Ron Vara: The fake economist who inspired Trump’s tariff war
April 16, 2025
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as posted by the channel“Peter Navarro had invented Ron Vara, and he admitted to it.”
Navarro, Trump’s senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing, created Ron Vara to support his protectionist and anti-china economic theories which Trump has used to inform his tariff policies, says journalist in New York Harriet Alexander.
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