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Trump recasts for risky ‘Season 2’

THE DEPARTED: CASUALTIES OF THE PRESIDENT’S SHAKE-UPS HOPE HICKS > RESIGNED

IT WAS EARLY MARCH, AND PRESIDENT DONALD Trump had a dramatic plan: impose a new round of import tariffs on America’s largest trading partner, China. But in meeting after meeting, his aides warned just how costly the move could be. It would hurt U.S. workers and slice into the stock market, they said. It didn’t have the backing of fellow Republicans. It would be bad politics for a party facing tough odds in November’s elections. They reminded him that the global aluminum and steel tariffs he imposed earlier in the month had led European allies to prepare retaliatory moves and had prompted the White House’s chief economic adviser to resign. Who knew what unintended consequences this new plan might unleash?

The President nodded along, now and then mumbling an O.K., and the White House aides thought they

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