The great economist Paul Krugman put the point well in an interview that he gave today with the journalist Jim Acosta: "This is a plausible additional point in a 97-count indictment..."
I.e., the shocking incompetence and stupidity of Trump's actions around tariffs in the last week or so are wrong and deluded and objectionable in so many ways. If (as seems all-too-plausible) it also involved this specific kind of corruption, this is yet another reason to be horrified. But with a federal administration that is as deplorable as this one, it is frankly hard to keep count of all of these reasons for being horrified...
The great economist Paul Krugman put the point well in an interview that he gave today with the journalist Jim Acosta: "This is a plausible additional point in a 97-count indictment..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A5lCOWFEiI
I.e., the shocking incompetence and stupidity of Trump's actions around tariffs in the last week or so are wrong and deluded and objectionable in so many ways. If (as seems all-too-plausible) it also involved this specific kind of corruption, this is yet another reason to be horrified. But with a federal administration that is as deplorable as this one, it is frankly hard to keep count of all of these reasons for being horrified...