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Donald Trump: “For 50 years, other Presidents should have done this job and they never did anything. Obama actually paid them billions…”

On the recordJuly 31, 2026
For 50 years, other Presidents should have done this job and they never did anything. Obama actually paid them billions of dollars — the opposite! He thought he could bribe his way into friendship and they went out and tried to develop nuclear missiles and nuclear weapons from it… For 50 years, other Presidents should have done this job. It would have been a lot easier.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Contrasting prior inaction with his leadership

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