Andrew Ross Sorkin
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This whole thing becomes a chess piece.
They're all chess pieces on a board.
And I think he thinks to himself, I now have a chess piece over X. They are paying this tariff now.
I'm collecting money from them one way.
At some point, if I need them in some other way, maybe I can lower the tariff.
By the way, maybe I can raise the tariff on them.
Right.
And the whole thing is just a sort of grand leverage negotiation.
I mean, I guess it's history.
You can't really spoil history.
You can't really spoil history.
So,
Charles Mitchell effectively gets indicted for tax evasion.
By the way, that case brought against him by Roosevelt, effectively signed off by Roosevelt, who had a chip on his shoulder about Mitchell.
And that was part of the politics, too.
So this gets back to the strange parallels in life, Democrats and Republicans, for better or worse.
And he goes to trial.
Everybody expects that he's going to be convicted.
Everybody thinks he's going to be convicted.
Right.