‘Put the fear of God in foreign nations': Trump's revenge tax used for ‘leverage'
'I think it was there for leverage in the first place, it was there to give Trump another chip in the negotiations on trade,' Mr Mulvaney told Sky News Australia.
'They got what they wanted out of this; they put the fear of God in foreign nations.
'They sent a message.'
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