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Gavin Newsom: “The tariff capacity has been one of his principal tools for…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Published | Video Starts at 03:13

It's open. It's not the $400 million planes as the tithing and gifts billions and billions of dollars in the last year. It's not about policymaking. It's about profit making. And The tariff capacity has been one of his principal tools for self-dealing. self dealing. But the challenges and this is a challenge in terms of not bending the knee and standing firm and tall. Not just governments and foreign leaders, but corporate leaders, universities, law firms and the media. (03:13–03:19)

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Asserts that Trump's use of tariffs is primarily for self-dealing.

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