> Tariffs are not extortion Except the way Trump imposed clearly seemed like an attempt at exhortation. Of course those demands to Canada and Mexico were so

> Tariffs are not extortion Except the way Trump imposed clearly seemed like an attempt at exhortation. Of course those demands to Canada and Mexico were so absurd and vague that they turned out to just be a pretext. Trump can't enact these tariffs legally without the approval from congress unless they are related to some national [economic] emergency. So he came up with the fentanyl from Canada nonsense to somehow workaround that. Hopefully they will be challenged in court and the congress will refuse to confirm them. He basically used the same mechanism used by presidents to impose sanctions on Russia and other countries to introduce tariffs on American allies...