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Donald Trump says Bernie Sanders lied about Trump's stance on the minimum wage during his Monday night address at the Democratic National Convention.

“Well he lied last night, I mean it was a total lie and everybody said it," Trump said during a Tuesday interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. "In fact, some of the folks on your network said 'wow that was really a lie;' he said that I wanted to go less than minimum wage — this is a new one because I’m the one Republican that said in some cases we have to go more than minimum wage, but what I like is states.”


Addressing Trump on Monday night, Sanders declared, "He does not support raising the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour — a starvation wage. While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25. What an outrage."

Asked by O'Reilly what he would set as the minimum wage, Trump suggested individual states determine the wage rates.

“Let me give you a concept because I think it’s a good concept," Trump said. "You go with the states — let the states make the determination because if you take New York it’s very expensive to live in New York, they need more than you know seven, eight, nine dollars. So you go with the states and let the states make the determination.”

Hillary Clinton has employed a similar argument in supporting increases to minimum wage, beginning at $12 at the federal level as means toward getting to $15. Sanders, meanwhile, consistently advocated for a $15 minimum wage.

“There doesn’t have to be — we’ll I would leave it and raise it somewhat. You need to help people and I know it’s not very Republican to say but you need to help people," Trump remarked. “I would say $10, but with the understanding that somebody like me is going to bring back jobs, I don’t want people to be in that ten dollar category for very long. But the thing is, Bill, let the states make the deal — they’re not doing that for the most part.”

Trump continued, “I believe it should be raised but when Bernie Sanders said that I want to go less than what the minimum wage — I mean honestly Bill, these people are lying so much and every fact checker said Trump never said that. I never did say it.”

As far as whether he has ever spoken to Sanders, Trump responded by questioning the senator's endurance and predicting his supporters would vote Trump in the fall.

“No I haven’t. He’s a tired man, he’s exhausted — I think frankly in terms of his legacy he totally folded," Trump said. “You know what for his legacy, he would’ve been better playing it out. He’s exhausted — he wants to go home and go to bed. But a lot of the Bernie Sanders people are gonna come to me you know why, because I’m the best there is on trade and I’m gonna make new trade deals and we’re gonna bring our jobs back to our country.”