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Is Trump Using His Shock Tariffs for Insider Trading? (integ.substack.com)

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Originally Posted By u/VarunTossa5944 At 2025-04-04 03:04:48 PM | Source

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[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

The article itself doesn't provide many new insights IMHO except for this quote by Senator Chris Murphy that I found quite interesting:

You have to understand that everything that Donald Trump is doing is in service of him staying in power forever [...] That’s why he’s going law firm by law firm, university by university, trying to bully them into pledging loyalty to him. The tariffs are used to do the same thing to private industry. Why are the tariffs so widespread? So that every business in this country has to come to the White House and make an agreement with Trump, in which he gives them tariff relief in exchange for a pledge of political loyalty.