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Just think of what we already accomplished in four incredible years. We delivered the largest tax cuts and regulatory cuts in history, and likewise we built the greatest economy ever in the history of the world. China was going to catch us for 20 years. 2018, China was going to overtake us. We were doubling up. We were so far ahead of them, they never had a chance. And if we had a smart president, they would never be able to take us. We achieved energy independence, and energy dominance was going to be there right around the corner for the first time in about 78 years. I think probably more than that. I don't think we were ever dominant. We created the most secure border in U.S. history, built nearly 500 miles of border wall. I hear this sloppy Chris Christie guy. He said, "Trump only built 47 miles of what I did before." Then they checked with the Border Patrol and the people that do that. Almost 500 miles of wall. And remember this. Remember this. I said, "Mexico is going to pay for it some way." They gave us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. That's more than any wall. And they did that for years because while I was building the wall, and Congress fought me tooth and nail, including some Republicans. They fought me like Mitch McConnell. They fought me tooth and nail. And I ended up taking the money out of the military. I took the money out of the military because I considered it an invasion of our country. And we built almost 500 miles of wall. And then I said, "We completed that job." And I said, "You know, we're going to need some more because people are coming around other areas." So we ordered 200 miles of additional wall. It was ready to be installed, could have been done in three weeks. It was all there. It was all built. The hard part is getting it there and building it, building it and getting it there. And they didn't want it to go up. And that's when I first, I guess, believe that they actually want to have an open border. It's so crazy. With people coming in, the likes of which you don't ever want in your country. But we got Mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. And that was hard. I like the president of Mexico. He's great. He's a socialist, but you can't have everything, right? But he's a great guy. And they laughed at me when I said, "I want you to supply 28,000. That's what we need, soldiers, along the border while we're building the wall." And they said, "Why would we do that?" I said, "You just have to do it. Please do it. I would appreciate it. We will not do that." I said, "Well, are you sure?" Then they sent the representative to see me at the State Department with a woman that was very good. She worked on Mexico for 25 years. She said, "Sir, they'll never do that. She'll never do that. They'll never do remain in Mexico. They'll never do catch and release into Mexico. They'll never do any of these things." I said, "Yes, they will." "No, they won't, sir. They won't." I said, "Yes, they will. You watch." The guy comes in, the top representative comes into the office. I said, "We need you to give us 28,000 soldiers for our border, please." He laughed at me. He thought I was a fool. And I said, "No, no, no, don't. If you're going to give me those soldiers, no, no, no. We cannot do that, sir. We cannot. How foolish a request." I said, "No, no. You're going to do it. You're going to do it. And if you don't do it, on Monday morning, we're going to put a 25 percent tariff on every single product coming out of Mexico, including cars, 32 percent of which you stole from the United States. You know, they took 32 percent of our car manufacturing business by stupid presidents that allowed it to happen. We didn't allow it to happen. Now it's happening again, I hate to tell you, Michigan, and all the states that are so good, it's happening again. They're taking the car business. The electric cars, they're not going to be built here. They're going to be built in China mostly. But I said to them, I said, "I'm signing this, 28,000 soldiers, and what's the story?" "Sir, I'd like to be able to make a call. Do you mind if I come back?" So I told them about the 25 percent tax tariff, and it comes back about three minutes later. "Sir, we'd be delighted to supply you with 28,000. We would be delighted to give you all the soldiers you want. Please don't do that to us, sir. Please. Thank you." No, he said, "We'd be delighted. It would be my great honor to give you 28,000 on behalf of the Mexican government." And these were very good soldiers. They were not politically correct either. They were, said, "You cannot come in." And we had the greatest numbers anywhere. We deported also illegal alien criminals like MS-13 gang members that killed people for fun at a number nobody's ever seen before, thousands and thousands. I never got enough credit for that whole deal, but we had the safest border in the history of our country. Now we have the most unsafe border, I think, in the history of the world. No country would allow millions of people to just walk across the country. We have no idea who they are. I fully rebuilt the United States military, created Space Force, defeated ISIS, something which they all said you couldn't do. I did it in four weeks, because we have great generals. We have great generals. We have not the ones that you see on television, the real generals that we have. And we have great, great generals, and we brought our troops back home. We got them back home, but we defeated ISIS. And I was the first president in decades who didn't start a war. I didn't start a war. We had peace through strength. As I was building that military, we got more and more bravado going, but they respected us. We did a great job. But we do. We have great soldiers. You know, it's very important for you.

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