Trump Is Taking Credit for Resolving the Crises He Created

The president seems to be following a familiar playbook with his threat to impose sweeping tariffs on Mexico to gain leverage on the immigration issue

Brendan Nyhan
GEN
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5 min readJun 4, 2019

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One of Donald Trump’s signature moves as president is to act as both arsonist and firefighter, taking credit for…

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Brendan Nyhan
GEN
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan