Murdoch Paper Warns Trump: You Just Got Hit With a Major ‘Political Problem’

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal just slapped Donald Trump with a stark warning of a looming “political problem” over who will wind up paying his tariffs. In an editorial published Thursday, the paper’s editorial board said fresh inflation data showed costs climbing for U.S. producers, undermining the president’s claim that other countries would be paying for his import levies. Consumer-price data released Tuesday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index rose