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Trump says US wants to make tanks, not T-shirts

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday his tariff policy was aimed at promoting the domestic manufacturing of tanks and technology products, not sneakers and T-shirts.

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Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey, Trump said he agreed with comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on April 29 that the U.S. does not necessarily need a “booming textile industry” — comments that drew criticism from the National Council of Textile Organizations.

“We’re not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts. We want to make military equipment. We want to make big things. We want to do the AI thing with computers,” Trump said.

“I’m not looking to make T-shirts, to be honest. I’m not looking to make socks. We can do that very well in other locations. We are looking to do chips and computers and lots of other things, and tanks and ships,” Trump said.

Trump, who has upended world markets with the broad imposition of tariffs, revived his harsh trade rhetoric on Friday when he pushed for a 50% tariff on European Union goods starting June 1 and warned Apple he may impose a 25% levy on all imported iPhones bought by U.S. consumers.

Texas doctor who filed $118M in fraudulent claims is sentenced

(NYT) — For nearly 20 years, a Texas doctor falsely diagnosed patients as having a chronic disease, administered unnecessary, toxic treatments and filed more than $118 million in fraudulent health insurance claims to fund his lavish lifestyle, which included a private jet, luxury cars and high-end properties, prosecutors said.

The doctor, Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 68, of Mission, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week, according to the Justice Department.

From 2000-18, he falsely diagnosed patients with rheumatoid arthritis and administered dangerous, medically unnecessary treatments to defraud federal and private health insurance companies, the Justice Department said.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that causes a person’s immune system to attack healthy tissue. Some of Zamora-Quezada’s patients were as young as 13, the Justice Department said.

Zamora-Quezada’s medical license was canceled in 2021, according to Texas Medical Board records.

His scheme funded what prosecutors described in court documents as his “lavish and opulent lifestyle,” with properties across the United States and Mexico, as well as a private jet and a Maserati that he used to travel between his offices in the Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio.

Zamora-Quezada had two luxury penthouse apartments in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, condominiums in San Diego, Aspen, Colorado, and Punta Mita, Mexico, and multiple homes and commercial properties in Texas, according to court records.

Matthew R. Galeotti, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said Zamora-Quezada’s “depraved conduct” represented a “profound betrayal of trust” between patients and their doctors.

Randy Crane, the U.S. chief district judge for the Southern District of Texas, sentenced Zamora-Quezada to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Zamora-Quezada was also ordered to pay $28,245,454 in restitution, according to court documents.