"Republicans will go on television and lie about everything from refugees eating pets to children demanding litter boxes in schools, but they will be honest & respectful about our policy goals if we make them conservative enough" is, has always been, and will always be willfully obtuse AT BEST.

It's just enormously important to understand that the goal of this tariff policy isn't to raise money or to increase manufacturing in the United States. The goal is to make some of the nation's largest companies subject to Trump's personal discretion and dependent on his favor.

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Elon created a counterintelligence nightmare:“Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk of being terminated, who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy.“