Rachel Maddow
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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And the economics expert he cites is somebody named Ron Vera, V-A-R-A, Ron Vera.
When Trump won the presidency and entered the White House, this Ron Vera started circulating a memo around Washington in support of Trump using tariffs in trade policy.
According to The New York Times, the memo had been, quote, sent from an email address purportedly belonging to Ron Vera.
At one point, Ron Vera wrote in the memo that Trump could, quote, ride the tariffs to victory.
The 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.
Who is Ron Vera?
Ron Vera is an anagram of Navarro, which is his last name.
No, they don't.
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Yes, they do.
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I'm an importer and exporter for 20 years.
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When a product comes into the U.S., there's something called a tariff sheet.
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I, as the buyer of that product, follow U.S.
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law and pay the tariff.
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I'm an American citizen, an American taxpayer.
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I pay that tariff to the U.S.
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government, and that increase in the cost, I then sell to you for a higher price because I've got to cover that tariff.
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