Trump says April 2 tariffs will bring ‘liberation of America’

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President Donald Trump believes by implementing reciprocal tariffs beginning on April 2, he will bring the “liberation of America.”

“We’ve been ripped off by every country in the world — friend and foe,” Trump told Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle in an interview that aired on Wednesday. “On April 2, I call it the liberation of America. We’ve been the fat, dumb, foolish country that allowed everyone to rip us off.”

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