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TreasonousBastard
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(4,572 posts)irisblue
(33,047 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)not worth wasting pixels on.
irisblue
(33,047 posts)Navarro has been a part of trump Toadies since 2015
Source--https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/us/politics/peter-navarro-carl-icahn-trump-china-trade.html
snip--"Mr. Navarro, 67, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who holds a doctorate from Harvard, is the only credentialed economist in Mr. Trumps inner circle. He is the author of a series of jeremiads, including a 2012 documentary film, Death by China, in which an animation of a Chinese knife stabs a map of the United States and causes blood to run freely. Mr. Navarro has said that China is effectively waging an economic war by subsidizing exports to the United States and impeding imports from it. Mr. Trump, influenced by Mr. Navarros work, described this on the campaign trail as the greatest theft in the history of the world.
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Trump's China policy sure sounds similar to Narvarros.
Midnight Writer
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(4,572 posts)when he said we might have a vaccine in 1.5 years.
irisblue
(33,047 posts)source--https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/trump-fauci-coronavirus-pandemic-oppo/614224/
snip--"Targeting Fauci seems like a tragic misuse of White House time and energy if officials aim is to defeat the coronavirus. But Trump appears more concerned with discrediting Fauci. Over the weekend, the White House sent multiple news outlets a document that smacked of opposition research. It carried a list of statements Fauci had made about COVID-19, purporting to show that he had contradicted himself about the outbreak and that he has been wrong on things. In one example from an NBC interview in February, the White House omitted Faucis full quote, giving the impression that hed misjudged the outbreaks danger. Peter Navarro, Trumps top trade adviser, wrote an op-ed for USA Today yesterday claiming that Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on. (A Trump communications aide tried to distance the White House from the op-ed this morning.)"
The attempt to discredit Faucis public-health expertise is a political move, and one with disastrous implications. As much as Trump wants and needs Americans to see the virus as a nuisance thats soon to be overcome, Fauci is a recurring reminder that the crisis remains a grave and enduring threat, and that Trump has mishandled the pandemic. The Americans who believe the White Houses anti-science campaign risk cutting themselves off from potentially life-saving information."
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