We told you Trump’s trade war was about extorting China over the fake Biden scandal
This morning Donald Trump stood in front of reporters on the White House lawn and urged China to help him investigate his laughably phony investigations against Joe Biden. In so doing, Trump ensured that his presidency will end badly for him, and that he’ll forever be remembered as an anti-American traitor. But there was another aspect to the story, and it looked for a moment like it was going to get lost.
It’s not just that Donald Trump criminally abused his office and betrayed the United States by asking the government of China to help him rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election in his favor. It’s that, less than a minute before Trump made the request, he said this: “I have a lot of options on China, but if they don’t do what we want, we have tremendous, tremendous power.”
That’s right, Donald Trump just threatened China with unspecified consequences if it doesn’t help him smear Joe Biden. He’s threatening to use the power of the presidency to have the United States harm China in some way if it doesn’t help him rig his own reelection. This is some kind of act of terrorism. But there’s more.
Earlier today, Palmer Report asked aloud if Donald Trump had been carrying out a trade war that’s seen him do one thing after another to harm China, ostensibly under the belief that he could pummel China into caving and handing the United States a favorable trade deal. But what if it was something else? We’ve all been sitting back and wondering why Trump was bothering with a trade war, when even he knew it would never result in a trade deal. Unfortunately we were right. CNN just reported that Trump has been pressuring China to smear Biden since at least June. His tariffs really have been about trying to extort China into helping him rig the 2020 election.
