Dick Morris to Newsmax: Trump’s High Tariffs on China ‘Very Appropriate’

It’s “very appropriate” that President Donald Trump is zeroing in on China with his call for high tariffs, author and Trump adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax Saturday. 

“Well, initially, Trump announced he was going to raise tariffs on everybody and is doing that, and then increasingly he focused on China, and is insisting on big tariff increases on China,” Morris told Newsmax’s “The Count.”

“That is appropriate. We have a worldwide trade deficit of $1.2 trillion, but $300 billion of that is with China.”

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