Trump Makes Bold Claims Over Base 

Former President Donald Trump stated during a press conference on Thursday that his base represents 75% of the country, extending well beyond the Republican Party.

“A lot of my people, a lot of the MAGA as they call them, but the base, and I think the base is — I think the base is 75% of the country, far beyond the Republican Party, because we’re a party of common sense,” Trump insisted.

TRUMP: On taxes, the border and national security, Donald Trump believes his supporter base "is actually 75 percent of the country."

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Trump explained that this broad support influenced his decision not to pursue legal action against former challenger Hillary Clinton, arguing that doing so would have further divided the nation. However, he pointed out that when the situation was reversed, Democrats did not show the same restraint, instead launching an all-out effort against him.

“And she [Hillary Clinton] did a lot of very bad things. I’ll tell you what she was. She was pretty evil, but in terms of the country, and in terms of unifying the country, bringing it back, to have taken her and to have put her in jail … there were some pretty bad acts that she did. I think it would have been very bad for our country,” Trump said.

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The former president went on to criticize his Democratic opponents over their handling of Russia and China.

“I want to have low taxes. I want to have strong borders. I want to have a strong military so that China and Russia — look, they’ve allowed China and Russia to do the impossible combined. Natural enemies, they always have been. Because China needs more land, and Russia has it. They’ve always been natural enemies and because of Obama — started with him, and then Biden, because he didn’t know what the hell he was doing — they’ve now become one force,” the former president said. “And then now they’re adding Iran to it, and they’re adding North Korea to it, pretty powerful force. This is something that is unthinkable that they allowed to happen.”