Trump on Carrier: The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board ‘Doesn’t Understand Business’

‘I’m a big free trader, but it has to be fair’

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TRUMP: "I don't have to do it myself. I have great people. We have top, top smart people. It's so easy to do. And we're going to have to impose a major tax on companies that leave, build their product, and think they're going to sell it right to our border.
WALLACE: "What about the free market, sir?"
TRUMP: "That's not free market when they go out and move and sell back into our country."
WALLACE: "But that's the free market. They've made a decision --
TRUMP: "No, that's the dumb market, okay. That's the dumb market. I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair. So what's happened is we have lost, over a period of years, short years, 70,000 factories in this country. Chris, 70,000. I always say to people, I think it's a typo. How could it be so many? 70,000 factories. We're being stripped of our workers."

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