Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on Imported Cars
At a political rally in the Dayton, Ohio, suburbs, former President Donald Trump addressed Chinese President Xi Jinping with a threat that if Chinese firms open car assembly plants in Mexico, the U.S. will put a 100% tariff on their products.
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"Those big monster car manufacturing plants you are building in Mexico right now, and you think you are going to get that -- not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the car to us, no,” Trump said, according to CNN.
ABC News said he continued: "We're gonna put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not gonna be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole ... that's gonna be the least of it, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that'll be the least of it."
The Biden campaign seized on the "bloodbath" prediction, linking it to Trump's support of people arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Trump calls them political prisoners, and promises to release them if elected.
Trump complained on his Truth Social website that his political opponents and media "pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry."