U.S. President Donald Trump defended his tariff policy on Tuesday as good for the economy, playing down its impact on prices and the overall effect it’s had in inflation. “Every country almost every country in the world was ripping us off,” Trump told ABC News host Terry Moran. “They’re not doing that anymore.”
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