Lulu Garcia Navarro
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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What I try to do is see problems and solve them. And the problem I saw crystal clear is the unfair trade that was driving up these large trade deficits. and shutting down our factories and creating just all sorts of misery for blue-collar workers.
It was always the same, like Mnuchin and Cohn and Kudlow and all these people, they just didn't buy in. And the defining moment for me in terms of when I finally was able to, um, began doing what the president wanted me to do, it was about four months in, and he made the famous where's my Peter call.
It's like he's sitting around with these guys, four months in, nothing's happening at all, and he goes, where's my Peter? I go over there, and I have this like battle with Cohn and whatever, and then some months later, I'm able with Wilbur Ross to get the steel and aluminum tariffs in, and Cohn leaves like a crying little baby in a huff.
So just to clarify, I went to prison not because I didn't want to cooperate with an investigation, but because it was my duty— as a senior White House official, to refuse to appear when issued an unlawful congressional subpoena. That case is being litigated. It was unfortunate. They put me in prison until they should have waited until my appeal ran its course.
But I want to be really clear about why I went to prison. I was defending the Constitution. Now, to your point,
So from the review of my book, there's been a steady evolution of thought amongst the public, even on Wall Street, about what I've been saying, what the president has been saying, what others in our camp have been saying. And I guess I'm mainstream now. That's scary. Yeah.
Tariffs do not cause inflation when they're imposed by the largest market in the world. And that has been demonstrated by the fact that we aggressively imposed tariffs during the first term. We had zero inflation as a result.
Let's do this. So who are the studies by?
All the ones that were wrong about Trump, you know, like the biggest... Ones that you don't believe in and that you kind of felt... Well, but I think it's fair, Anna, for you to go back and look at those analyses who said it and then look what they said, for example, when Trump came into office and how they predicted there would be chaos and
recession, inflation, stagnation that has never happened. I think my point here is that the academic community can't be trusted to critique Trump economics. And they have a credibility problem because they've been crying this wolf. They did it all through the first term. None of that happened. They're just wrong. We're right. They're wrong. End of story.
It's the American people who've borne the brunt of this for going on, what, 40 years now. How many times do you have to be told by politicians and corporate flacks that this free trade stuff's good for you? And then you lose your job and your community falls down around you for you to stop believing them. I mean, you know, that's why Trump got elected in 2016.
All right, let's walk through that, okay? There's a rhyme to the reason why we did that.
Here's the thing. We are the biggest market in the world. which gives us buying power, okay? So particularly export-dependent economies, the Chinas of this world, who heavily rely on Americans buying their products, if that becomes more difficult to do, what's the first thing these countries are going to do in response to tariffs? What are they going to do? We slap a tariff on.
What are the producers over there going to do? What are they going to do? Tell me.
You're a producer over there, and suddenly tariffs are up, and you've got to compete with an American producer. What are you going to do?
That's exactly what they do. It's not an assumption. That's just a fact.
So here's one of the iron laws of manufacturing. If manufacturing goes abroad, the supply chains follow and vice versa. Okay.
You can have a domestic investment come quickly.
You see wages go up, and that gives consumers more spending power and offsets any rise in prices. If real wages rise faster than any other types of inflation, people are still better off.
When I was a campaign advisor in 2016, I had a mantra. It was tax cuts, deregulation, strategic energy dominance, fair trade. Those were the four components, the tires on the car towards economic prosperity.
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