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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, July 27, 2016.
Donald Trump told CNBC on Thursday that Obamacare, high taxes, and regulation are stifling business in the United States.
The GOP presidential nominee said regulations are “making it virtually impossible to start new businesses and a lot of old businesses are being hurt very badly.”
“Obamacare is devastating businesses, I get it all the time,” he said.
Trump’s comments came Thursday morning in a phone interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” during a stretch in which he has sought to focus on his campaign’s economic message amid a series of controversies.
The Republican presidential nominee has spent much of this week fighting off criticism for comments he made about the Second Amendment interpreted by some as suggesting violence against Hillary Clinton. Clinton called him out on the remarks Wednesday, saying Trump’s “casual inciting of violence” shows he does not have the temperament to be president.
Late last week Trump announced his team of economic policy advisers, which featured a number of high-profile financiers including hedge fund titan John Paulson. On Monday, Trump gave a speech in Detroit laying out his economic vision, which included a significant change to his tax plan.
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