Trump says he can't guarantee tariffs won't raise US prices and won't rule out revenge prosecutions

[Galraedia]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said he can’t guarantee that his promised tariffs on key U.S. foreign trade partners won’t raise prices for American consumers and he suggested once more that some political rivals and federal officials who pursued legal cases against him should be imprisoned.

The president-elect, in a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, also touched on monetary policy, immigration, abortion and health care, and U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Israel and elsewhere.

Trump often mixed declarative statements with caveats, at one point cautioning “things do change.”

A look at some of the issues covered:

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[Deuxcents]

1. A tariff is a tax on products consumers will pay for imported goods from the country targeted..

And now he’s saying he can’t guarantee prices won’t be increased on products from those tariffed countries? Is it me or does he even know what he’s saying?

[Blue_Roses]

6. Do you even have to ask...

After all the shenanigans we witnessed during his campaign, I'm pretty confident he has NO idea what he's talking about. And it worries me.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

2. Damn the idiots who voted for this sh*t.

[unblock]

3. Mandating higher prices might lead to higher prices. Go figure.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Wharton School of Business, my ass!

Trump was killing time at Fordham University until his brother, Fred (Mary's father), used his connections to get his brother into Wharton (because Trump didn't have the academics to be admitted on his own merit).

All he took were classes in the real estate business.

Obviously didn't get his share of Adam Smith and Economics 101.

[J_William_Ryan]

5. Imprisoned absent due process, of course.

Opposing Trump and his fascist regime is now a crime.

[Emile]

7. Con man pretending to be a business man.

The only thing he's good at is bankruptcy.