they smiled. they laughed. hthey said are you crazy. i said you ll do it because if you don t do it we re going to put a 25% tax on all of your cars coming in from mexico. we are going to take and billions of dollars and we will do it ourselves. so mexico gave us billions of dollars of free soldiers free of charge. they came back into the room after kind of laughing at me, how stupid of a question this was. they re not going to do that. yes. all of your products, including all the cars. they have 32% of our car business for mexico. i said we are going to put a tariff, 25%. 25%. he said may i leave the room please? yes. he comes back 5 minutes later. we would be honored to give you 28,000 soldiers. mexico paid plenty. sean: going back to the china issue. think of the incidents we had.
our country, sean, is a mess. you know it better than anybody. your reporting is incredible. sven i ve never been more fearful of the state of the country that i am right now. the economy, foreign policy, our future, our kids, our grandkids. you look at biden with these leaders send they are looking at each other like the don t even believe what s happening. our country is no longer respected. three years ago, energy independent, powerful military that was totally rebuilt. the president announced three days ago which he should never have said. possibly classified information. we have no ammunition. when you think china says when they hear that we have no ammunition? it s a very, very sad thing. if you look at the worst border in history. we had the best border in history. we had three years ago the best border we ve ever had. we built hundreds of miles of wall. we got to mexico, free of charge. you know they say about mexico. mexico gave us billions
wall. we renovated a lot. then i said that s built on the other 200 miles because there were some areas that were weak. it was all they are ready to be installed and they didn t do it. but mexico, i said to the president, you have to do me a favor. you have to do us a favor. we need 20,000 soldiers on the border, mexican soldiers. he laughed at me. i m a very good relationship with him. but he said, why would we do that? they are coming in through mexico. you have to stop them from coming in. they are coming in caravans. he said we can t do that. then he had a representative come to see the state department and the state department presence that i ve been doing this for years purely of always asked for a lot of different things, like remain in mexico. i got remain in mexico past. nobody thought it was possible. catch and release. how about this? you catch a criminal and release him into the united states? i got catch and release. but i got this and they said to me we won t do it.
we re going to take it from china. i got $28 billion for the farmers. who got a check? did everybody get a check? i also made the usmca, we have the worst trade deal that we ever made, nafta. you got killed on nafta and i made at the best trade deal. usmca. i got billions and billions of dollars from japan and other countries that were taking advantage. sean: did that money help pay for the wall? mr. trump: let me tell you what paid for the wall. mexico paid much more than when i was asking for because i had 20,000 soldiers on the border when i was building the wall. we built almost 500 miles of wall. our opponents, you know if they say? if there is a little wadded out to buy for laying on the ground that s been there for 50 or 60 years. they would say when we build a 30 and 40-foot wall, it s just a renovation. that s not included. we built almost 500 miles of
to get paid. hunter goes on good morning america. no experience in oil, gas, energy. why are they paying you that money? he actually said i don t know. 50-year-old man. he is my big question. now we know about the whatsapp message which said i m sitting here with my father. we have photographic evidence. we have times and places of meetings, joe and hunter informed business partners all meeting. they have found all of these bank accounts. james comer is saying it s up to maybe $40 million in business, the biden family. i want an answer to this question. do you believe with all the millions that they didn t business with china and russia and ukraine and because asked on and romania and it, and, and mexico and all these countries. is that why russia got the nord stream two pipeline. is that why there were no