"Border security" was always a canard. Trump needed to trump up an emergency to levy tariffs without a law going through congress first. If what his deputy chief of staff said yesterday is true and, "[T]he best way to understand President Trumpβs position is to take what he says at face value," then the goal of the tariffs is to cow us into accepting annexation. Failing that, it's certainly at best a shakedown to force us into a bad deal that enriches the US at our expense.
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I mean, it's entirely a given considering that he can't even remember the excuse he used the last time he complained. Every week he changes the reason and meanders all over the place. It's not the reason he cares about, it's the profits he things he can get, especially since he doesn't pay an American penny to do so. It's the US public that's paying the entire way since the southern oligarchs are being paid out to cover their losses.
Trump isn't complaining, he's lying.
He always flips it to blame someone for what he is actually doing, and I can't see how his followers don't see it.
Itβs always projection with republicans.
Yup
The drugs and guns are to build an invincible fighting force of Mounties.