Former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said President Trump was “forced” to introduce a 90-day pause on tariffs due to crippling market shares.

“Donald Trump said as much on the South Lawn, that he was looking at the bond markets collapsing and that was what forced his hand into this reversal,” Farah Griffin, who served in the first Trump White House, said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s "The Lead with Jake Tapper."

Shifts in U.S. trade policy shocked the traditionally safe bond market into a stalemate marked with only one bond offering at........

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