Posted on 04/01/2025 8:43:42 AM PDT by Mariner
Inside the White House, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been perhaps the biggest proponent of ”Liberation Day,” President Donald Trump’s promised unveiling of sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday. But as the day nears, the potential fallout from those tariffs may well liberate Lutnick from his role in the administration, according to half dozen people close to the White House.
While Americans and much of the world brace for a possible season of pain following the imposition of the new tranche of tariffs, Trump’s orbit is ready to play the blame game should things go poorly for the White House. And all the fingers will be pointing at Lutnick, two people close to the administration, granted anonymity to discuss the private dynamics, told POLITICO.
“I think people would take special pleasure in blaming him,” said one.
Lutnick spends substantial time in the Oval Office, hyping the president on his tariff strategy and “giving him bad advice — pushing more aggressive tariffs,” the person said.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remains the “measured voice” advocating targeted tariffs. Trade adviser Peter Navarro has never been shy about his affection for tariffs, but he’s a known quantity and isn’t seen as shaking anything up. By contrast, Lutnick is “a new voice at the table pushing crazy shit,” in the words of the person familiar with the situation. “I don’t know anyone that isn’t pissed off at him.”
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This is a hit piece citing unnamed pu$$ies/staffers that are terrified by change.
Sez Politico.
Tariffs will work just let 47 do what he does.
Pollutico spreading anonymously sourced gossip again.
What a surprise.
The “unnamed pu$$ies/staffers” may be fake.
This is politico.
BTTT
Politico via Yahoo -worthless trash.
What are they going to do?
The strategy appears to be taking out Trump's nominees one at a time.
Bessent said it best, ‘The American dream is not buying cheap stuff from China!’
Exactly.
Just because they say there were half a dozen doesn’t mean anything. Could be just one and they are covering for them or it could mean they made it all up and are covering for themselves.
Politico GASLIGHTING. It’s the only thing THEY have left in their toolbox.
Palace intrigue by Politico - I’m not buying it.
At the very least its leverage against nations who’ve taken advantage of us for decades and ideally it brings more manufacturing and investment back to the US.
“two people close to the administration, granted anonymity to discuss the private dynamics, told POLITICO.”
If an article has unnamed sources it is just propaganda to be ignored.
A “half of a dozen” scumbags leakers the President was not allowed to fire.
What a devious article, sowing a manufactured leftist narrative of strife and recrimination within the Trump Administration.
This is propaganda for the most serious woke believers
no matter what happens with the tariffs, and who knows— we couldn’t keep going along the same trajectory forever. The U.S. is broke as a joke. Trillions in debt and we’re being drained by a billion leeches. Something had to give.
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