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efit from China’s aggressive industrial poli-
cies, worth $16 billion a year, but won’t impose
those tariffs until it collects public comment.
U.S. companies that rely on the targeted imports
— and can’t find substitutes — can apply for
exemptions from the tariffs.
Trump has already put tariffs on steel and
aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and
European allies, and his proposed tariffs against
China risk a major trade war involving the
world’s two biggest economies.
Associated Press
Judge jails ex-Trump
campaign chair
Manafort ahead of trial
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul
Manafort is going to jail.
Manafort was ordered into custody today
after a federal judge revoked his house arrest,
citing newly filed obstruction of justice charges.
The move by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman
Jackson made Manafort the first Trump cam-
paign official to be jailed as part of special coun-
sel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Already under intense pressure to cooper-
ate with prosecutors in hopes of securing leni-
ency, Manafort now loses the relative freedom
he enjoyed while he prepared for two criminal
trials in which he faces the possibility of spend-
ing the rest of his life in prison.
A federal grand jury indicted Manafort
and a longtime associate, Konstantin Kilim-
nik, last week on charges of obstruction of jus-
tice and conspiracy to obstruct justice, adding
to the charges he already faced. The charges
do not relate to his work on the Trump cam-
paign or involve allegations of Russian election
interference.
Manafort, 69, and Kilimnik are accused of
attempting to tamper with witnesses in the case
by trying to get them to lie about the nature of
their Ukrainian political work. Prosecutors say
Manafort and Kilimnik tried to get the two wit-
nesses to say that lobbying work carried out
by clandestinely paid former politicians only
occurred in Europe and not the U.S., a con-
tention the two witnesses said they knew to be
false.
Manafort will remain in jail while he awaits
trial in both Washington and Virginia over
the next few months. He faces several felony
charges — including tax evasion, bank fraud,
money-laundering conspiracy and acting as
an unregistered foreign agent — related to his
Ukrainian political work, money he funneled
through offshore accounts and loans he took out
on property in the U.S.
Trump announces US
tariffs on $50 billion in
Chinese imports
WASHINGTON — Vowing to cut U.S.
trade deficits and protect the nation’s high-tech
“crown jewels,” President Donald Trump said
today he’s levying a 25 percent tariff on up to
$50 billion worth of Chinese imports, instantly
escalating a trade dispute between the world’s
two largest economies.
Trump: Won’t sign
‘moderate’ immigration
bill in GOP setback
AP Photo/Cliff Owen
Then-FBI Director James Comey testifies in January 2017.
Watchdog: Comey ‘insubordinate,’
not biased in Clinton probe
WASHINGTON — In a stinging rebuke, the Justice Department watchdog declared Thurs-
day that former FBI Director James Comey was “insubordinate” in his handling of the Hillary
Clinton email investigation in the explosive final months of the 2016 presidential campaign.
But it also found there was no evidence that Comey’s or the department’s final conclusions
were motivated by political bias toward either candidate.
President Donald Trump had looked to the much-anticipated report to provide a fresh line
of attack against Comey and the FBI as Trump claims that a politically tainted bureau tried
to undermine his campaign and, through the later Russia investigation, his presidency. He is
likely to use the harsh assessment of Comey as validation for his decision to fire him, an act
now central to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether the president sought
to obstruct justice.
Clinton and her supporters, on the other hand, have long complained that she was the one
whose election chances were torpedoed by Comey’s investigation announcements about her
email practices, in the summer and then shortly before the election.
Yet the report’s nuanced findings — that the FBI repeatedly erred, though not for politi-
cally improper reasons — complicated efforts by Republicans and Democrats alike to claim
total vindication.
The report also notes that Comey, despite chiding Clinton for mishandling government
business, occasionally used personal email himself to discuss FBI matters.
“But my emails,” she said, reacting in a three-word tweet.
China’s government quickly responded that
it would “fight back strongly” with penalties of
the same scale on American goods.
Trump said he was fulfilling a campaign
pledge to crack down on what he contends
are China’s unfair trade practices and efforts
to undermine U.S. technology and intellectual
property. During an impromptu appearance on
the White House North Lawn, the president
hailed his “very big tariffs” on China.
The U.S. tariffs will cover 1,102 Chinese
product lines worth about $50 billion a year.
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Those include 818 products, worth $34 billion a
year, remaining from a list of 1,333 the admin-
istration released in April. After receiving pub-
lic comment, the U.S. removed from the list
hundreds of products, including televisions and
some pharmaceuticals, according to a senior
administration official who briefed reporters on
condition of anonymity.
The government will start to collect the tar-
iffs July 6.
The administration also is targeting an addi-
tional 284 Chinese products, which it says ben-
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump ignited eleventh-hour confusion today
over Republican efforts to push immigration
through the House next week, saying he won’t
sign a “moderate” package. A top House Repub-
lican said the chamber would not tackle the
issue without Trump’s backing.
The tumult erupted days before GOP lead-
ers planned campaign-season votes on a pair
of Republican bills: a hard-right proposal and
a middle-ground plan negotiated by the party’s
conservative and moderate wings. Despite their
policy clashes, both factions have been eager
for the votes to be held as a way to show vot-
ers where they stand approaching an election in
which GOP House control is at stake.
“I’m looking at both of them,” Trump told
reporters at the White House. “I certainly
wouldn’t sign the more moderate one.”
The compromise bill includes provisions
easing the high-profile problem of children
being separated from parents when the families
are caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally. It
would mandate that families be kept together for
as long as they are in the custody of the Home-
land Security Department, whose agencies staff
border facilities and enforce immigration laws.
Spotlighting the political sensitivity of the
issue, congressional Republicans have dis-
tanced themselves from the Trump administra-
tion’s policy of separating children from their
parents at the southern border. The White House
has cited the Bible in defending its “zero toler-
ance” approach to illegal border crossings.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has said that
Trump backs the compromise plan. GOP aides
said Trump’s remark caught party leaders off-
guard, and White House officials did not imme-
diately respond to requests to clarify the presi-
dent’s comment.
Both the conservative and compromise GOP
bills contain stringent security provisions and
money to build Trump’s proposed wall with
Mexico. But only the compromise measure
gives young immigrants who arrived in the
U.S. illegally as children a chance to ultimately
become citizens.
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