Trump’s Scam on Tariffs Wrecked in Surprise Moment from Stephen Miller
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. |
| 1:02.1 | One of President Trump's top advisors, Stephen Miller, made a surprising admission this week. |
| 1:08.8 | According to the Wall Street Journal, Miller privately worried about imposing overly aggressive tariffs on Mexico because it could imperil the work that Mexico is doing to |
| 1:12.3 | apprehend migrants traveling north to our southern border. That's pretty striking. Understood |
| 1:18.4 | correctly, it's actually an acknowledgement that Mexico already is cracking down on migration |
| 1:24.3 | due to an arrangement secured by, you guessed it, President Biden. |
| 1:29.6 | That badly undermines some of Trump's biggest claims about immigration, tariffs, Mexico, |
| 1:35.3 | and a lot more. So today we're going to look at what Mexico has actually been doing on immigration |
| 1:40.2 | and why it undercuts Trump's scams on tariffs and on his supposed huge recent victory over Mexico. |
| 1:48.3 | We have a great guest to do that with, Adam Isaacson, a very sharp expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, an advocacy group. |
| 1:56.6 | Thanks for coming on, Adam. |
| 1:58.2 | Thank you, Greg. It's great to be on with you. |
| 2:00.7 | Okay, so Trump appeared ready to go forward with 25% tariffs on Mexico, but he's temporarily held back. |
| 2:07.8 | I want to read from this Wall Street Journal piece. |
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