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Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
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Again, ANYONE, including donvict, claiming that he had some kind of awful economic issues to deal with is gaslighting you.
He was handed an economy that was the envy of the world, and in short order, started to rip it to shreds, putting forth these "solutions" to problems that existed only in HIS mind. If anything, donvict seems hellbent on triggering another depression.
Not to mention that Tarrifs are thought to have contributed to the length and global reach of the depression. Tarrifs may not have caused the great depression but they absolutely extended it.
https://fee.org/articles/the-smoot-hawley-tariff-and-the-great-depression/