US EditionDid fictional character Ron Vara 'craft' Trump's tariff policies?
- Peter Navarro, a White House trade advisor, has a fictional alter ego named Ron Vara, created in his book 'If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks.'
- The character Ron Vara, described by Navarro as an 'inside joke,' has been used for two decades in his writings, often making extreme claims about China.
- Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki discovered that Ron Vara is not a real person, which surprised many, including Navarro’s publishers.
- Morris-Suzuki expressed concern that basing criticism of China on fictional characters could lead to misguided policies, urging that criticism should be based on facts, not fiction.
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What Did The Rallies Mean? Who Advised On The Tariffs? How Do We End
Greep Zoom #219 opens at the giant multi-million global marches that tried to confront the Trump regime.One performer at LA’s Pershing Square gathering is CLIFFORD TASNER of the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action who introduces us to Trillionaires for Trump.The fictional Trump “tariff advisor” Ron Vara is exposed by TATANKA BRICCA as a mythological economy crasher.Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH chimes in with his usual wisdom.The gre
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elDiarioARWho is Peter Navarro, Trump's ideologist of tariffs who fights with Musk in public and invented the economist "Ron Vara"
Navarro spent four months in prison for not cooperating with the U.S. Congressional committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2020, and is also known for his anti-Chinese positions and for quoting in a book a non-existent economist named Ron Vara, anagram of his own name
Is fictional expert 'Ron Vara' behind Trump's tariff plans?
'Ron Vara', the trade expert Peter Navarro frequently quotes in his books to back up his many theories on trade, tariffs and China, is a fictional character. Navarro has previously admitted as much, calling the character a 'whimsical device.' It is being claimed that Donald Trump came up with his anti-tariff ideas by relying on a memo published by Navarro as 'Ron Vara'
Peter Navarro: Trump Tariffs Will Create Jobs For Robots
The fraud of a trade expert and jailbird Peter Navarro told Laura Ingraham that because of Trump's tariffs, many jobs will come back to the US for robots. I doubt that's what the American people want to hear. Navarro, a.k.a. Ron Vara, went on Fox News to try to calm their viewers down since like the entire country, they've lost so much of their savings and 401(k) accounts because of Trump's moronic tariffs. Navarro attacked CNBC and other analys…
Did fictional character Ron Vara 'craft' Trump's tariff policies?
As US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs threaten to tank the global economy, many are claiming that his anti-China trade policies are based on the theories of a fake economics expert called Ron Vara, a fictional character invented and often cited by Trump's top trade advisor, Peter Navarro. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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