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The excerpt directly quotes Trump saying he did not know about the point, that the US is repressive too, that it gets fake news, and that it does not repress while the press writes fake news. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Transcript: White House Oval Office Q&A on the press ban, September 18, 2026 (via Newsmax's The Record) · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:beb9eba4056a5e8e4bad7da48361393c8d3d29cf73c686a02f490a90b698a378

KEMP: President Xi's coming here next week.
TRUMP: A great honor.
KEMP: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world. What signal is it sending that you're [INAUDIBLE].
TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think — I think we're repressive also. We get fake news. We don't — we don't repress. But they write fake news.