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On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
Before the war, much closer to the war, I gave statements that we shouldn't go in and shortly thereafter, immediately thereafter, and honestly, a lot of reporters said hey, right at the beginning, he made this statement. And that statement was a very major story in Esquire Magazine.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Trump defends his past statements regarding the Iraq War, claiming he opposed it before it began.

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