President Donald Trump threatened China with more tariffs on Friday, as he urged his attorney general to uncover the identity of the official who wrote the anonymous New York Times op-ed and said he would have fired Gary Cohn “in two seconds” for taking a memo off his desk.
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President Donald Trump threatened China with more tariffs on Friday, as he urged his attorney general to uncover the identity of the official who wrote the anonymous New York Times op-ed and said he would have fired Gary Cohn “in two seconds” for taking a memo off his desk.
“It’s in the hopper,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens.”
“It’s national security,” Trump said.
