GOP Rep. John Moolenaar Blasts Trump in Newspaper (WSJ) the President Is Suing for $10 Billion [View all]

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Source: The Daily Beast

GOP Rep. Blasts Trump in Newspaper the President Is Suing for $10 Billion

Will Neal
Sun, August 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM EDT
2 min read

A Republican congressman has broken party ranks to very publicly criticize Donald Trump in an opinion piece for the same newspaper the president seems to hate more than any other media outlet right now.

John Moolenaar, a GOP House Representative for Michigan who enthusiastically backed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” as a piece of “vital legislation” earlier in July, offered a near-surgical dissection of the MAGA leader’s recent deal with a U.S. tech giant in a letter to the Wall Street Journal—titled “Trump Takes a Wrong Turn on Nvidia’s Chips.”

Trump is suing the WSJ for a cool $10 billion, claiming the newspaper’s July article about a bizarre and sexually suggestive birthday card he’s alleged to have once sent convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was “false, malicious, and defamatory.”

Moolenaar’s letter took a scalpel to the president’s decision last week to permit AI computer chip manufacturer Nvidia to sell advanced hardware to China, in exchange for the tech giant paying 15 percent tariffs to the White House on sales to the authoritarian Asian country.

The arrangement followed after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whom Trump has described as “my friend,” begged the MAGA leader to overturn a Commerce Department policy, implemented in April, that had otherwise restricted those exports, costing Nvidia an estimated $5.5 billion in the process.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-rep-blasts-trump-newspaper-145216940.html

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Moolenaar objects on both national security and constitutional grounds, as it is an export tax levied by the executive, not Congress.