizations decreased by 7 deaths decreased by 9 arizona and florida are improving rapidly with fewer patients coming to emergency rooms, in addition to decreasing cases, decreasing unexpected deaths and expanding hospital capacities, so That we have expanded hospital capacity, it is nice.

It's dramatic when you look at it, which means we have more space in case we need it, so tremendous work has been done in Texas. Additionally, the number of patients going to emergency rooms has dropped since July by more than two-thirds, that's a lot. continue to monitor Texas very closely, great governor, great people working on that whole situation in Texas, especially their testing positivity rate which increased over 20 percent this weekend. In general, the cases in Texas are decreasing and have stabilized in the border counties, that is again where you have the wall and you are next to uh in some cases the wall in some cases you will have it very soon you will have it all built in a few months but those areas were hard hit and are likely cases of mexico coming and going from the border entering legally as doctors have found more effective ways to treat patients the mortality rate continues to improve texas has gained six the mortality rate mortality of new york and new jersey that they had in April and the If you look at New York and New Jersey, they work very, very hard but with a lot of density and many different types of difficulties.

Death rates in Florida and Arizona are between 25 and 33 of the peak rates in New York and New Jersey, again different. different climate a different cluster different density wildly different density in california the situation is beginning to stabilize and improve in major metropolitan areas hospitalizations across the state continue to decline very substantially with approximately 20 percent fewer patients now than 21 July California is starting to really show signs of correction, we are monitoring regions with rising cases, including Boston, Chicago and the Midwest, and we are monitoring them very, very intensely and very, very intensely. I mean I think at the end of a fairly short period of time we will be in very, very good shape across our country, every loss of life is tragic and all nations must work together to defeat this horrible virus.

My administration will continue to save as many lives as possible. We are working 24 hours a day. Everyone is amazing how hard they are working and people from other countries are also working with them and they are working very hard. This is something that has now attacked 188 different countries. There are a wide range of factors that determine how the virus affects a nation, such as age, underlying conditions, underlying conditions are very large, if you are sick in any way, if you are especially, say heart and diabetes not it's good to have it if, uh, if you're going to get this if you're going to get it, so we're trying to protect especially those people who have heart problems or diabetes and pre-existing immunity levels resulting from past exposure to other viruses, which happens, we must stop politicizing the virus and instead unite in our condemnation of how this virus got to the United States, how this virus got to the world and we are going to solve it and we are going to find out and we are very angry about it in the therapeutics and updates of vaccines, three vaccine candidates are currently in phase three clinical trials, something that would have been impossible under the previous administration or any other administration, and several others are showing considerable promise.

We have great companies, very well-known companies. I think everyone in this room would. I know these companies, but they are the biggest and the best in the world and we are working with other foreign companies and countries that have been working very closely with us, we are negotiating, we do not intend to do anything. but we find the answer and we don't really care, we want to find the answer if it's one of ours or one of theirs, okay we have to find the answer and we're too close to get it some people think we have it, we might Let's have, we have the best scientists in the world racing to develop a safe vaccine that will end this pandemic, save millions of lives and that means millions of lives around the world and put an end to the harm inflicted. for this virus to our society and all other nations last week the nih started a clinical trial of rem de serious combined with another approved antiviral and anti-inflammatory drug, you know that rem dever has been very successful and now they are experimenting with others, including antivirals and anti-inflammatories, and they are having very interesting success.

We have obtained enough remdessevier to treat more than 650,000 patients on Saturday. I took executive action by signing it to save American jobs and support American workers. I signed directives to give a payroll tax exemption with the understanding that after the election, assuming an administration that has done a great job would emerge victorious, we would end that tax, on the other hand, the other group wants to increase it. taxes and they may want to leave it where it is paid, but the payroll tax is a big problem for people, it is a tremendous savings for people and we are going to do it and we intend to end it at the end of the appropriate period.

It's time for those making less than a hundred thousand dollars through the end of 2020 to provide an additional four hundred dollars a week in unemployment benefits as well and extend the freeze on housing evictions. We want to extend the freeze so that people are not evicted. It's not their fault that the virus came from China, it's China's fault and suspending student loan payments until the end of the year and then beyond, you know they are paying interest on the loans and they are not allowed to go to their university, so we're suspending student loan payments until the end of the year and then another extension, most likely because it's not fair to students to have to pay when colleges aren't doing the job of opening up.

And I think probably a lot of them could be open, so I want to thank you all. I'm sorry for the disturbance before things happen and if you want we can answer some questions. Yes, thank you, Mr. President, I appreciate it. Haley said. Today he has been working around the clock so that there are no delays in getting these unemployment enhancement payments to Americans. Can you give me your schedule? We're talking next week, two weeks a month. So, Mr. Secretary, are you saying when I think inside? next week or two most states will be able to run it, I got it and by the way, gentlemen, you know everyone, you know Russell, you know, but this is Scott Atlas.

Do you know that? Scott is a very famous man who is also very. Very respected Stanford and he is working with us and will work with us on the coronavirus and he has a lot of great ideas and he thinks what we've done is really good and now we're going to take it to a new level so it's great we have Scott working together with us and we appreciate it very much Scott, thank you very much, really, we have had great discussions about that, Mr. President, if you don't mind, you mentioned that the states have all the governors signing this, uh, I just had a meeting with the governors and they were very eager to get money for the people in their states and whether they depending on the state we have the right to do whatever we want we can finish the 25 uh or we don't have to do that so we'll see what it is it depends on each individual state , but a lot of money is going to a lot of people very quickly and I have instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to act as quickly as he can.

We will, yes please, I just wanted to ask you to be clear about the incident outside. There is a fairly significant perimeter around the White House. He is not at all concerned that someone armed could have gotten so close. you needed to be removed from the briefing, well I don't know if it was close or not, he or she, I don't know if it was him or her, but I have so much trust in these people, they are so good and I don't think the person violated nothing, it was outside, so I don't think anything was violated.

I asked that question, so they were relatively far away. 97,000 children tested positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, according to the US report. pediatrics academy does that give you pause about reopening schools for in-person learning because they may have, as you would call it, a case, it may be a case, but it's also a case where there's a small, it's a small fraction of death, small? fraction and they improve very quickly, yes, they may have it for a short period of time, but as you know, the severity of the problem in terms of what it leads to is extraordinarily small, far less than one percent believe that Children are essentially yeah, I think for the most part they're doing very well, I mean, they don't get sick a lot, they don't catch it easily, they don't get sick a lot and from the people I've talked to. they don't transport it or transfer it to other people or it's certainly not very easy so yeah I think schools have to open we want our economy to work we have incredible numbers despite this if we could get this to work I think which is very important.

It's important for the economy to get the schools going jonathan thank you Mr. President uh in Ohio a few days ago you said quote joe biden you have hurt god you are against god the vice

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has said that he is a man of deep catholic faith who is credited with helping He endured immense personal tragedy, so sir, what did you mean by that when you said Joe Biden has hurt God and risen up against God? Well, if you look at the manifesto that they came up with and if you look at their stance on religion. and things that have very important to do with aspects of religion and faith.

I don't think a man of deep religion would agree with Bernie Sanders' plan. Take a look at what they have and you just can't put that in In the scope of a religious group of people, I will say that and I think that's one of the reasons why, if you look at the polls which I don't believe in very much, no. I would if it were, I guess it wouldn't be. standing here right now and by the way, our poll numbers are going up very quickly, as you know, and Joes are going down very quickly, he's going to have to come out of the basement, it seems very soon because, you know, he's one of those. things, but no, if you look at the manifesto, I call it a manifesto, a lot of people call it a manifesto, in my opinion, it's further to the left than where Bernie was before, so normally they would leave it and you would take it somewhere a little bit. towards the center, but some of the things that they have down there and I'm not just talking in terms of religion, I'm not even talking in terms of religion, but some of the things that they have in the agreement made and this was an agreement. made by bernie sanders and joe uh it's a terrible thing it would be a terrible thing for our country it will destroy our country we will go into a depression we will regulate we will double and triple taxes it will be terrible for health care is terrible, 180 million peopleThey will lose their health care, it will be a terrible, terrible thing for our country, okay, yes, please, Jeff, thank you sir.

I'd like to ask you a question about something you also said in Bedminster. that you are planning to issue an executive order to ensure that health insurance companies prevent or cover people with pre-existing conditions and you said that has never been done before but that is not the case because that is the law under affordable care act, so my question is why is it necessary to issue an executive order for a law that already existed? I didn't say, I said as an executive order, like you said, I said as an executive order, it hasn't been done before, we want We want to be able to assure people that pre-existing conditions are always taken care of, as you know, we have done tremendous things that have to do with the individual mandate.

We got rid of Obamacare's individual mandate, which really killed Obamacare as it was. It would be officially known because the individual mandate was the most important part, it was also the most unpopular part, where you pay for the terrible privilege of overpaying for the insurance that you pay to not have to pay for your health care and that was a disaster for the people. a very unpopular one that was called the individual mandate and we terminated that and officially ended it and that was something that many people have thanked us for, but the individual mandate will always be with us, the termination of the individual mandate will always be no they can start it, in fact, I don't I even think you're going to have to tell me that I don't think it was challenged when we finished it and the pre-existing conditions, the Republicans are there 100 percent and I will release at some point in the not-too-distant future a statement strong about that, probably in the form of an executive order, why do you need her to make an executive order if she's already part of it? just a double safety net and just to let people know that Republicans are all for the pre-existing condition taking care of people with pre-existing conditions is a signal to the people is a second uh is a second platform we have pre-existing conditions will be attended 100% by the Republicans and the Republican Party I think it's actually a I think it's a very important statement.

Yes, please, Mr. President, do you still intend to try to hold an in-person G7 meeting in the United States sometime in August and September? Have you already sent out invitations to do so? we sent invitations, we are talking to them, as you know, yesterday I was on the phone with many of them regarding Lebanon, which is truly one of the saddest and most catastrophic things I have ever seen in my life and you have no idea how many people have They died, they are having a revolution right now in that country, it is a terrible thing and yesterday I went at eight in the morning, we had an hour, we had a big teleconference, some of those people were there.

I'm much more inclined to do it sometime after the election. We were going to do it in September. They would like to do it. We could do it through a teleconference or we could do it through a meeting, but now I'm suggesting. I told my people yesterday, actually, why don't we do it sometime after the election, when things are a little better? You have a little more time to think about it because it is very important, the G7 is very important for that meeting, I don't know. but we have invited several people to the meeting. I would certainly invite him to the meeting.

I think it is an important factor. But we will invite certain people who are not in the G7. Some people have already accepted, but we will be there. do it after the elections I think it's a better atmosphere to have a g7 I think it's a lot uh I think it's a better calmer atmosphere to have a g7 yes, please, thank you. I wanted to ask the secretary, actually I should have talked to you. have any Democrats since Friday or contacted you to restart negotiations. I have spoken with several Democrats. I haven't spoken to Schumer since.

Do you expect that he would contact them with the finance department so that whenever they want to meet? and they are willing to negotiate and have a new proposal that we are more than happy to hear about, they are hurting people a lot, this would have been very easy for them and I saw what Senator Schumer said today on a show that I don't know what show, but today he said on the show that we should get together, we should do something, but you know where he's been for how many weeks you've been negotiating like four and they should do something, it would have been a lot easier.

We had to do it the way we did it, but we did something that is very important and, frankly, it has been well received, very well received, go ahead, please Mr. President, you tweeted today that you are considering Gettysburg as a location for your speech for nomination to the rnc. acceptance What's your thinking behind that as a possible location? Well, I think I've been to Gettysburg numerous times. It is a national park. It is a national historic site. Is incredible. You know, it's the story. Actually, it's amazing to me. It was a very important place. and it's a very important place in our country, so we're looking at that and we're looking at the white house.

The white house would be a lot easier for the secret service. You see what just happened here. Everyone is here. you have your seats, they have their seats in the white house, so there would be no extra expense or expense and the white house would be a lovely place to do it all, so the least expensive place you could do it would be in the white house this is a government expense, a government expense and you know, look, I also watch governments, I watch to make sure we do the right thing, but we're looking at Gettysburg and we're looking at the White House and we have other places . too, but I think these would be two really beautiful places, Jennifer, can you imagine having an audience for that speech?

Could you have plenty of space in both places? I see John Roberts John uh you were outside you said you heard gunshots before two gunshots in quick succession right after you picked up the phone and they were gunshots almost certainly you definitely know the difference. I know that's you know the difference. You thought they were gunshots. John. It definitely sounded like I saw your report inside when I walked in. Good report too, thank you very much, I appreciate it, uh, Jennifer, can you give us an update on China? Do you think your administration will respond to the sanctions China announced this morning against American officials?

Well, we have already responded in many different ways. we're, we're talking a lot about China, we shouldn't have been talking about China, we did a phase one deal and it was a wonderful deal and all of a sudden it means very little in the overall import of the things that they should have done. I never allowed what happened to the world, including us, but this was released in Europe and it was released in the US and it was released worldwide, but it wasn't released in China and we were doing numbers that, as you know , they were amazing. and we hope to be able to do it maybe even next year.

I think we're going to have an incredible year next year, but that will never pay for the loss of life in our country and around the world, so we look at China. differently than we did eight months ago very differently yes please is there still any consideration for delisting Chinese companies? It's just that there is an ongoing discussion about delisting Chinese companies, we never comment on specific things but no there is nothing to follow the chart there is again nothing specific at this time are you talking about deleting comments from the list on the exchange? yeah, oh, sorry, yeah, so just to be clear, we made the recommendation and the section will post yes starting at the end of next year, if they don't fully comply, and that's the Chinese companies, any other companies, all They have to comply with exactly the same accounting, where they will be delisted from the stock exchanges and Jennifer, we are also talking about the WTO, global trade.

China is treated very differently from us. This should have been handled many years ago when it first happened, but they are treated like a developing nation. They are treated as what they call a developing nation, which gives them tremendous incentives and advantages over and beyond what the united states gets and beyond what other countries get, this is also a developing nation, I don't think so, I don't think that, for the purposes of what we're talking about, it should be and we're putting and We've already submitted a request for China to no longer be declared a developing nation and have advantages over the United States and I told you that a few years ago. year and I told them that two years ago and we told them very strongly that they should have no advantages over other countries, frankly, and I'm sure they're not going to have any more advantages, this should have been done by numerous

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s a long time ago because it gives them a tremendous boost over everyone else and is a very unfair action. situation no, we are upset with China for what they did China was not good and China will be if you look at what is going to happen if it is Iran Iran will make a deal with us in a month after the elections are over if we win elections, but the biggest dream in the world is that joe biden wins because they will own this country, china will own this country, north korea will own this country, they will own our country and everyone is waiting to see the elections and if we do one if we win on November 3, in my opinion, we will have a deal with Iran within a month and to be honest, I don't know if we want to have a deal with China, so I say that to myself.

Wow, but China really wants us to lose and you know who else isn't happy with us beating Russia. The fake people telling the story. Fake

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about Russia. It has just been reported. The numbers. I raised an additional $400 billion in NATO. We know that it went from 130 billion to 400 billion dollars and that is a year to strengthen NATO. Nobody says that we became the largest energy exporter. Now we are, if you look at what we have, we are energetically independent. There are so many different things in our military. it's stronger than ever we spent 2.5 trillion dollars on our military i exposed the terrible deal between germany and russia on the pipeline no one even knew about the nordstrom nordstrom 2 pipeline no one knew no one is talking about it i said what this is all about So we protect Germany from Russia and Germany pays Russia billions of dollars a year for energy and it's a big part of Germany's energy.

If I were a person who was a German citizen, I would not be happy with that agreement because they are at a very great disadvantage, so no, Russia would not be happy and I can tell you that China would not be happy at all. We have received tens of billions of dollars as you are the head of the treasury, Steve, right, we have received tens of billions of dollars from china we never took 10 cents from china we never even took 10 cents and 28 billion dollars were We gave them to our farmers because they were targeted by China, in reality they were targeted and we gave $28 billion courtesy of China to our great farmers and ranchers because they were unfairly attacked by China in order to reach a better deal with us, I said. : we are not going to do that, instead of making a better agreement we are going to impose tariffs on very high figures 25 10 and in reality numbers that could increase a lot and we had a lot of money left after giving the 28 billion to the farmers and ranchers and to some others, frankly, we had many billions of dollars left over and we are still receiving that money even though we made the deal, we are still receiving that money, so if we win the elections, we will have agreements with many countries very quickly, just They are waiting to see who wins because they have hope. they are waiting for joe biden to win dream joe and if he wins you know what is going to happen china will own us our markets will collapse the 401k will go down to practically nothing stocks will go down to practically nothing remember stocks these big companies that are owned by millions of people who are carpenters, police officers, farmers and many other people, and they are the ones who benefit from having a good stock market, probably more than anyone, but the 401k, the stocks, the economy will be in chaos they want to increase taxes want to triple taxes they want to raise the corporate tax but they want to raise all taxes ultimately they can't afford what they want to do anyway and what they're going to do is destroy your healthcare and destroy So many other things, we're going to have 180 million people who are so happy with their private healthcare that they are going to lose it under this crazy plan that these people are proposing, so you will have a collapse like you have never seen. before and I have been very good at predicting these things yes, please guys, thank you, thank you Mr.

President, you just mentioned President Putin and the possibility of inviting him here because it is important, his own director of national intelligence. He has said that Russia is currently planning or actually interfering in the elections. Have you raised thatdirectly to Putin? They said China, Russia, Iran and probably others, but because of the fake news, they seem to think Russia plays better, so yeah, that's all they do. well i'm just saying the way the politicians looked the other day they said the three countries said china and russia and iran and a journalist stood up and said russia is meddling i said well didn't he mention china and iran no?

You don't mention them too, so I don't know? You know what I'm saying. I'll tell you who is meddling in our elections. The Democrats are meddling by wanting and insisting on mail-in votes with their corruption everywhere. The place, if you look at what happened in New York, was a relatively small race with Carolyn Maloney and they called her the winner the other day because I mentioned it in conferences and got a lot of action on that declaration, so they called her and declared her. the winner and they have no idea who won and the person their opponent is very angry but they had vote by mail and they had hundreds and I think even thousands of ballots missing that were fraudulent take a look at carolyn maloney's race take a look at paterson, new jersey take a look now at this one in virginia where they mailed out 500,000 applications and went to people who are not supposed to receive an application yes please go ahead thank you mr secretary pompeo is headed to europe again This week, do you have any updates on when travel restrictions will be listed with the EU?

It seems strange that we are offering waivers for professional athletes, but not for so-called k-1 visa holders, we try to do the same. The best thing we can do is have big sporting events and that's good for our economy, that's good for us and they talk about certain exemptions and they make sure that everyone is tested perfectly and everyone gets to 100 percent, but you know we make certain accommodations because you have star athletes and that means something good. For the country that is economic development, etc., but we are working very closely with Europe and other countries to see what is the best moment.

Don't forget that it was I who discouraged Europe because they really paved the way, they left it much more. So, we spent months following them and, in terms of, they got hit before us, quite a bit earlier than we did, so I put the restrictions in Europe, I put the restrictions in China, which was a great thing to do in retrospect. We're getting, I mean, that was a very important day. Dr. Fauci said it was one of the most important days and a lot of people didn't want him to do it, but first we banned anyone from China from entering. and then we banned Europe from entering, but we are working very closely with Europe to see when everything will happen.

Yes please, if 160,000 people had died during Obama's presidency, do you think he would have called for his resignation? No. I wouldn't have done that, I think it's amazing what we've been able to do if we didn't shut down our country, we would have had a million and a half or two million people by now, right? we call it now we don't have to close it we understand the disease no one understood it because no one has seen anything like this the closest thing is in 1917 they say the great pandemic certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people probably ended the second world war all the soldiers were sick it was a terrible situation and this is highly contagious now it is highly contagious if I had listened to many people we would have done it we kept it open and by the way we keep it open now until the end we keep it open but we would have kept it open and it could be up to a million and a half or two million people right now between a million and a half and two million people, our people have done a fantastic job, our consultants and our doctors, you know, with disagreements and with many things happening, what we have done with the ventilators has been incredible, what we have done with the medical equipment has been incredible. no one supplied the governor, not a single person in this country who needed a ventilator did not get one and you know, at the beginning there was a huge shortage of ventilators, no one had reserves or anything comparable to what we had to have, so we would have lost .

If you think about it, you would have mentioned 160,000 people, multiply that by 10 right now. I think it would have been unsustainable and unacceptable, but that's what would have happened if we had kept it open, so no, I think we are a very big country. you are one person, I said it all the time, a lot of people like to leave that out, one person is too many, it should never have happened, but they have done a truly extraordinary job, they will never get the credit and I won't. Speaking of myself, the people who have worked so hard on this will never get the credit, but they have done an extraordinary job with a very large and diverse country, truly an extraordinary job and many of the governors who, as you know, do it. the bus in their states and they go up and I think I can tell you that many of the governors have also done an extraordinary job.

Yes, please go ahead, thank you. Did you ask the US ambassador to Brazil to focus his efforts on eliminating ethanol? tariffs in Brazil you have to do it, you can't, yes, ambassador to Brazil to focus his efforts on reducing and eliminating ethanol tariffs in Brazil, we haven't really discussed that much, but at some point we probably will and we don't want people. they tariff us and if they tariff us although I must tell you they have a very good relationship with President Bolsonaro he is great and I hear that he is doing well he has recovered from having coveted having coveted 19 as they say and that is great and I send you greetings I think that in what Regarding Brazil, if they make tariffs, we have to have an equalization of tariffs and we are going to present something that has to do with tariffs and equity and tariffs because we have many countries for many years that have been charging tariffs to do business and we do not charge them and called reciprocity it's called reciprocal tariffs and you might see something about that very soon did you have one? oh yes oh yen please thank you mr president first of all thank you for Coming back to finish the briefing thank you very much after the fight so I have an opinion question for you.

Joe Biden is ready to announce his running mate at any moment. We hope he announces it. Many of his supporters feel that the reason Obama's former NSA Susan Rice is at the top of Biden's list is that she can better cover up many of Obama's gatekeeping crimes that took place during his campaign. What do you think? What is your opinion? Do you subscribe to that? line of thought, how do you feel about it? Well, look, the Obama campaign spied on ours and they got caught, and now let's see what happens to them, but they got caught, they got caught red-handed, it's probably treason.

It's a horrible thing they did, it probably never happened before, at least no one got caught doing it, but they use our country's intelligence agencies to spy on my campaign and they've been caught and there are a lot of people involved that I don't want. say how much she's involved, frankly, if he chooses her, that's fine, but it's a potential liability, we'll see, but president obama knew it joe biden knew it comey knew it brennan clapper the whole group everyone knew it lisa page and her lover hit, everyone knew it and we have it documented, we have it in texts, we have it in all kinds of forms, they knew it, it was a terrible thing, it should never have happened and it should never be allowed to happen to a president again.

This should never happen again. This was a setup like we have never seen. I think it's the political crime of the century and they got caught, so let's see what happens to everyone. Thank you so much.