Lemire: Trump Had To Cave Because of External Pressures; They Are Trying To Spin This as a Victory When It’s Really a Retreat

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LEMIRE: “I'm told yesterday, you know they -- his team is trying to spin this as a win, you know, both inside and outside the White House, his biggest supporters saying, this is the art of the deal, or look how clever it is that we've isolated China down the road. And then -- and there is certainly an appetite for taking on China, although there are going to be repercussions of that as well, Joe. But this is -- this was not the plan. This was he had -- he had to cave because of these external pressures. There were some dissent within his team that pushed him there as well. And then they're trying to spin this as a victory when it was really a retreat.”