"Nobody wanted to call it a subsidy. It wasn't a subsidy. It was really a targeting fee...."

"Thirty-five farmers. And they said 'sir, we don't want any money. We just want a level playing field.'"

Trump on bailouts to farmers hurt by his trade war: "Nobody wanted to call it a subsidy. It wasn't a subsidy. It was really a targeting fee, you could call it."

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