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What you need to know (and didn’t read) about Trump’s new tariffs

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By Dan Froomkin Verified
| Press Watch
The first thing you need to know about Trump’s sweeping new tariffs is that they are based on a bald-faced lie. No one believes that Trump gives a damn about other countries’ steps to curb forced labor. That’s the ostensible legal justification. It’s absurd. The second thing you need to know is that, like his insane “liberation day” tariffs, they are presumptively illegal and likely to be overturned. (Hey guess what?
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When fact-checking is not enough

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By Dan Froomkin Verified
| Press Watch
Most mainstream news organizations did an admirable job of fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech full of election lies Thursday night. That was a pleasant surprise. Quite a few of them even plainly stated that Trump was trying to sow doubts about the legitimacy of U.S. elections. Also good. But most of them whiffed when it came to answering the all-important question: Why is he doing this? That answer is essential to understanding the extraordinary dangers ahead.
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The headlines should have been: ‘Trump makes crackpot Iran announcement’

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By Dan Froomkin Verified
| Press Watch
Well, it’s moot now, with Donald Trump this morning reversing his big announcement yesterday morning that the U.S. military would be taking over the Strait of Hormuz and demanding a 20 percent toll from ships that pass through it. As it happens, I was just finishing up a post about how credulous the first-day coverage of his crackpot plan was. And now that I’ve been proven right, I still feel there’s some value in sharing what I found.
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