Trump: I’ll Bring Jobs Back to the U.S from Mexico by Implementing a 35% Tax on Ford

‘Their negotiators are much better; their leaders are much smarter’

DOOCY: “...on the phone. Good Morning to you sir.”
EARHARDT: “Good morning.”
TRUMP: “Good morning. Well, they do like me in Michigan, I have to say, and I like them so, let’s see what happens.”
DOOCY: “What do you think is going on with John Kasich closing in?”
TRUMP: “Well, I think Rubio is really failing badly. He’s been a terrible senator, he doesn’t show up to vote, and he has some big problems as you have probably heard. And you know, a lot of people think he’s dropping out of the race, so I think that probably helps Kasich a little bit. But Rubio is really sinking rapidly. So, we’ll see what happens.”
EARHARDT: “From what I’m getting as I’m reading articles about why you’re doing so well in Michigan, factories are gone now. Every day items are now being made of [indecipherable]. People really like the fact that you want to implement a 35 percent tariff on cars that are made down in Mexico and you want to bring jobs back. And voters are saying they historically have voted Democrat, but they’re voting for you. What are you hearing in that state? How do you plan on bringing those jobs back?”
TRUMP: “Well, that’s really what I’m hearing. I’m going to bring them back and we’re not going to let them go on the first place. Because, you know, Mexico’s taking Ford. You see $2.5 billion plant. And they’re taking a lot of other companies and Mexico is becoming the new China. And so many car companies are moving there and they’re making cars all over the place. And frankly, Michigan is the state that’s getting killed and I think that’s why I seem to do  so well in the polls. I’m not going to let it happen.”
EARHARDT: “But how do you plan to bring the jobs back to that state?”
TRUMP: “Well, I’m going to bring them back by — look, when Ford builds a plants and then they sell their cars with no tax whatsoever, just like we’re bunch of foolish people, I want to say a stronger word, but we’re like foolish people, we just take their cars and we take their trucks and parts, no tax, no nothing. What do we get? We get nothing. Mexico gets 100 percent, they get everything. Their negotiators are much better, their leaders are much smarter. And we end up with nothing except unemployment. We’re not going to let it happen. So, if they’re going to do that, we have to impose the tax on the car company that moves out. So that when they sell cars into the United States there’s a tax. And you know what are they going to do? They’re going to say, we’re going to build in the United States, ideally they’re going to build in Michigan. And I’ve been with — I have had so many rallies in Michigan. They’ve been unbelievable rallies and, you know, thousands, tens of thousands of people and standing ovations. So, you know, they know I’m right and we will keep the car industry in Michigan and we’re going to bring car companies back to Michigan.”

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