"We have to take it back," Trump declared to Newsmax's John Bachman in an interview before his massive rally in Florence, Arizona, Saturday. "What they're doing with the open borders, the judges, and all of the things they've been doing is so sad … we've got to win the House and I think we can win the Senate also. We should win the House, maybe handily, and I think we should win the Senate."
The withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden was also a low point for the country last year, Trump relayed in the interview, which aired Monday on Newsmax.
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"We were coming out strong, with dignity, and there's never been a lower point than what happened with Afghanistan," stated Trump.
Meanwhile, there were some chants in Saturday's crowd regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci, demanding to "lock him up." Trump told Bachman that the doctor, who is now Biden's chief medical adviser, has "done some pretty poor work."
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He revealed that Fauci wanted him to keep the United States open to China and Europe in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and if that had happened, "we would have lost hundreds of thousands more people."
Trump pressed that Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and served on his White House's Coronavirus Task Force, "wasn't a big factor in my Administration."
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"Biden has made him a big factor and they have done a horrible job on COVID, or the China virus, as I call it," lamented Trump. "They've done a horrible job."
If he were still in the White House, Trump said that there would be "no mandates" on COVID, like the ones Biden has enacted.
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"The mandates are killing our economy," he exclaimed. "I'm convinced that when you have supply chain problems, you can't get paper, you can't get lumber, they can't build houses, they have no nails, they have nothing. I think to start off with, the mandates are a disaster."
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People aren't working, argued Trump, and "you can't get people to work because of the mandates."
He added that the first thing he would do would be to end COVID mandates because that would "help straighten the economy."
The former president also said he'd push to return the United States to energy independence.
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The former President also claimed that "somebody got a lot of money" when Democrats and Biden rejected a call from Sen. Ted Cruz for legislation to sanction Russia over the Nord Stream II pipeline from Russia into Germany.
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"We had it stopped," said Trump. "It's also very bad for Europe. If we get into fisticuffs it's going to be pretty bad, if they [the Russians] say, 'guess what, we're turning off your energy.' "
Before speaking to the crowd in Arizona, Trump further commented that the border remains the most important election issue for Arizona voters.
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