THREAD: Donald Trump says he wants to bring back manufacturing jobs in the US through his tariffs on China. Here's why they could have exactly the opposite effect: https://t.co/B12KX9R73r pic.twitter.com/MBY3WpRRCu
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 5, 2018
Republicans fear Trump's trade war could hurt them in the midterm elections, @DavidMDrucker reports.
China's retaliation is aimed at many Trump counties, and more educated swing voters might be alienated by Trump's volatile handling of the issue:https://t.co/9KlZizquZC
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 5, 2018
Pres. Trump: "For many years no president wanted to go against China economically, and we're going to do it." https://t.co/W8yknQXxsg pic.twitter.com/YkBfomkGkK
— ABC News (@ABC) April 5, 2018
The counties that produce the most crops that will face tariffs by China mostly voted for Trump. https://t.co/FwWYUJYBJn pic.twitter.com/CxMg4Al6g5
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 5, 2018
Trump doesn't know anything about anything. Unfortunately, China's leaders do. https://t.co/hrcLRIiEbw pic.twitter.com/se5TChFy7i
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 5, 2018
The great @EdwardGLuce on those easy to win trade wars… https://t.co/Nb82vc0WF0
— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) April 5, 2018
Wait I’m confused should I be rooting for Trump or China in this trade war
— Jonathan Riley (@JonRiley7) April 5, 2018
Meanwhile in Trumpworld…
JUST IN: President Trump says he did not know about $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, and tells reporters they would have to ask his attorney, Michael Cohen, why the payment was made, and adds that he does not know where Cohen obtained the money for the payment.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 5, 2018
Reporter: "Mr. President, did you know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels?"
President Trump: "No." pic.twitter.com/wHTR7o5lqB
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 5, 2018
These are the first public, on the record comments of any kind about @StormyDaniels from @realDonaldTrump – ethically where does this leave Michael Cohen? Making payments on behalf of his client but without client knowing?? https://t.co/YAZan4ZMk3
— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) April 5, 2018
Equally significant to the denial is Trump saying Cohen is his attorney, which some WH officials have privately contested. This makes attorney-client privilege assertion likelier. https://t.co/l9XXusurV7
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 5, 2018
We very much look forward to testing the truthfulness of Mr. Trump's feigned lack of knowledge concerning the $130k payment as stated on Air Force One. As history teaches us, it is one thing to deceive the press and quite another to do so under oath. #searchforthetruth #basta
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) April 5, 2018
https://t.co/B4zVErv9ZI The same guy that owns the Washington Post trying to get billions from the pentagon. Right….
— Isaac Green (@antischool_ftw) April 5, 2018
Trump says he’ll take “a very serious look” at Amazon https://t.co/i6r4pxe9pT
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) April 5, 2018
Even Fox News isn't buying Trump's bullsh*t about Amazon scamming the Post Office pic.twitter.com/3uj1xR5giQ
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 5, 2018
JUST IN: Multiple EPA officials were demoted after questioning Pruitt's spending: report https://t.co/iFW98xCIXZ pic.twitter.com/H3GMZqSSwR
— The Hill (@thehill) April 5, 2018
Pruitt: my staffers “serve a very important person.” You just cannot make this stuff up. https://t.co/RDHp3WixQB
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) April 5, 2018
This is an amazingly damning story for Pruitt. He tried, among other things, to use sirens on his motorcade when he was running late… for a dinner at @LeDiplomateDC. https://t.co/GBXcYws3py
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) April 5, 2018
President Donald Trump said Thursday that voter fraud is widespread and again claimed that "millions and millions" of votes were cast fraudulently. https://t.co/gMz0UB3xPm
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 5, 2018
This is the biggest lie of Trump's presidency and everyone should treat it as such https://t.co/IeOfylETYG
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 5, 2018
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BATSHIT BREXIT BRITAIN (AND NORN IRON)
"Their reasons may be different, but the end result is the same; the Tories are Brexit’s architect, Labour the handmaiden, and much of the country left wondering what on earth the opposition thinks its job actually is." https://t.co/jbvkuZCbNx
— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) April 5, 2018
Mr Redwood promising ‘punishment’ for business leaders opposing Brexit. But they wouldn’t anyway get reported on #BrexitBroadcastingCorporation https://t.co/PiINCdJSUm
— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) April 5, 2018
The leader of Northern Ireland's dominant unionist party has said that if there was a united Ireland she would probably leave the country. Most unionist politicians who I spoke to today – among them a DUP MP – said that in that scenario they would stay.https://t.co/QQr8wI6HpO
— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) April 5, 2018
Arlene Foster/DUP is saying she will leave the island of Ireland if unification comes. She has done nothing to sell an inclusive unionism. She could afford to leave,most couldn’t. What a mediocre politician she is. 🤔
— Paul Patrick (@PaulTyredagh81) April 4, 2018
Didn’t catch the Patrick Kielty programme, but I’m surprised Arlene Foster intends to leave Ireland in the event of a vote for reunification. Where’s she going? After all, it will have been a British Government that called the referendum in the first place.
— Kevin Meagher (@KevinPMeagher) April 5, 2018
So Arlene Foster would rather leave than live in a united Ireland… Obviously her Britishness is more important to her than her home. Not much you can do with that mindset
— equality for all (@italianirish81) April 4, 2018
Patrick Kielty: My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me – ‘I liked Arlene Forster. That confused me’ https://t.co/exOJktCTuE
— Irish Times Culture (@IrishTimesCultr) April 4, 2018
I wrote a Ladybird book about Brexit. Obviously this is a stopgap while I write my Proustian memoirs in long, meandering sentences. https://t.co/I9k1T48V5H
— The Irish Border (@BorderIrish) April 5, 2018
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WORLD
Russia warns UK officials they “are playing with fire’ https://t.co/UoL45K2I7x @mchancecnn reports @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 5, 2018
Astonishing @Facebook Sheryl Sandberg admission in FT interview “To this day we still don’t know what data Cambridge Analytica have ”
— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) April 5, 2018
Sinclair’s remarkable gaslighting operation https://t.co/tnobueOF4w by @ErikWemple
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 5, 2018
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) April 5, 2018
Fuck…
Report: Stan Lee's stolen blood was used to sign Marvel comics sold in Las Vegas https://t.co/T9NtEFHsMi pic.twitter.com/n1V6IW81Bs
— io9 (@io9) April 5, 2018
