President Donald Trump, who is facing opposition from the courts with his fight to impose international tariffs, will likely at some point ask Congress to pass a statute to give him the tariffs he wants, American Spectator columnist Jeffrey Lord told Newsmax on Sunday.
“He’s a gradualist in the sense that he makes a move and he wants to see what the response is,” Lord said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “If he doesn’t get the response he likes, he keeps going with this. So I imagine as long as he is not happy with this, you are going to see him plowing ahead more and more and more to get where he wants to be.”
Trump, he added, is “a very determined guy.”
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