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Rhiannon12866

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Mon Sep 15, 2025, 09:50 PM Sep 2025

Jail, Jan. 6th & pardons for violent MAGA fans attacking police: WH's Navarro with MSNBC's Ari Melber - The Beat - MSNBC



Trump aide Peter Navarro joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber and discusses his time in jail, Jan. 6th pardons, Trump’s tariffs, and more in this extended interview. - Aired on 09/15/2025.
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Jail, Jan. 6th & pardons for violent MAGA fans attacking police: WH's Navarro with MSNBC's Ari Melber - The Beat - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2025 OP
Why is that deceitful jackass on any program concerned with 'news'? Jarqui Sep 2025 #1

Jarqui

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1. Why is that deceitful jackass on any program concerned with 'news'?
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 10:23 PM
Sep 2025

As many here would know:

SNOPES: Trump adviser Peter Navarro and 'economics expert Ron Vara' are same person, NYT reported in 2019
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/09/peter-navarro-pseudonym-ron-vara/

Maddow made a bold claim: Peter Navarro, a Trump economic adviser known for supporting anti-China and pro-tariff policies, had repeatedly cited an expert who did not exist to justify his positions. The allegedly fictional expert's name was "Ron Vara" — an anagram of "Navarro." According to the Maddow segment, Navarro used the Ron Vara pseudonym as a source in several of his books, and published a pro-tariff memo under the name.


He used a fictitious person as an expert to support his tariff articles.

Again, why would any self respecting journalist give him 5 seconds of air time?

Another sign that journalism is dying rapidly in America

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