Why The HELL Does Donald Trump Want To Save Chinese Jobs?
May 16, 2018
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as posted by the channelIn this Majority Report clip, we delve into Donald Trump's new endeavor: saving jobs in China!
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---When Donald Trump was running for president, there was no greater boogeyman, aside from “crooked” Hillary Clinton and Mexico, than China, which he insisted was “raping our country” and stealing American jobs. “We’ve lost, over a fairly short period of time, 60,000 factories in our country—closed, shuttered, gone. Six million jobs, at least, gone [to China],” he claimed on more than one occasion. So strongly did he believe that the U.S. was getting screwed by the Chinese, particularly on trade, that in March, he used the dubious argument of “national security” to impose tariffs on aluminum and steel and then, separately, to threaten Beijing with an additional $150 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods. Given his previous rhetoric, and the current state of negotiations with China—not great, despite Steve Mnuchin’s rosy outlook—you probably would not expect President America First to announce that he was using all the powers of the U.S. government to save a Chinese company from closing and losing 75,000 jobs. But: surprise!---
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