Trump: No Concern That Secondary Tariffs On Buyers Of Russian Oil Will Hurt U.S. Consumers

Speaking to reporters at JBA on Tuesday, President Trump dismissed economic concerns about secondary tariffs on Russia.

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00:00And that's going to help also.

00:01The Press on the Russian sanctions, sir, on the secondary tariff.

00:04Are you concerned that secondary tariffs on buyers of Russian oil will hurt American consumers, higher gas prices?

00:10I don't think so. I think that whole thing is going to go away eventually.

00:13It should have gone away. And Putin does say, oh, I want peace, I want peace.

00:17But so far, he hasn't lived up to that. So I think it's going to go away.

00:21But we're going to find out soon. We're going to find out soon.

00:23Can you give us more details on the sanctions? Is it 100 percent sanctions?

00:27I don't want to do that. But they're very fighting. They're very significant.

00:31And they're going to be very bad for the countries involved.

00:34I mean, they'll be very, very powerful and very bad for the countries involved.

00:39And I hope we don't have to pull that string.

00:41And maybe we'll see. We've got to end. We've got to stop the campaign.