Donald Trump has accused Ireland of using tax policies to lure away companies from the US.
Speaking in the Oval Office next to the Irish premier Micheál Martin, he criticised Ireland’s use of its tax system to attract pharmaceutical and other companies.
He said: “We do have a massive deficit with Ireland because Ireland was very smart. They took our pharmaceutical companies away from presidents that didn’t know what they were doing and it’s too bad that happened.”
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