Fabricated Numbers Central to Trump’s Pitch

President Trump boasted over the weekend that his tariffs — most of which an appellate court ruled illegal — had generated $8 trillion in new revenue.

That number isn’t just wrong. It’s impossible. Total U.S. imports last year were just $3.7 trillion.

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