Trump’s Tariff Policy – where did it come from?

I’m linking this video from the point at which Kyle Kulinski starts answering that million trillion dollar question:

I would highly recommend watching the whole video, but I know time is precious so I’ll just summarise the bit about Trump’s tariffs:

Trump asked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to find him an economics expert,Kushner hopped onto amazon.com and went looking for books that seemed to match Trump’s ideas,Kushner found a book titled ‘Death by China’,Death by China was written by a guy called Peter Navarro,Peter Navarro is big on tariffs, but he’s not an economist,Where did Navarro get his ideas from?In his books, Navarro quotes extensively from an ‘expert’ named Ron Vara,Unfortunately, Ron Vara does not exist,The name ‘Ron Vara’ is an anagram of ‘Navarro’.So…Peter Navarro created a fictional character called Ron Vara in order to legitimise his beliefs about tariffs.And Trump has based all of his tariff policies on this made-up ‘expert’.

I write fiction, but if I wrote something like this? People would mock me for writing such a poor plot. And they’d be right.

Why write fiction when reality is so awful?

Meeks