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Aug 24, 2019 5 tweets 4 min read Read on X
“It was sarcasm,” @POTUS says of his ‘I’m the chosen one’ remark.
#IEEPA was invoked by @realDonaldTrump earlier this year when he said illegal immigration was an emergency and threatened to put tariffs on all imports from #Mexico.
@realDonaldTrump #IEEPA was used by President Carter in 1979 to block assets owned by the government of #Iran from passing through the US financial system.

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