Rachel Maddow looks at ways to understand the scope of the damage Donald Trump has done to the entire world economy, and reminds viewers where the tariff ide...
In short: Trump told his son-in-law to find him an economic advisor, Jared went on Amazon and started looking for economic books on Amazon with titles that sounded badass. Jared found “Death by China” by a random nut job named Peter Navarro. In it, Peter Navarro extensively quoted an economics expert named Ron Vara who explained in detail how good an idea tariffs were.
Now, think about this: If this were a bad fantasy novel with a mysterious villain, who would Ron Vara during one particular big reveal turn out to be?
“The economics expert that Peter Navarro has long cited to explain why he’s so gung-ho on tariffs, this person, Ron Vara, is a made-up person. He is a fictional person. Peter Navarro invented Ron Vara as his expert source, so he could quote this expert source over and over and over again in his crackpot books.”
In short: Trump told his son-in-law to find him an economic advisor, Jared went on Amazon and started looking for economic books on Amazon with titles that sounded badass. Jared found “Death by China” by a random nut job named Peter Navarro. In it, Peter Navarro extensively quoted an economics expert named Ron Vara who explained in detail how good an idea tariffs were.
Now, think about this: If this were a bad fantasy novel with a mysterious villain, who would Ron Vara during one particular big reveal turn out to be?
I cheated and looked up the answer:
And he even made the fake economist an anagram of his own last name.
Reality is so fucking dumb. Ughhhh
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/peter-navarro-ron-vara-trump-china-intl-hnk/index.html
2019 story about it.
John Barron and Ron Vara are friends.
They’re best friends!
https://youtu.be/QGu0m08Etm8
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