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Trump says he'll personally decide who gets paid, and calls it "binding arbitration"

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Donald Trump, closing an Oval Office press availability, says he will be "the operator of all of these decisions" and will "determine whether or not the person is deserving." If people dispute a payment, he says, "I'll make the determination," and adds, "I'm not doing it for any other reasons other than to expedite."

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Who
Donald Trump
Where
briefing - Oval Office press availability
Original footage
ET Now · watch the full video from this moment
Length
53 seconds, unedited within the cut
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85 on Instagram
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And just before we go, I was just thinking, when I will be the operator of all of these decisions. In other words, I'll determine whether or not the person is deserving and I'll determine and I will be very generous, believe me. We're not looking to save on that, but we, you know, you could have disputes where You have three people come in and they say, I'm going to make it, we're going to make it like a binding arbitration. I'll make the determination. I will be, I promise you I'll be fair. And I'm not doing it for any other reasons other than to expedite because I think it's very important. But it'll be a binding arbitration. You'll get your money immediately, but I'll make the determination. So if two people are fighting over it, maybe they'll split it or maybe whatever. Bye. Bye. Bye.

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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