Who buys this codswallop?

[Botany]

Trump tariffs are "negotiating strategy," Treasury chief Scott Bessent suggests as pause announced

The sweeping tariffs President Trump announced last week were a "negotiating strategy," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested Wednesday as the president announced a 90-day pause on most of those tariffs.

"We saw the successful negotiating strategy that President Trump implemented a week ago today – it has brought more than 75 countries forward to negotiate," Bessent said about the tariffs that Mr. Trump announced on April 2.

Bessent said that "every country in the world who wants to come and negotiate, we are willing to hear you, we are going to go down to a 10% baseline tariff for them," he said, speaking outside the White House moments after Mr. Trump announced the pause via a Truth Social post.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-negotiating-strategy-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-pause/

Or was this just criminal market manipulation? And who shorted the market and then bought it
back just prior to Krasnov’s reversal on tariffs?

[Jerry2144]

1. Thanks for the reminder

I need to get steer manure for my flower garden when I go back to the nursery

[calimary]

2. Just go to Washington DC and drive around where the White House is.

TONS of steer manure in there these days.

Actually, ALL KINDS of manure in there these days.

[Jerry2144]

5. Yup. They're all some combination of

Batshit, chickenshit, horseshit, dogshit, and frequently go apeshit over legitimate questions. It’s a veritable Duece Deluge in the GOP

[4catsmom]

3. list these 75 countries

otherwise, I do not believe it

[homegirl]

6. How can it be...

there are still living humans who can't admit that every time Donald Trump moves his lips-
HE IS LYING!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Who? Low-info types who haven't got friends who lost a job yet, who haven't been impacted by tariff taxes yet. . . nt

[imanamerican63]

7. Another constant lie!

Just like before “on day one….”! Everything about this administration is totally a fabrication of lies!