his own people. ‘The time to have done it would have been when he drew the line in the sand,’ he said. ‘I might have gone in.’” [CBS News, 10/11/15] Donald Trump Said He Would Send Syrian Refugees Back To Syria If He Were Elected. “Mr. Trump also said he was skeptical of the refugees who are fleeing war-torn Syria in droves. ‘Now I hear we want to take in 200,000 Syrians,’ Mr. Trump said, to some boos in the crowd. ‘They could be ISIS.’ Mr. Trump said he would not want those refugees to remain in the United States if they are admitted here. ‘If I win,’ he said, ‘they’re going back.’” [New York Times, 9/30/15] VIETNAM TRUMP WAS “NOT A BELIEVER” IN THE VIETNAM WAR Trump On Not Being Drafted: “I Was Fortunate, In A Sense, Because I Was Not A Believer In The Vietnam War. That Was Another War That Was A Disaster For This Country.” “Trump said he had student deferments during the Vietnam War, as well as a ‘minor medical deferment’ for a bone spur of the foot. ‘I was then entered into the draft because if I would have gotten a different number, I could have been drafted,’ he said. ‘I was fortunate, in a sense, because I was not a believer in the Vietnam War. That was another war that was a disaster for this country. Lives and money and it’s disgraceful what happened with the Vietnam War. I was not a fan of the Vietnam War. But I was entered into the draft and I got a very, very high draft number.’” [The Hill, 7/19/15] ECONOMIC ISSUES GREAT RECESSION MARCH 2007: DONALD TRUMP SAID THE 2007 REAL ESTATE COLLAPSE WOULD BE “VERY MINOR” AND ENCOURAGED INVESTOR TO PURCHASE SUBPRIME MORTGAGES 3/19/07: Donald Trump Said The 2007 Real Estate Collapse Would Be “Very Minor” And That He Was Poised To Take Advantage Of Falling Real Estate Values. “Donald Trump almost lost his shirt 15 years ago when the North American real estate bubble burst. The 2007 version of that disaster will be much more benign, the real estate magnate predicts, although there is softness in some urban markets, such as Toronto and San Francisco. ‘We're talking very minor [problems] compared with the depression of the early 1990s,’ Mr. Trump said yesterday in a phone interview from Los Angeles. Mr. Trump said he is poised to invest in depressed property as the downturn moves through individual cities. ‘People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I'm excited if it is,’ he said. ‘I've always made more money in bad markets than in good markets.’” [Globe and Mail, 3/20/07] 3/19/07: Donald Trump Advised Investors To Purchase Subprime Mortgages And Repossessed Houses At Low Prices. “Mr. Trump shrugged off concerns that a crisis in U.S. subprime mortgage lending, which caters to poor credit risks, would spread to the wider property Confidential Page 99