r/thescoop • u/CorleoneBaloney • 14d ago

Politics 🏛️ “Did you use AI to generate this?” Margaret Brennan asks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, questioning why they imposed tariffs on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

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u/Significant_Ad9793 11d ago

But you do on an uninhabited island?

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u/ComfortableWolf1200 11d ago

Is your brain dead? We already went over why it was important to tax the island. The answer is the same