Oh, this was ugly. Dare I say it was over before it began?
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance appeared on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” this week to make a fool out of moderator Kristen Welker. Lemme rephrase that: to lead Welker into making a fool out of herself.
At issue in the segment were Trump’s promised blanket tariffs — which are probably a bad idea that I’ll write about in a future article. (Hint: exporters don’t pay tariffs, as Trump claims; importers pay tariffs.)
Welker asked Vance: “How do you respond to that charge that Trump’s tariffs would hurt the middle class?”
JD was ready with an answer — and more than eager to respond:
If you sit back a little bit, Kristen, there’s this whole thing that Kamala Harris did at the convention where she made a bunch of claims about what would happen, and not enough … reflection on what already happened, because Donald Trump already was president; he used tariffs to bring manufacturing jobs back to our country and I’ think he’ll do it again. He did it while keeping prices extremely low.
[I]f you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency, inflation never really ticked above two percent during his entire administration … and was about one-have percent, most of the time. So when Kamala Harris says, ‘If we do the thing that Trump already did, it’s gonna be way worse than it was last time.’ I just don’t think that makes a lot of sense. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
