To: Brumar89 who wrote (1101954 ) 11/27/2018 2:30:27 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Trump struggles to understand the basics of his own tariffs policySteve Benen boasted at a White House event that thanks to his tariffs, there’s “a lot of money coming into the coffers of the United States of America. A lot of money coming in.” Soon after, the president released a video via social media in which he said Americans are “taking in a lot of money” as a result of his tariffs.Wall Street Journal that the tariffs he’d spoken about for months may not actually exist. “We don’t even have tariffs,” Trump said , adding, “Where do we have tariffs? We don’t have tariffs anywhere.”switched back to his original position.assuring Americans that the fight will be “easy” to win, the president is still confused about the basics of his own policy.There is no foreign money “coming into the coffers of the United States” from China as a result of the tariffs. As Politico recently explained , “President Donald Trump said Monday that China is paying the U.S. billions of dollars in tariffs as he ramps up his trade war with Beijing. But that’s inaccurate: American consumers and businesses are the ones who will be paying higher costs for imports after he slapped penalties on $200 billion in Chinese goods.”this is the principal presidential defense of his entire policy: Trump has told Americans, repeatedly over the course of several months, that “billions” of dollars are filling U.S. coffers from Beijing. It’s proof, according to the Republican, that his entire strategy has merit.Either the president doesn’t know this, in which case his entire trade gambit is being driven by his profound ignorance, or Trump understands the details perfectly well, and he’s just brazenly lying to the public, hoping Americans won’t know the difference.
