“China would love us to have an election where Donald Trump lost two sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump said. “They would dream they would own our country. If Joe Biden was president, China would own our country and you said another country. What was the third country?”
“Iran is dying to make a deal but they want to see because they’d much rather make a deal with Biden because, if they make a deal with the United States, if China makes a deal with the United States with Biden in charge, they would on our country,” the president said.
“The last thing that Russia wants and China wants and Iran wants would be for Donald Trump to win,” Trump finished.
JEFF MASON, REUTERS: Thank you, sir. Mr. President the intelligence agencies today said that Russia is already meddling in this year’s elections to hurt Joe Biden and that China is considering meddling to hurt you. Do you believe that intelligence and what do you plan to do about it?
TRUMP: It could be. I mean I could be very much. I think that the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump because nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have ever.
MASON: That is not–
TRUMP: Well, I don’t care what anybody says. Nobody–might nobody with any common sense would say (INAUDIBLE). Look at what we have done with our military. Look at what we have done on exposing the pipeline with billions of dollars going to Russia. Look at all of the things we have done with NATO where I have raised $130 billion a year from countries that were delinquent and now they are paying all of this money and the $130 billion by the way, $130 billion not million, billion, goes to $400 billion over a few years and that is all money to protect against Russia.
China would love us to have an election where Donald Trump lost two sleepy Joe Biden. They would dream they would own our country. If Joe Biden was president, China would own our country and you said another country. What was the third country?
MASON: No, just those two.
TRUMP: No, no. You didn’t–you didn’t say that. The report–the report said Iran also but you didn’t say that. Iran would love to see–Iran would love to see me not be president. And I’ll–I’ll make this statement. If and when we win, we will make deals with Iran very quickly. We’ll make deals with North Korea very quickly.
And whatever happened to the war in North Korea? You haven’t seen that, have you? If I didn’t win the election in 2016, our country would now be–maybe it would be over by now, but in war with North Korea. Everybody said, oh, Trump will get us at war. No, just the opposite. And we actually have a relationship with North Korea, which is something now. It was never established by the previous administration. You would have been at war with North Korea and it would have been a very bad war.
So, North Korea, whether you look at Iran, every one of them will make a deal with this very quickly. Iran is dying to make a deal but they want to see because they’d much rather make a deal with Biden because, if they make a deal with the United States, if China makes a deal with the United States with Biden in charge, they would on our country.
Look what I’ve done. I’ve taken billions–tens of billions of dollars from China. China was having the worst year they’ve had in 67 years and we were having the best year we’ve ever had with big tax cuts, with big regulation cuts. We’ve rebuilt our military. We became independent in terms of energy. We’re the energy leader of the world. We were having the best year we’ve ever had.
By the way, African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic American unemployment numbers the best in the history of our country, all things–and many other groups too, including women, including high school diploma, no high school diploma, college diploma. Everybody was doing better. The last thing that Russia wants and China wants and Iran wants would be for Donald Trump to win.
