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TRUMP: "They cost Americans nothing. They made a great economy for us. They also solve another problem. If we were going to have problems having to do with wars and having to do with other things, tariffs — I have stopped wars with tariffs by saying, 'You guys want to fight, it’s great. But both of you are going to pay tariffs to the United States at 100%.' And they have many purposes, tariffs, if properly used. I don’t say you use them like a madman. I say 'properly used.' But it didn’t cost this country anything. It made this country money. And we never really got the chance to go all out because we had to fight Covid in the last part, and we did it very successfully. And when I handed it over to Biden, the stock market was higher than what it was just previous to Covid coming in. It was actually higher. Tariffs are a — properly used, are a very powerful tool, not only economically, but also for getting other things outside of economics."