There’s a deep hypocrisy to the president’s cryptocurrency boosterism.
This is part of Trump’s Great American Crypto Scam, a series about the catastrophic collision between the second Trump administration and the wild world of cryptocurrency. Read it all here.
According to Donald Trump, there’s a simple reason that the United States has had to impose economy-exploding tariffs against Canada: fentanyl. Although only a soup can’s worth of the unusually deadly synthetic opioid has been discovered by agents at the U.S.–Canada border so far this year, the president insists that a “massive” amount of the drug is being trafficked into America from the north—and that until this possibly imaginary flow of “poison” is halted, punitive measures against imports will continue.
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