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  • Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect

    04/10/2025 4:50:40 AM PDT · by karpov · 48 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 9, 2025 | Annie Linskey, Josh Dawsey, and Meridith McGraw
    President Trump finally blinked. It took a week for the plunge in the stock and bond markets—along with a sustained campaign by executives, lawmakers, lobbyists and foreign leaders—to prompt Trump to roll back for 90 days a major element of his sweeping tariff plan. The president said that the reaction to the tariffs was getting a bit “yippy”—like a nervous athlete unable to perform—and he relied on his instincts to change course as he watched the bond market tank and listened to business leaders including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon express fears of a recession. The episode was classic Trump:...
  • The 27-Year-Old Press Secretary Who ‘Speaks Trump Fluently’

    02/16/2025 5:09:04 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 58 replies
    WSJ via MSN ^ | Feb 15, 2025 | Joshua Chaffin, Meridith McGraw
    It takes loyalty to rise in Donald Trump’s world. And on Saturday, July 13, Karoline Leavitt demonstrated it in uncommon fashion. As she tells it, Trump’s then-campaign spokeswoman had only just carried her 3-day-old baby boy home from the hospital when she switched on the television to watch her boss’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa. It turned out to be the fateful event at which a would-be assassin’s bullet clipped Trump’s ear. Almost immediately, according to Leavitt, she and her husband decided: She would scrap a planned maternity leave and go back to work, which she did four days later....
  • ‘Best-case scenario’ for Trump as rivals refuse to drop out (so enjoyable to read their frustration)

    12/17/2023 5:42:00 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 19 replies
    Politico ^ | 12/17/23 | LISA KASHINSKY, NATALIE ALLISON and MERIDITH MCGRAW
    DURHAM, New Hampshire — First Donald Trump’s Republican critics banked on one of his opponents catching a spark in Iowa. Then they said New Hampshire was where they’d make their mark. Eventually, advisers to Trump’s rivals maintained, someone would emerge from the field of lower-polling candidates to get a clear shot at Trump. After the past week, that idea has never looked more out of reach. In Iowa, new polling shows Trump not only maintaining his enormous lead in the first caucus state, but expanding on it — stretching his support to 51 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. And in...