Trump undermines his OWN trade war
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Trump caves on the single most important element of his tariff policies. Brian interviews Senator Cory Booker about his 25 hour speech and the impact of Trump’s economic warfare; Senator Elizabeth Warren about the possibility of an insider trading scandal in the White House; Senator Brian Schatz about the move he pulled to slow down Republican progress; and journalist Ari Berman about what a spate of special elections suggests about midterms.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about Trump caving on the single most important element of his |
| 0:04.3 | tariff policies. |
| 0:05.7 | And I've got four interviews this week. |
| 0:07.2 | I talked to Senator Cory Booker about his 25-hour speech and the impact of Trump's |
| 0:11.1 | economic warfare on Americans. |
| 0:13.5 | Senator Elizabeth Warren about the possibility of an insider trading scandal in the White |
| 0:16.8 | House. |
| 0:17.8 | Senator Brian Schatz about the move he pulled to slow down Republican progress, |
| 0:25.4 | and journalist Ari Berman about what a spate of special election suggests about midterms. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:34.6 | So I'm going to do something that I never do. I'm going to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. I'm going to assume, if only for a moment, that he was |
| 0:38.6 | telling the truth when he said that the whole point of this trade war and the subsequent economic |
| 0:43.1 | crash was to take it to China and re-shore American jobs and restore our greatness and to make |
| 0:49.6 | America great again. Humor me for this thought experiment, and let's pretend for a moment that he is |
| 0:54.4 | acting in good faith when he says that sure we've got to contend with a little bit of pain |
| 0:58.4 | because it's just that important to box out China and protect ourselves on the global stage. |
| 1:04.0 | He seems to really mean it, right? After all, why else would you crash the global economy if you |
| 1:09.3 | weren't absolutely bought in? |
| 1:11.6 | Well, now enjoy this latest excerpt from an article in the New York Times. |
| 1:16.7 | After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, |
| 1:20.4 | the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that spared smartphones, computers, |
| 1:25.5 | semiconductors, and other electronics from some of the fees in a |
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