Risky politics? Trump wields his tariffs as a weapon at home
NEW YORK (AP) ” His trade war already raging worldwide, President Donald Trump on Friday brandished his aggressive actions as a political weapon at home, too, casting himself as a fighter for American workers and scorning his chief Democratic rivals as weak.Trump’s actions have already caused economic harm to some of the regions that backed him in 2016 . Yet the Republican president is showing little regard for the political risks ” or his party’s traditional embrace of free trade ” […]
