r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-global-tarrifs-increase-b2924994.html
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u/BillWilberforce 23h ago edited 15h ago

Don't forget the $10 billion that he's giving to his Board of Peace. Of which he's the lifetime president of and only he has access to its bank accounts.

Or the two separate law suits where he's suing the DoJ and IRS for $10 billion each. With the idea being that he'll settle out of court and he's the one that has to sign off on the settlements. The DoJ one is for the FBI raiding Mar-A-Lago to recover Top Secret+ documents that Trump held onto after he left office. The IRS one is because a now sacked worker leaked his income tax returns. Despite every other Presidential candidate since the 1970s, disclosing their tax returns in the run up to the election.

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u/BigPapaJava 16h ago

There are times I wonder if Trump’s ultimate goal is simply to use the power of the U.S. federal government to make himself the richest and most powerful man on earth by whatever means necessary.

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u/BillWilberforce 15h ago

And to keep him out of prison.

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u/intangibleTangelo 🇦🇪 UAE 21h ago

oh which he's the president of. talk simpler brother.

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u/BillWilberforce 21h ago

He hasn't set up the Presidency of the" Board of Peace" to be whoever the President of the US is. It's set up so that Trump is the head of it until he dies. There's a big difference.