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Trump threatens China with new $100 billion tariff plan
President Donald Trump ratcheted up the trade war rhetoric with China on Thursday evening, saying he was considering another wave of steep tariffs on the country’s exports to the United States.
Trump’s latest tariff threat was met with criticism from members of his own Republican party. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse called the move “the dumbest possible way to do this.”
“Hopefully the President is just blowing off steam again but, if he’s even half-serious, this is nuts,” he said in a statement.
“China is guilty of many things, but the President has no actual plan to win right now. He’s threatening to light American agriculture on fire,” Sasse added.
US retailers also slammed Trump’s announcement, accusing him of “playing a game of chicken with the nation’s economy.”
“I don’t really understand what is left of your case.”
At Manafort’s first case hearing on Wednesday, things didn’t seem to be going too well. “I don’t really understand what is left of your case,” federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson said, pointing to a court filing from Mueller’s team discussing its mandate.
If Manafort doesn’t win his civil suit, he’ll have to face criminal charges, which include a maximum jail time of 305 years combined. Manafort is the only Trump campaign figure charged as part of the Russia probe who hasn’t agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
Trump revives his false campaign claim about Mexicans being rapists
It’s not even clear who the president believes is doing the raping or to whom — whether he meant people in the caravan are raping women, or that Mexican citizens are raping women in the caravan, or even that people in the caravan would rape women in the U.S. if they crossed the southern border. Still, the main takeaway from his remarks appears to be the White House drawing a direct line from immigrants to an increase in rape, even though there is no evidence that any of that is true.
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