It Seems Like It's All Just One Big Shakedown!

A screenshot of three tweets from Brian Riedl discussing how business lobbyists are lobbying for tariff exemptions, comparing it to an earthquake and calling it 'Trumpy swamp of favoritism,' citing data that 200,000 of 425,000 exemption requests were granted, often due to political donations. The tweets are overlaid with the text 'The earthquake being felt in Wash DC is 1,000s of business lobbyists stampeding to the White House to carve out their tariff exemption. And history suggests that complimenting Trump & donating money will probably buy a carve out. Welcome to the Trumpy swamp of favoritism. We saw the swampy tariff favoritism before, and these new tariffs are far bigger & broader. Big corporations will buy their carve outs, yet many small businesses won't have the resources or connections. This paragraph is wild - 425,000 exemption requests for one tariff - 200,000 of which were granted, often due to political donations (as explained in the next paragraph).'

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