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China has hit back at President Donald Trump by imposing new trade tariffs on $60bn of American goods.

It comes after the US slapped duties on $200bn of Chinese imports on Monday, escalating its trade war with Beijing.

China will target American goods such as liquefied natural gas, which are produced in states loyal to the US president.

However, in a tweet Mr Trump warned Beijing against seeking to influence the upcoming US midterm elections.

"There will be great and fast economic retaliation against China if our farmers, ranchers and/or industrial workers are targeted!" he said.

"There will be great and fast economic retaliation against China if our farmers, ranchers ... are targeted!" he said.

NBC does not want the truth about Trump to come out

Now then, why is the political press so angry that the president of the United States is releasing information to the public pertinent to an investigation that the political press has obsessed with for nearly two years?

. You are determined to maintain it is still not proven,

Grassley says Kavanaugh accuser IS NOT responding to their requests for next week’s hearing

ON THE RUN: Kavanaugh’s Accuser Goes Underground, Blows Off Senate Invite to Testify

. “We have reached out to her in the last 36 hours, three or four times by email and we have not heard from them. It kind of raises the question do they want to come to the public hearing or not? The reason we’re having the public hearing is obviously, well number one, accusations like this deserve consideration and looking into and that’s what the purpose of the hearing is. We wouldn’t be having the hearing if Dr. Ford told the Washington Post and other people publicly she wanted to testify.”

Trump declassification order commences total war with the deep state

Democrats and their media allies go full anti-transparency

Democratic leaders and their allies in the legacy media are pulling out all the stops to convince the public that the president should not be allowed to use his declassification authority. Immediately following the president’s statement, they moved in lockstep, arguing that declassifying information and making it available to the public somehow interferes in active investigations.

It is not. Trump has not been to a court to defend himself. It is called due process. Next.

See, this is the strategy that Trump supporters on social media have been using all along. First you said there is no proof that Trump committed a crime, so let's just drop it. Then you said there is no proof that Trump committed a crime so let's not have a Special Counsel investigating.

Now you say there is no proof unless it's been presented in a court of law and resulted in a conviction. So I guess that means that no public figure you like should get investigated until after they've been to court for it and convicted. Which means that no public figure that you like will ever get investigated in th first place. And so on.

All this reveals your stunning hypocrisy when one considers what has been revealed just two posts before, Blickers.

So I guess that means that no public figure you like should get investigated until after they've been to court for it and convicted.

On Monday evening, President Trump ordered the “immediate declassification” of materials related to the Russia investigation and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications used to spy [sic] on former campaign aide Carter Page.

And Trump supporters were angry that someone was checking out Carter Page after that happened???