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Selling Deficits
April 9: All of a piece.
It’s about dominance not partnership. One can’t partner with domination. One can’t stop an abuser with obeisance.
The market swing of April 9 triggered by T**** announcing a 90 day pause on reciprocating tariffs shows not only dominance but market manipulation on a grand scale. Usually market manipulation prompts an investigation by a government financial watchdog, a look-see into who’s cornering the markets, amassing money while most are losing fortunes.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt chastised her press audience April 9 for not reading “Art of the Deal,” to better prepare their salubrious reckonings of the April 8 EO and subsequent pause. Well, that may be the wrong title. Or perhaps I read the wrong book.
Did I read “Art of the Deal” or “How to Manipulate Risk”?
This is not a deal, this is an overture from a self-appointed manipulator of the nation’s trust. This is not another Project 2025 “policy shift,” this is a back door assault on the electorate.
T**** is not a deal maker. T**** is a thief. Stealing is not assuming risk and sharing gain. Beware, America who are we partnering with. Tempting as it may feel to say, T****’s “success” is America’s success, its folly to repeat “his win is America’s gain.”
