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Fox News is covering Trump's speech to the National Federation of Independent Businesses. The other two cable networks are not.
Trump, speaking to a group of independent business owners, blames Democrats for his family separation policy.

Blasts Mexico for "doing nothing for us."
TRUMP: "Canada? They like to talk."

Accuses Canadians of "smuggling" American goods into Canada because "the tariffs are so massive."

"We can no longer be the stupid country. We want to be the smart country."
Trump gets wild applause for reducing the estate tax
Trump creates a false dichotomy, says the only choices he has to respond to border crisis is "totally open borders" or "criminal prosecution for lawbreaking."
WOW -- Trump accuses "the fake news media" of helping human traffickers.

"The fake news media back there doesn't talk about that. They are fake. They are helping these smugglers and these traffickers like nobody would believe. They know it, they know exactly what they're doing"
TRUMP: "These countries that we give tremendous foreign aid to in many cases, they send these people up & they're not sending their finest. Does that sound familiar? Remember I made that speech and I was badly criticized? Turns out I was 100% right and that's why I got elected."
Trump essentially accuses asylum-seekers of being crisis actors who are coached by lawyers
Trump accuses Germany of not reporting all immigrants crimes to protect migrants, then pivots to attacking Hillary Clinton
Trump says he will "go very shortly for authorization" that would allow him to withhold aid to countries from which undocumented immigrants come to the US
Trump, speaking to business owners, accuses Democrats of wanting MS-13 members in the country because they purportedly view them as "potential voters" for Democrats
Trump, slurring, says he's "happiest" about low African American unemployment because of his dire campaign messaging.

"Remember, I'd go around & say what you have to lose? The Democrats have always been with you, vote for me, bad education, the most unsafe parts of the country."
Trump falsely calls his tax cuts "the biggest" in American history, says he thinks Democrats will lose elections this November because they didn't support them
TRUMP: "I said 'what's the word reform? What does that mean? Does that mean you're going to raise taxes?'... I said 'no, I don't want to go reform. Nobody knows what reform means,' then I look back at all the times they tried to pass tax cuts, they don't use the words 'tax cut.'"
Trump's word salad about China: "They've taken so much. It's time. We are going to get smart & we're going to do it right & we are actually getting a lot of support, but we have to do something. Maybe something happens where they come in they say 'we agree, it's been unfair'"
TRUMP, ranting: "People and are able to go around and look for jobs. They're just not taking the job and they hate, hate it. Hate to wake up in the morning. They don't want to go to work. Now they've got their choice. They have jobs that they can look and they can love."
Trump criticizes cancer-stricken John McCain for voting against ACA repeal. Unlike many of his other speeches, crowd doesn't take the bait and boo this time.
This is Trump's hand motion for "crossing state lines"
TRUMP on health care: "For 1st time ever, sole proprietors will be able to come together & buy lower cost group insurance instead of getting ripped off by this disaster we all know as Obamacare. These actions will result in very low prices, much more choice, much more freedom."
Trump jokes he now says "humankind" instead of "mankind" because wants to be politically correct
Trump on his "Space Force": "If you see what I did yesterday with NASA, and you have the Air Force and now you will soon have the Space Force because that's where it's at. Space. That's where it's at. We will be the leader."
Trump closes w/this: "We are restoring prosperity. You see in GDP, you've seen what projections are, who knows? Numbers nobody ever thought possible. I look so forward to seeing some of those, but you see what projections are. Ppl are projecting numbers nobody thought possible."
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