Posted on 10/21/2024 2:51:41 PM PDT by KingofZion
*** Mr. Gigot asks how Mr. Trump would persuade Xi Jinping to stand down from a blockade of Taiwan.
“Oh, very easy,” the former president says. “I had a very strong relationship with him....
*** Mr. Trump returns to Mr. Gigot’s question: “I would say: If you go into Taiwan, I’m sorry to do this, I’m going to tax you”—meaning impose tariffs—“at 150% to 200%.” He might even shut down trade altogether.
Mr. Gigot: “Would you use military force against a blockade on Taiwan?”
Mr. Trump: “I wouldn’t have to, because he respects me and he knows I’m f— crazy.”
***Vladimir Putin knows it too, in Mr. Trump’s telling: “I said to Putin, ‘Vladimir, we have a great relationship.’ I got along with him great. He’s a different kind of a character, I will tell you, much different than anybody.... I said, ‘Vladimir, if you go after Ukraine, I am going to hit you so hard, you’re not even going to believe it. I’m going to hit you right in the middle of fricking Moscow.’ I said, ‘We’re friends. I don’t want to do it, but I have no choice.’ He goes, ‘No way.’ I said, ‘Way.’ I said, ‘You’re going to be hit so hard, and I’m going to take those f— domes right off your head.’ Because, you know, he lives under the domes.”
Lately Mr. Trump’s detractors have been speculating about his “mental decline.” There’s no sign of such slippage in our Thursday meeting. The 2024 Trump seems more confident and is certainly more knowledgeable about policy than he was in 2015. His discursive style of talking can confuse listeners, but that was equally true nine years ago, and he never appears lost in his thoughts the way President Biden repeatedly did in their June debate.
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Can you imagine “Faceload” Harris doing an unscripted interview without fake “news” outlets like CBS around to clean up after her?
“I wouldn’t have to, because he respects me and he knows I’m f— crazy.”
This is called strategic ambiguity.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t shut down trade, because it would cripple us more than the Chicoms, because so much in our major supply chains come just from them. Really big tariffs, I could see. I could also see Malaysia and Indonesia relabeling Red Chinese goods to get around it at a healthy markup. That’s not Trump’s fault. WTO for the ChiComs was a huge blunder. That’s on Bush/Clinton.
He goes, ‘No way.’ I said, ‘Way.’ and he says, ‘Gnarly dude’....
Seize EVERY Chinese-owned asset in this country(like we did with German in both world wars) And China would back down.
Paul Gigot is a friendly.
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