Angry and unglued, starts trade war,
by STEPHANIE RUHLE and PETER ALEXANDER
... Trump's policy maneuver .. was announced without any internal review by government lawyers or his own staff ...
On Wednesday evening, the president became "unglued," in the words of one official familiar with the president's state of mind ...
Trump, the two officials said, was angry and gunning for a fight, and he chose a trade war ...
Ross had already invited steel and aluminum executives to the White House for an 11 a.m. meeting on Thursday ...
By midnight Wednesday, less than 12 hours before the executives were expected to arrive, no one on the president's team had prepared any position paper for an announcement on tariff policy ... In fact .. the White House counsel's office had advised that they were as much as two weeks away from being able to complete a legal review on steel tariffs ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-was-angry-unglued-when-he-started-trade-war-officials-n852641
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