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YIKES -- Trump loses his shit at a reporter for the third time during this Q&A -- "Wait wait -- Quiet. Quiet!!!! What's wrong with you? Are you a SICK person?"
YIKES -- Trump loses his shit at a reporter for the third time during this Q&A -- "Wait wait -- Quiet. Quiet!!!! What's wrong with you? Are you a SICK person?"
Q: In the new Fox News power rankings, it shows that less than a quarter of rural voters are happy with the state of the economy. Are you concerned?
TRUMP: No, because as soon as the war is over -- it's gonna end very soon -- oil is gonna drop like a rock. It's a small price to pay
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "It's amazing that she can get elected, but Somalians vote for her. Most of them shouldn't be here" (Omar's district is largely white)
Q: If there is a problem with Ilhan Omar's age, could she be deported?
TRUMP: She could be. She could also go to jail. I think she's a sick, very dishonest person who hates our country. She comes from a country that is essentially not even a country. Somalia. It's a real shit house.
"If a man who works in the election bureau asks, 'May I see your papers please?'" -- Trump complains that election workers in some states can't ask voters to show their papers
Q: Can you confirm that the US is on the verge of a deal to free the American teacher, Stephen Hubbard, from Russia?
TRUMP: Uhhh. Just stick with me. Nobody else was able to do it. Just stick with me. I don't want to talk about it.
Trump makes it sounds like Ukraine's defeat is a done deal: "Ukraine has to want to make a deal, because the US has spent a fortune. Europe has spent a fortune. Europe is tired of it. If they don't make a deal -- ultimately it's just gonna get worse. You have a very big country in Russia. It's time."
Trump: "We gave $350 billion to Ukraine. And I insisted on getting something for that money, and we got a very big chunk of land and rare earth and other things. Let's see what that amounts to. But Ukraine has to want to settle this war. Zelenskyy has to want to settle this war. And if he doesn't, I think it's gonna be a very bad thing."
Q: You're offering 1% to whistleblowers for turning in what you're defining as fraud. The False Claims Act, which has been on the books since 1863, offers between 10 and 25%--
TRUMP: At 1% people will make millions and millions of dollars