Rachel Maddow
speaker
441 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 23 Jun
Rachel Maddow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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According to The New York Times, the memo had been, quote, sent from an email address purportedly belonging to Ron Vera.
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At one point, Ron Vera wrote in the memo that Trump could, quote, ride the tariffs to victory.
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problem is ron vera doesn't exist he never has the economics expert that peter navarro has long cited to explain why he's so gung-ho on tariffs this person ron vera is a made-up person he is a fictional person peter navarro invented ron vera as his expert source so he could quote this expert source over and over and over again in his crackpot books
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Who is Ron Vera?
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Ron Vera is an anagram of Navarro, which is his last name.
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But that really is how the Trump administration crafted its tariff policy.
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That's where Trump came up with the tariff idea.
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circulating a fake memo from a fake person with a fake email address in order to make it look like this was a serious issue being debated by real experts.
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That is the intellectual basis on which Donald Trump today wiped $6 trillion of wealth out of existence and crashed America's markets and brought America and the world to the brink of a self-inflicted, on-purpose, global Great Depression along the lines of what we had in 2008 and what the pandemic inflicted upon us in 2020.
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This time the global disaster is Donald Trump's big brain.
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How are you?
Staying up 25 hours for any reason is a trying thing physically.
I mean, you stood by your fellow Senator Chris Murphy nine years ago when he did 15 hours.
He described that today as a solidarity or a sympathy filibuster in that you stood with him during that time.
So you've experienced some of the pain of this before.
But A, you're nine years older than you were then.
And B, this was a lot
longer.
How was it?
How was it different?
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