Donald Trump has often likened efforts to hold him accountable by the media, Democrats, investigators, courts, and others, to a “witch hunt.” But recently he’s begun also using the phrase to defend his foreign buddies. From Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose corruption trial Trump has urged the end of, to most recently former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, whose affinity for and similarities to the U.S. President have earned him the nickname “Trump of the Tropics,” Trump has tried to wield the influence of the U.S. government to keep his friends from facing charges in their own countries. Trump announced that the tariff rate on Brazil, which was initially set at 10% in April, would be raised to 50% as a result of these issues, as well as to “rectify the grave injustices of the current regime” and make the U.S.-Brazil trade relationship more “Reciprocal,” despite the U.S. in fact running a trade surplus with Brazil. Do you think that Trump is weaponizing the dollar ?
