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CNN’s Jake Tapper made a very interesting observation yesterday: An hour before Trump’s critical Boeing tweet, the Chicago Tribune published an article with Boeing’s CEO taking issue with Trump position on trade. “I’m not a political pundit or prognosticator — we have too many of those — but anyone who paid attention to the recent campaigns and the election results realizes that one of the overarching themes was apprehension about free and fair trade,” Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg said last week. “Last year, we delivered 495 737s from our factory in Renton, Wash., to customers around the world. One in every 3 of those 737s were bound for China. And about a quarter of all our airplane deliveries … were bound for Chinese customers. So was Trump’s tweet payback for Muilenberg’s comments on trade? Trump says he didn’t read the Chicago Tribune article. “I didn’t see an article of where he was critical of trade policies,” Trump said in a phone-call interview with “Today” this morning as part of winning Time magazine’s “Person of the The Year.”

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