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THE PRESIDENT: And let me just tell you —
Q Did you ask —
THE PRESIDENT: Be quiet.
Q — your DOJ?
THE PRESIDENT: Quiet.
Q Did you ask your DOJ?
THE PRESIDENT: Quiet.
Q It’s a simple question. Did you ask —
THE PRESIDENT: Quiet.
Q — your DOJ?
THE PRESIDENT: Are you ready?
Q Yes, sir.
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Q Billionaire Leon Cooperman said this week that if you can’t change your behavior, you probably shouldn’t run again in 2020. What do you say to that, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, no, you’ve really shaped my behavior. Because from the day I came in here, I’ve had problems with phony stuff — like a phony dossier that turned out to be false, like false investigations that I’ve beaten. So a lot of my behavior was shaped by the fake news and by the other side. That was a lot of my behavior.
The fact is that we’ve created the greatest economy in the history of our country. With all of that stuff going on behind me, nobody else could have done it. Rush Limbaugh said he doesn’t know a man in the world that could have done what Trump did.
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Q Why did you acknowledge that your charity was using money for your personal and political purposes?
THE PRESIDENT: My charity was great. I gave a lot of money away. I was sued because, in New York, it’s a hornet’s nest, and they sue you for anything. And yet, on a really bad thing — if you look at that Clinton charity — they left her alone. That’s one of the reasons people leave New York.
I gave away $19 million. I took no expense. I took no rent. I took no fees. I took no nothing. A hundred percent of that money was given away, and I had to actually go through a process, for years, with New York. Because you know why? New York is a corrupt state. It’s a corrupt state. It’s a shame.
I gave $19 million away. And what happened is, instead of saying, “thank you, great,” they hit me with a lawsuit. And it was started by a man who had to get out because he beat up women. That’s the kind of a place it is.
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