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“Howard Lutnick Is The Problem” – Eric Bolling BLASTS Trump’s Tariff Plan As Anti-Free Market

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Eric Bolling shares his journey from Wall Street to TV and dives deep into Trump's tariff strategy. As a self-described “OG MAGA,” he criticizes the execution of tariffs, highlights Howard Lutnick’s controversial role, and debates if tariffs truly benefit the American worker.

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0:00.0

Eric, your background for some of the audience that don't know.

0:02.7

Your background is actually financed before you got into TV.

0:05.3

If you don't mind for some folks that don't know, maybe take a minute or two and give a little bit about your background and finance.

0:09.8

Sure. I was a professional baseball player. I blew my rotator cuff out and had nowhere to go, nothing to do.

0:16.0

I ended up in New York on Wall Street and started on the New York Mercantile Exchange trading energy futures. And I spent

0:23.0

12 years there. I brought to the, got to the board room. I became a board member, brought the

0:28.1

exchange public, the first major financial, certainly exchange that went public on my push. And I spent

0:37.3

15 years total on Wall Street. And I've never left it. I've

0:41.1

trade, I continue to trade oil. I trade gold, silver, agricultural commodities, but I'm an active

0:47.6

stock trader as well. And so I'm in and out of this. And in tariffs, honestly, Patrick,

0:53.6

I just don't get it. I'm an original

0:57.9

MAGA. I'm an OG MAGA. Sorry, Chris. I know you're not going to love this. But one of the

1:02.2

original Trump supporters, one of the original Steve Bannon supporters, because when back in the day,

1:06.8

when Bannon and Andrew Breitbart were developing America first, I followed them.

1:14.3

And they were great.

1:15.4

And they brought President Trump to the presidency the first time.

1:19.1

So the MAGA, original MAGA support, I do not get this idea of applying tariffs on the whole

1:26.9

world.

1:27.3

We are the biggest consumer on the planet.

1:29.3

We have a lot of ways of exerting pressure on China to lower their tariffs and others, Brazil.

1:35.3

One of them would be use our massive oil infrastructure.

1:38.3

I mean, Trump loves to drill oil.

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