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Jimvanhise

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1. TARIFFS VICTIMIZE AMERICANS

Reply to Joinfortmill (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 10:49 AM

Jul 8

Last night Lawrence O'Donnell took the mainstream media to task for refusing to point out that foreign countries do not pay Trump's tariffs, Americans do. Americans pay the tariffs in order to access imported goods. When Trump says China, Japan or Canada pay the tariffs, he is lying through his teeth and no one at the White House press conferences ever ask Trump about this.

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