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I thought Bessent was one of the architects of this tariff plan?

• TheAlchemist 2y ago
  He was supposed to be. But he was clearly left out of the loop - look for interviews with him from the Liberation Day. He cleary had no clue what just happend and was very nervous.
• llm_nerd 2y ago
  He clearly is an outsider. He seldom has any idea what is going on and seems panicked. Even Lutnick, despite being used in an unending series of cable news soundbites saying incredibly out of touch, stupid thing, clearly is just a bystander. Trade policy is being set by Trump, Navarro (you know, the guy who made up a trade expert to launder his own idiotic ideas) and that vile goblin Stephen Miller. An idiot council.