El-Sayed Calls Trump ‘The Asshole’ For Trade War With Canada

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While Trump's flunky, Mike Rogers, has to play along, Abdul El-Sayed can call out Trump for what he is: an asshole.

Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed called Trump an asshole while condemning his "disastrous" trade dispute with Canada.

"Over the last couple of weeks, Michiganders have been struck by yet another disastrous Trump policy: the expansion of a trade war with Canada," El-Sayed said Monday at a press conference in Detroit.

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While Trump's flunky, Mike Rogers, has to play along, Abdul El-Sayed can call out Trump for what he is: an asshole. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed called Trump an asshole while condemning his "disastrous" trade dispute with Canada. "Over the last couple of weeks, Michiganders have been struck by yet another disastrous Trump policy: the expansion of a trade war with Canada," El-Sayed said Monday at a press conference in Detroit.

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Canadians are, like, the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do.
So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole." "There's a smart use of tariffs.
It's a war on Michigan, because we have to pay the price, and we pay it every single day for goods that should not cost as much as they do." El-Sayed also called out his Republican opponent, former Rep.
Mike Rogers, saying, "He has no choice but to rubber-stamp" Trump's trade war.

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Nowhere is Trump's trade war more unpopular than in the state of Michigan. "This is a vanity war, and I want to be clear:

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