Dems should subpoena Ron Vara

[WilliamPlanke]

Put Ron Vara in front of a congressional committee. We NEED to hear from him in person. …sarcasm emoji.

Rachel Maddow’s reporting on this should really be more widely known.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220209280

[Permanut]

1. Busy schedule..

He may be golfing with John Barron.

[GreenWave]

2. And bring penguins to explan why they have tariffs on us.

[GoreWon2000]

3. Navarro made up Vara

as Rachel has reported

[central scrutinizer]

4. His real name

Heywood Jablowme

[ILikePie92]

5. How?

How is this not all over the news? I wish I'd thought of this in grad school. I need references for my thesus.....I'll just make some up!

[yorkster]

6. Can't believe he just used the letters in his last name.

Also can't believe I didn't see that straight off.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. 'Doesn't exist!' Maddow exposes Trump ally who invented expert -- using anagram of his name (Navarro is a fraud)

Peter Navarro is a truly stupid person who went to prison because he is an idiot. Navarro is the only one supporting trump's tariffs and Navarro is relying on a made up expert

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671678361/

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow walked her viewers on Friday through the origin story of how President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, joined the MAGA team during his first presidential run – and brought a phantom source with him to Washington, D.C.

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that's not how it's working out,” the primetime host told viewers during her show’s opening monologue. “Turns out, it doesn't take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together.”

Maddow noted that Trump tasked son-in-law Jared Kushner with finding him an economic adviser, a search that led Kushner to Amazon, where he landed on one of Navarro’s books. That’s when things took a turn for Maddow, who said Friday that Navarro wasn’t the only figure who helped craft Trump’s tariff policy.

“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.”....

“That is, the intellectual basis on which Donald Trump today wiped $6 trillion of wealth out of existence and crashed America’s markets and brought America and the world to the brink of a self-inflicted, on purpose, global great depression, along the lines of what we had in 2008 and what the pandemic inflicted upon us in 2020,” she said. “This time, the global disaster is Donald Trump's big brain.”