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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow does Trump personally make large sums of money from the tariffs?
He does nothing that does not benefit him directly.
Bribes, extortion cash, shorting the market, etc etc?
What else?
JBTaurus83
(872 posts)People from other countries will stay at his hotels, buy Mar-A-Lardo memberships, spend at his golf course etc, in order to get his ear on various tariffs. Just one of my guesses based on his first term.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)Ocelot II
(129,011 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,734 posts)Exemptions for sinners, promises of not going to hell for wrong doing.
Ocelot II
(129,011 posts)Yesterday Cory Booker nailed his ninety-five theses to the White House door, and a Reformation is coming.
Irish_Dem
(79,734 posts)Here's hoping history repeats itself.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)Ocelot II
(129,011 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,734 posts)to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church on October 31, 1517.
It was a pivotal event in history, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation and is a symbol of resistance against the Roman Catholic Church.
It is an allegory, a metaphor for Booker's speech, who is offering resistance to the Trump regime. Ocelot did it cleverly by incorporating my comparing Trump's cash tariff exemptions to the pope selling indulgences.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)...and thought perhaps there were specific points -- sorted out from 25+ hours of oratory -- that could stand alone as a short list (not 95) of key points or indictments. Something perhaps rhetorically succinct and yet evocative of Luther's challenge to the corrupt status quo.
In any event, Bravo Senator Booker!