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Trump’s war on farmers

The president has triggered a trade war with China, and the bombs are falling on his own allies in the Farm Belt.

Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, plus $50 billion in additional products, has provoked two waves of retaliation by China against American farmers who export pork, beef, soybeans and sorghum. The Wall Street Journal reports those measures are deliberatel…

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