His lashing out at the upscale department store seems to reflect an approach to industrial policy that often brings unintended consequences.
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Ivanka Trump’s business just absorbed some blows.
Such actions, if meant to disrupt Nordstrom’s business, could be a signal to other retailers
that it’ll be costly to cut off existing business relationships with the Trump family.
And his son Donald Trump Jr. followed up with reports that supporters were planning to boycott the store.