WEST WING READS 05/10/2019 PRESIDENT TRUMP KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING!

President Trump’s Tariff Tactic is the Best Way to Finally Make China Stop Cheating President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs are the best way to finally make China stop cheating in international trade, Steven Mosher writes in the New York Post. “The president held off raising tariffs on Chinese-made goods to 25 percent on March 1, as he had promised. The hope was that China, after decades of cheating on trade in every way imaginable, would finally agree to play by the rules . . . Then, [last] Friday, China attempted to rewrite a whole host of provisions it had previously agreed to,” Mosher explains. “Unless China stops cheating, no deal may be the best deal of all. Trump understands this.” Click here to read more.

“Jerry Nadler has declared a constitutional crisis. The proximate cause is a couple of redacted lines, including one footnote, in a 400-page report. Let’s be glad for the sake of the republic that an entire page wasn’t withheld,” the National Review editorial board writes. “Nothing in the regulations required Attorney General Bill Barr to release any of the report, let alone release it in its entirety. He did anyway with minimal, entirely defensible redactions that the DOJ worked through with Mueller.”

“China is a clear challenge to much the U.S. holds dear, and that gives Trump momentum to keep the pressure on China,” national security expert Rebecca Grant writes in Fox News. America also has the upper hand, she says. “Trump picked the right moment for this showdown. The U.S. economy is growing and unemployment is at a 50-year low. In contrast, China’s economy isn’t booming. It's growing, but at the slowest rate in years.”

Back in 2012, “Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder had refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents in the Fast and Furious investigation, Republicans argued at the time that Democrats should stand with us in defending our Congressional subpoena power. They refused,” former Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) writes in Fox News. “America should not mistake this charade by the Democrats for a principled stand. Not when the principles shift with the political fortunes of the Democratic Party.”

“Pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences will donate the anti-HIV drug Truvada to the federal government so it can move toward its goal to eliminate HIV transmission in a decade,” Kimberly Leonard reports for the Washington Examiner. “Great news today: My administration just secured a historic donation of HIV prevention drugs from Gilead to help expand access” for those at risk, President Trump wrote on Twitter yesterday.