Transcript - Press Gaggle: Donald Trump Speaks to the Press Before Marine One Departure - September 30, 2020 | Factba.se

Donald Trump

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Okay, thank you very much. We're going to Minnesota. I thought the debate last night was great. We got tremendous reviews on it. We're hitting what people want -- law and order -- which Biden was unable to even talk about because he'd lose the radical left -- his radical-left followers. I don't think there's too many of them left.

Donald Trump

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But I thought it was a great evening. It was an exciting evening. I see the ratings were very high. And it was good to be there. It felt very comfortable. And I appreciate all the good words.

Donald Trump

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So we are going now, and we're going to have a big rally. A lot of people showing up.

Donald Trump

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Question

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Mr. President, can you explain what you meant last night when you said that the Proud Boys should "stand back and stand by"?

Donald Trump

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I don't know who the Proud Boys are. I mean, you'll have to give me a definition, because I really don't know who they are. I can only say they have to stand down, let law enforcement do their work. Law enforcement will do the work more and more. As people see how bad this radical, liberal, Democrat movement is and how weak -- the law enforcement is going to come back stronger and stronger.

Donald Trump

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But again, I don't know who Proud Boys are. But whoever they are, they have to stand down. Let law enforcement do their work.

Question

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So, Mr. President, did you misspeak when you said "stand by"? That's my -- my first question. When you said --

Donald Trump

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Just "stand by." Look, law enforcement will do their work. They're going to stand down. They have to stand down. Everybody -- they have to stand -- whatever group you're talking about, let law enforcement do the work.

Donald Trump

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Now, Antifa is a real problem, because the problem is on the left and Biden refuses to talk about it. He refuses to issue the words "law and order." And you saw that last night when he choked up. He can't say the words because he'll lose the rest of the left. So he's got to condemn Antifa. Antifa is a very bad group.

Question

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So, Mr. President, let me follow up: White supremacists, they clearly love you and support you. Do you welcome that?

Donald Trump

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I want law and order to be a very important part -- it's a very important part of my campaign. And when I say that, what I'm talking about is law enforcement has to -- the police have to take care. And they should stop defunding the police like they've done in New York --

Question

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But I'm talking about white supremacists, sir.

Donald Trump

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-- like they've done in New York. I just told you.

Question

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But do you denounce them? Do you denounce white supr- --

Donald Trump

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I've always denounced any form --

Question

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Of white supremacy?

Donald Trump

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Any form -- any form of any of that, you have to denounce.

Donald Trump

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But I also -- and Joe Biden has to say something about Antifa. It's not a philosophy. These are people that hit people over the head with baseball bats. He's got to come out and he's got to be strong, and he's got to condemn Antifa. And it's very important that he does that.

Question

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So looking at [inaudible] Joe Biden, can I follow up, sir, on that?

Question

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Mr. President, on the election, you are -- you claim that you -- that you have an -- your response to coronavirus --

Donald Trump

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I can't hear a word you're saying. I can't hear.

Question

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But -- no, but --

Question

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Will you -- will you debate again? Will you go ahead with the other two debates that are coming up? Will you debate again?

Donald Trump

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I hear he doesn't want to go forward. But that's up to him. I mean --

Question

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But what about you? Are you going forward?

Donald Trump

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I would -- yeah, I would like to. We -- by every measure, we won the debate easily last night. I think he was very weak.

Question

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Would you like to see any changes?

Donald Trump

00:03:02 - 00:03:19 (17 sec)

He looked weak. He was whining. Uh, yeah, we won the debate by almost every poll that I saw. If you look at the -- the various polls. And I looked at about six of them, and we won every one of them. So, no, I don't mind debating him. I hear he wants to get out of the debates. I don't know. That's up to him.

Question

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Sir, there's a lot of worry -- there's a lot of worry about the right-wing militias that are armed and going into the streets with weapons. Does that concern you that they go out there with their weapons and walk around in the streets?

Donald Trump

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Yeah, it does concern me. And crime generally concerns me -- any form of crime. And let law enforcement take care of it.

Question

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Mr. President, why are you afraid of the election? Why are you afraid of --

Donald Trump

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So we had a problem in New York. They have 100,000 ballots that are a mess. They're all confused, all mixed up. Now they say they're going to redo them, but what are they going to do with 100,000 ballots that have already been sent? This is exactly what I'm talking about. It's a big, big, big-scale problem.

Donald Trump

00:03:58 - 00:04:13 (15 sec)

A hundred thousand ballots went out to New York with the wrong names on the, wrong envelops, wrong addresses, wrong everything. And now they want to redo the ballots, but that doesn't help because what about the ones that are already sent? This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Question

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Can I follow up to that, Mr. President? If there was an apparent Joe Biden victory come the 20th of January and you --

Donald Trump

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There -- there won't be. There won't be.

Question

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Sir, what if there is? Would you challenge it?