'They Are Killing Us As A Country, Joe': Trump Doesn't Hold Back On Biden's China Policies

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During Thursday's CNN Presidential Debate, former President Trump was asked about how he plans to tackle the opioid epidemic and help Americans struggling with addiction.

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00:00Let's discuss an epidemic impacting millions of Americans that both of you have made a top priority in your first term, the opioid crisis.

00:07And for both of you, the number of overdose deaths in this country has gone up.

00:13Under your term, it went up. Under your term, it has gone up.

00:16Former President Trump, despite the efforts that both of you have made,

00:20more than 100,000 Americans are dying from overdoses every year, primarily from fentanyl and other opioids.

00:25What will you do to help Americans right now in the throes of addiction who are struggling to get the treatment they need?

00:33To finish up, we now have the largest deficit in the history of our country under this guy.

00:39We have the largest deficit with China. He gets paid by China. He's a Manchurian candidate.

00:44He gets money from China. So I think he's afraid to deal with it or something.

00:48But do you notice he never took out my tariffs because we bring in so much money with the tariffs that I imposed on China.

00:54He never took them away. He can't because it's too much money. It's tremendous.

00:58And we saved our steel industries and there was more to come. But he hasn't done that.

01:03But he hasn't cut the tariffs because he can't because it's too much money.

01:07But he's got the largest deficit in the history of our country.

01:10And he's got the worst the worst situation with China.

01:14China is going to own us if you keep allowing them to do what they're doing to us as a country.

01:19They are killing us as a country, Joe. And you can't let that happen.

01:23You're destroying our country.

01:25So, President Trump, you have 67 seconds left.

01:28The question was, what are you going to do to help Americans in the throes of addiction right now

01:32who are struggling to get the treatment they need?

01:34Jake, we were doing very well in addiction until the COVID came along.

01:38We had the two and a half, almost three years of like nobody's ever had before any country in every way.

01:44And then we had to get tough. And it was the drugs pouring across the border where it started to increase.

01:51We got great equipment. We bought the certain dog.

01:53That's the most incredible thing that you've ever seen, the way they can spot it.

01:57We did a lot. And we had we were getting very low numbers, very, very low numbers.

02:02Then he came along. The numbers. Have you seen the numbers now?

02:06It's not only the 18 million people that I believe is even low because they got away.

02:11They don't even talk about gataways.

02:13But the numbers of the amount of drugs and human trafficking in women coming across our border,

02:20the worst thing I've ever seen at numbers that nobody's ever seen under him because the border is so bad.

02:26But the number of drugs coming across our border now is is the largest we've ever had by far.

02:32President Trump. Thank you, President Biden.

'They Are Killing Us As A Country, Joe': Trump Doesn't Hold Back On Biden's China Policies

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