Before answering an attendee's question about President Donald Trump's "destructive and disastrous trade war," U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards made a plea to the rowdy crowd at his Thursday town hall in Asheville, North Carolina.
"Let me answer and then if you don't like it, you can boo or hiss or whatever you'd like to do," Edwards said, visibly exhausted.
As he expanded on Trump's use of tariffs as a negotiating tactic, it took less than a minute for the crowd to break out in outrage. He continued to plow ahead in his response and eventually punctuated it by telling attendees he would "stop there and you can yell." The crowd gladly took him up on the offer.
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