Journalist Rachel Meddou on the air of her program on the MSNBC spoke about a dubious process that led to the introduction of high tariffs in the economic policy of President Donald Trump. She stated that this idea arose after the husband of Trump's daughter, Jared Kushner, recommended her testing to use the Death from China.
Meddou noted that the concept of raising tariffs, which later became a major part of Trump's trade policy, is not only economically unconvincing but also fictional in circumstances that are doubtful. In particular, she indicated that Trump's team appeared a pseudoexpert - Peter Navarro, who made a proposal to raise tariffs, having not the best recommendations.
"Trump came up with this idea after spreading a fake note from a counterfeit person with a fake email address," Maddou said, pointing that Trump's note was written by Economist Peter Navarro, an advisor to trade in the White House. Jared Kushner, a son -in -law Trump, allegedly found a book "Death from China" on Amazon, and she made a great impression on him. Kushner did not read the books, but believed that her title was quite influential, so he suggested that Trump contact Navarro to involve it in the campaign's economic strategy. Interestingly, Meddou also noted that one of the key ideas of Navarro regarding the tariffs was recorded in a memorandum, which later found itself in Washington's circles. However, it turned out that the "expert" Ron Vara, which Navarro referred, never existed. "Ron Vara is anagram of the name of Navarro," Maddou explained, emphasizing that it was a fictional character that Navarro used to support his ideas. Rachel Meddou expressed doubts about whether a lot of intellectual work was needed to introduce such devastating ideas, noting that, after all, Trump and his team can cause serious damage to the American economy without significant scientific or economic calculations.
"You think that a grand plan and big brains are needed to come up with how to destroy the economy of the richest country on Earth, but this is not the case," she summed up, pointing to the scale of the problems that Trump creates with her solutions.
Thus, Rachel Meddou criticized not only the idea of tariffs, but also the methods of making important economic decisions in Trump administration, which, in her opinion, is the result of accidental and unverified advice.
