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Trump's Remarks at a Fox News Town Hall, Scranton, PA; March 5, 2020
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Remarks by President Trump at a Fox News Town Hall | Scranton, PA
Issued on: March 6, 2020
Scranton Cultural Center
Scranton, Pennsylvania
March 5, 2020
6:32 P.M. EST
Q You’ve got a great crowd here.
THE PRESIDENT: Nice audience. Nice crowd. (Applause.)
Q Terrific crowd here tonight. Thank you so much, everybody.
{snip}
Q So you want to face Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders? That’s my question. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: I’ll tell you, I was all set for Bernie, because I thought it was going to happen. You know, we get ready for things, right? So, mentally, I’m all set for Bernie — communist — I had everything down. (Laughter.) “He’s a communist.” I was all set. (Applause.)
And then we have this crazy thing that happened — right? — on Tuesday, which he thought was Thursday. (Laughter and applause.) But he also said a hundred and fifty million people were killed with guns and he was running for the United States Senate. “Support me, I’m running for the United States…” There’s something going on there. (Laughter.)
But I was all set — I was all set. And, you know, when I focus — and we all focus, sometimes you do well and some people choke. I watched Mini Mike choke. When Mini Mike was hit by a very mean woman, he said, “Get me off this stage. Just get me off.” And that wasn’t a pretty sight to be — but I was all set to take on Bernie. I was ready. And then all of a sudden, they say, “Guess what…”
I went to the First Lady, who people love. They — (applause) — I go in to the First Lady, and I said — and I said, “He just won Texas. He just won…” — you know, et cetera, et cetera. And, by the way, so close. It was a whole different thing because of her.
{snip}
Now, the one thing — when I came in, ISIS was all over Syria, all over Iraq, and we don’t want them coming to us. And it was a mess. You understand that very well. And I knocked out 100 percent of the — of the territorial caliphate. 100 percent. We knocked the whole thing out.
Q But what about Afghanistan?
Q If, in 14 months —
THE PRESIDENT: No, but just so you understand, so we knocked out the ISIS caliphate in vast amounts of the Middle East, and I did that fairly quickly.
When I came — again, President Obama — it was all over the place. When I say, “We’re not doing the borders” — we did leave soldiers. We left soldiers because I kept the oil.
And I was always against Iraq — going into Iraq. I think it was one of the worst — maybe the worst decision ever made. But I used to say, “Once they were in there, keep the oil.” They never kept the oil. We have an oil area in — near Syria and in Syria; we kept it. So the only soldiers I have over there, they’re guarding the oil. We kept the oil. So we kept the treasure. That’s okay.
{snip}
AUDIENCE MEMBER: My question is: We are so divided as a country. I have family members who do not speak to me and recently was told, “If you support Trump, you are no longer part of my life.” How are you going to bring us together?
THE PRESIDENT: So, I gave an answer before: Success. But it’s truly a little bit more than that, because we’ve had great success, and there is a division; there’s no question about it.
Politicians have to be able to be civil. If they’re not, you have to fight back. You have to. Otherwise, we’re not going to be — there’s a — there’s a movement on — and I call them the “radical-left Democrats.” And it really is the radical left, because we have plenty of Democrats that are terrific, and they want to see — you know, “Let’s get together. Let’s get things done.”
{snip}
END
6:27 P.M. EST
Remarks by President Trump at a Fox News Town Hall | Scranton, PA
Issued on: March 6, 2020
Scranton Cultural Center
Scranton, Pennsylvania
March 5, 2020
6:32 P.M. EST
Q You’ve got a great crowd here.
THE PRESIDENT: Nice audience. Nice crowd. (Applause.)
Q Terrific crowd here tonight. Thank you so much, everybody.
{snip}
Q So you want to face Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders? That’s my question. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: I’ll tell you, I was all set for Bernie, because I thought it was going to happen. You know, we get ready for things, right? So, mentally, I’m all set for Bernie — communist — I had everything down. (Laughter.) “He’s a communist.” I was all set. (Applause.)
And then we have this crazy thing that happened — right? — on Tuesday, which he thought was Thursday. (Laughter and applause.) But he also said a hundred and fifty million people were killed with guns and he was running for the United States Senate. “Support me, I’m running for the United States…” There’s something going on there. (Laughter.)
But I was all set — I was all set. And, you know, when I focus — and we all focus, sometimes you do well and some people choke. I watched Mini Mike choke. When Mini Mike was hit by a very mean woman, he said, “Get me off this stage. Just get me off.” And that wasn’t a pretty sight to be — but I was all set to take on Bernie. I was ready. And then all of a sudden, they say, “Guess what…”
I went to the First Lady, who people love. They — (applause) — I go in to the First Lady, and I said — and I said, “He just won Texas. He just won…” — you know, et cetera, et cetera. And, by the way, so close. It was a whole different thing because of her.
{snip}
Now, the one thing — when I came in, ISIS was all over Syria, all over Iraq, and we don’t want them coming to us. And it was a mess. You understand that very well. And I knocked out 100 percent of the — of the territorial caliphate. 100 percent. We knocked the whole thing out.
Q But what about Afghanistan?
Q If, in 14 months —
THE PRESIDENT: No, but just so you understand, so we knocked out the ISIS caliphate in vast amounts of the Middle East, and I did that fairly quickly.
When I came — again, President Obama — it was all over the place. When I say, “We’re not doing the borders” — we did leave soldiers. We left soldiers because I kept the oil.
And I was always against Iraq — going into Iraq. I think it was one of the worst — maybe the worst decision ever made. But I used to say, “Once they were in there, keep the oil.” They never kept the oil. We have an oil area in — near Syria and in Syria; we kept it. So the only soldiers I have over there, they’re guarding the oil. We kept the oil. So we kept the treasure. That’s okay.
{snip}
AUDIENCE MEMBER: My question is: We are so divided as a country. I have family members who do not speak to me and recently was told, “If you support Trump, you are no longer part of my life.” How are you going to bring us together?
THE PRESIDENT: So, I gave an answer before: Success. But it’s truly a little bit more than that, because we’ve had great success, and there is a division; there’s no question about it.
Politicians have to be able to be civil. If they’re not, you have to fight back. You have to. Otherwise, we’re not going to be — there’s a — there’s a movement on — and I call them the “radical-left Democrats.” And it really is the radical left, because we have plenty of Democrats that are terrific, and they want to see — you know, “Let’s get together. Let’s get things done.”
{snip}
END
6:27 P.M. EST
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