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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Mary Papenfuss

Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper again flames Donald Trump for historic economic bungle

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal again savaged President Donald Trump in an editorial that lashed his tariffs as the “biggest economic policy mistake in decades,” and his threat to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell nearly catastrophically crazed.

It accuses Trump of attempting to “bully everyone into submission,” which failed miserably when his attacks on Powell sent the stock market tumbling — yet again — before the president was forced to publicly vow that Powell wouldn’t get the ax.

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