Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans strongly left
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Politics
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IN HIS OTHERWISE INEXPLICABLE trade war with Canada, U.S. dairy was supposed to be the one industry President Donald Trump was actually helping.
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Trump → suppose → Canada
He frequently namechecks the sector in his social media posts and interviews about Canada, citing it as evidence that our polite northern neighbors are really a bunch of dirty cheats.
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neighbors → namecheck → cheats
Sometimes, Trump complains that Canadian dairy tariffs on the United States are 250 percent; sometimes, according to Trump, they’re 400 percent.
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they → complain → Trump
And look, it’s true that dairy trade has been a source of friction between the two countries over the years.
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trade → look → years
Trump’s response to that friction, however, has been to tariff, bully, and ban his way to prosperity.
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response → tariff → prosperity
To which American dairy farmers are now saying: Please, stop helping.
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farmers → say → which
“I can’t figure out who’s winning here,” Mateo Kehler, CEO of Jasper Hill Farm, a cheese company in northern Vermont, told me.
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Kehler → figure → me
“Everybody I know is losing.”
Jasper Hill Farm makes mouth-watering, high-end, award-winning cheeses, the kinds served at Michelin-starred restaurants and stocked at your local cut-to-order cheesemonger counter.
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Farm → know → counter
In fact its rich, bark-wrapped, “spoonably soft” Winnimere cheese just won the American Cheese Society’s Best of Show prize.
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cheese → wrap → prize
Yet in the Trump era, the company’s export business has imploded.
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business → implode → era
Jasper Hill Farm’s once-booming Canadian customer base evaporated almost overnight last year, due to a combination of tariffs, counter-tariffs, and pissed-off Canadian customers boycotting American goods.
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base → boom → goods
And you know what?
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you → know → what
Kehler says he doesn’t blame them.
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he → say → them
“Honestly, if I was a Canadian consumer, I would not be buying anything from the U.S. either,” he acknowledged.
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he → buy → U.S.
“This is a time for resistance, and I applaud Canadians for voting with their dollars.
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I → applaud → dollars
Let’s talk about how we got here.
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we → let → ?
This is gonna get gouda.1
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This → go → gouda.1
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who → help → membership
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