video Rachel Maddow on Peter Navarro and his pretend economist who advised these tariffs

The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster 'Ron Vara doesn't exist, he never has' 

Pro tariff economist Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro

 

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'Doesn’t exist!’ Maddow exposes Trump ally who invented expert — using anagram of his name

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“In all of his books, Peter Navarro has cited an economics expert to justify his views, and the economics expert he cites is somebody named Ron Vara,” who, Maddow added, sent out a memo around Washington at the start of Trump’s first administration touting the benefits of a tariff policy. “The problem is, Ron Vara doesn't exist, he never has,” Maddow said. “The economics expert that Peter Navarro has long cited to explain why he's so gung-ho on tariffs, this person, Ron Vara, is a made-up person. He is a fictional person. Peter Navarro invented Ron Vara 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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we've known this since 2019 at least

NPR 

White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego An 'Inside Joke'

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771396016/white-house-adviser-peter-navarro-calls-fictional-alter-ego-an-inside-joke

Peter Navarro Quoted Fictitious Alter Ego Ron Vara in Books

Law and Crime News

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Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro. In researching Navarro's work for a scholarly essay on his views, Australian National University professor Tessa Morris- ...

Peter Navarro's No-Good Economic Nationalism

 

Reason Magazine

https://reason.com › Economics › Economic Nationalism

 

Nov 8, 2020—Finally,Ron Vara had gotten his big break. "The tariffs are hurting China. China is bearing the entire burden of the tariffs," Navarro claimed,...

Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on ...

 

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com › U.S. › Politics

 

Oct 16, 2019— Peter Navarro, a China hawk and top trade adviser to President Trump, created a source in his books named Ron Vara, who dispensed anti-China musings.

 

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