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It did not go well for Donald Trump's top trade representative, Jamison Greer, who testified on Capitol Hill for two days under oath, the first day before the United States Senate, the second day before the House of Representatives. He spent a day and a half
justifying and making every excuse in the book for Donald Trump's tariffs against the world, the cockamamie formula, using deficits to calculate reciprocal tariffs, which weren't actually reciprocal tariffs, testifying under no circumstance ever. and I mean ever will there be a pause on any of these tariffs. We're all in. If there's 10% inflation, no pause. If millions of jobs get lost, no pause.
And then on day two of his testimony before the House of Representatives, you literally see him getting a text message or a Google alert on his phone, and he has this Oh, crap moment where he finds out that Donald Trump reversed course on every country other than China. And then Donald Trump essentially paused all of the tariffs against the world.
Precisely what Jameson Greer testified would never happen. And also because Jameson Greer's the top trade representative, this would be like the decision that he makes.
or should be involved in, and he was finding out that Donald Trump basically made a tweet or a social media post, and on that basis, the entire tariff policy shifted in a moment, an entire realignment of United States trade policy took place, and Jameson Greer, the trade representative, was finding out This is the chaos of the Trump regime.
So then naturally on day two, the Democrats pounced and they were asking Trade Representative Greer, you didn't know about that. You've just spent two days testifying. This would never happen. And now that's happening. Explain that to us.
And Jamison Greer's like, oh, well, I'm reading the Post and I think that this is actually really smart because there's no depth to the excuses and depravity that they won't justify when it comes to Donald Trump. So let's talk about what went down. So first, you have Democratic Senator Mark Warner. This is day one when Greer's before the Senate.
And Senator Mark Warner just goes off on Jamison Greer saying, Why the hell are you tariffing Australia, our ally, when there's a surplus that we have in trade with Australia? That makes no sense under your cockamamie Greek formula. Play this clip.
There is a trade. We already have a free trade agreement. We have a trade surplus. So getting the least bad, why did they get whacked in the first place?
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