Trump said to back $200B in China tariffs as early as next week

MSN ^ | 8-30-2018 | Jennifer Jacobs, Shawn Donnan, Andrew Mayeda and Saleha Mohsin

[WashingtonSource]

I don’t mean to suggest the $200 billion in new tariffs is “fake.” That’s real. What Bloomberg did was to insert a report anonymously that the tariffs against China could come as soon as next week at a delicate point in the negotiations with the Canadians. Their motive is quite transparent. They wanted to throw a wrench into those talks and prevent a Trump victory on Friday that would have sent the markets soaring.

After that anonymous report, Bloomberg did something even worse. They leaked an “off the record” comment from Trump that he was refusing to compromise with the Canadians, spooking the Canadian negotiators and causing the market to tank. It was Bloomberg deliberately trying to derail the talks, IMHO. The markets recovered by the end of the day when the U.S. reported that Canada was in their 90 day notice submitted to Congress on Friday, with the hope that an agreement could be reached by then, an outcome a Reuters opinion columnist (Gina Chon) called a “win win win.”

It still irks me that a goofy-looking America-hating Brit socialist, John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, is behind this plot. What is it about American publishers who think that a British accent confers some sort of intellectual stature no matter how scatter brain the comments might be emanating from their mouths? I’m talking about you Michael Bloomberg!

Then Bloomberg had the gall to say after being called out by Trump as “dishonorable” that they always honor their pledges to keep “off the record” comments out of their reports.

What a blatant lie! Bloomberg SUCKS. Their “News” is just an endless stream of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Even more outrageous than their dishonorable treatment of Trump, one of their TDS idiot opinion writers — Conor Sen — thinks that if Trump were impeached, the markets would soar in response. (This was written just to burst Trump’s balloon when he said the markets would crash if he were impeached).

And Bloomberg published this delusional TDS trash! See opinion piece here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-23/after-trump-impeachment-expect-an-economic-recovery?utm_content=view&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

Only a deranged TDS-consumed editor would think that Conor Sen’s opinion piece was worthy of serious consideration for publication. That would be the very same Micklethwait.

[daniel1212]

I don’t mean to suggest the $200 billion in new tariffs is “fake.” That’s real. What Bloomberg did was to insert a report anonymously that the tariffs against China could come as soon as next week at a delicate point in the negotiations with the Canadians.

Of course the reporting is crafted in the interest of liberal goals, and I think liberals are hoping for the expected tariffs to be implemented in the hopes that it will greatly damage the economy in time for the mid-term elections. Which is certainly not what I want to see happen. Pray, wait and see.