Rachel Maddow explains how Trump's entire tariff policy is based off a book by Peter Navarro in which he uses a fake, made-up "expert" to bolster his claims. That "expert's" name is Ron Vara, which is an anagram of Navarro. ..."It is hard to get your head around how much damage this one man can cause. I think it's even harder to get your head around simultaneously the fact that he can do damage of this magnitude with such a teeny, tiny, teeny, teeny, tiny amount of thought," Maddow said. "You think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on earth, but that's not how it's working out. Turns out it doesn't take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together."
WATCH: "Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro."
@maddow.msnbc.com explains how Trump's tariffs policy came from his economic advisor Peter Navarro, who invented a fake expert in his books to justify it
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" The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
#9: The Congressional Joint Economic Committee can read into the official records that they subpoenaed 'Ron Vara' to provide his subject matter expertise on economics to the American people on Capitol Hill: storage.googleapis.com
#ETTD The truthfulness of the statement Everything Trump Touches Dies is getting scarier by the day.
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