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President Donald Trump He claimed unilaterally imposed import taxes Americans claiming to have “resolved” “most” of seven conflicts since returning to office have been granted undefined emergency powers.
The president made the insane statement during a marathon press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday with FBI Director Kash Patel and other Justice Department officials, who boasted about the Trump administration’s efforts to combat violent crime last summer.
After this a reporter started asking Trump if he intended to take his point forward. Ongoing trade war with China If his planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Korea next month went poorly, Trump did not respond directly, instead focusing on defending his use of tariffs — about which he makes frequent and false claims. paid by foreign countries Instead of American importers.
“If we don’t have tariffs, we will be exposed as having nothing. We will have no defense… If we don’t have tariffs, we will have no national security,” trump Said.
He then offered a shocking example of how he was negotiating a trade deal with “Iran and Pakistan” – apparently meaning to say “India and Pakistan” – and said that the two countries “wanted to negotiate very differently” because of his use of tariffs.
“And then I heard they were shooting at each other, and I said during one of my conversations, are you guys going to war? If you do war. I’m going to put a 200 percent tariff. I’m going to stop you from doing any business in the United States. I said it to both of them. Within 24 hours the war was over. That would have been a nuclear war,” the president said.
Trump further said that controversial import taxwhich are currently the subject of a Supreme Court case over the use of emergency powers to enforce them without congressional interference, are important not only because of the revenue they bring to the treasury from the pockets of American taxpayers, but because they give them “the power to preserve the peace” and “a power to be used for good.”
“If we don’t win that case, we’re going to be in a weak, troubled financial position for many years to come,” he said.
“I was talking about seven of the eight wars, I would say tariffs are directly responsible for ending six, five or six of them. Without tariffs, you have wars going on all over the world.”
He said the plaintiffs in the lawsuit seeking to overturn his use of emergency powers to impose tariffs — which include a U.S. educational toy importer and several U.S. states — “are people who are in league with foreign countries who are now being treated fairly, not just extorting us and tearing us apart.”