Trump's defense of tariffs based on dubious claims

almost 5 years in Star Tribune

He's been contradicted by one of his top advisers, dinged in regular fact checks and called out by top economists. Still, President Donald Trump has held firm to dubious declarations about trade policy, raising questions among experts and even his allies about whether he either can't — or won't — grasp the fundamentals of the issue.

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