Leftists, ChiComs Join Forces Against Trump, U.S.

RUSH: So the ChiComs announce they’re gonna raise tariffs, $75 billion. The Dow Jones Industrial Average down about 500 points, and Trump hereby orders U.S. companies to start looking for an alternative to China for manufacturing and so forth. Of course, the media and the Democrat Party find themselves in a fascinating situation. They’re actively hoping for American economic decline. They actually find themselves on the side of the ChiComs here.

If the ChiComs are going to try to make life tougher for Trump and tougher for American consumers, then the Democrat Party really has no choice other than to support them, and the media ditto. And that is exactly what is happening as this story unfolds.

Rather than the media and a political party joining the president trying to bring a trading partner to heel and to engineer a fair set of trading circumstances, the media and the Democrat side with the ChiComs, portraying Trump as the out-of-control Looney Tune that is destabilizing the world.

Now, the ChiComs are just not gonna roll over. “Oh, okay, Mr. President. You’re the first guy that’s ever spoken up to us. So we will back down.” No. This guy Xi Jinping thinks he is the next Mao Tse-tung. He thinks he is the next ruler for life, and by decree in the Chinese Politburo, he is. So he said, okay. I’m gonna show this guy who’s boss. He gonna slap these new tariffs. I’m gonna slap tariffs on American goods. I’m gonna freeze American goods out of China. Screw you!

That’s why Trump said, okay, American companies, find another market. Trump isn’t gonna cave on this. But the Democrat Party now finds itself on the side of China.

The ChiComs are doing this to adversely affect Trump’s reelection chances. They are attempting to freeze the economies, the export economies of American farmers and steel and auto manufacturing in swing states, the states, many of them, that Trump shocked people by winning, beating Hillary Clinton. So the ChiComs have thrown in. The practical effect is the ChiComs have thrown in with the Democrats.

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