WH Trade Adviser Refuses To Say If Biden Came Up During Talks With China

White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro wouldn’t say whether 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter have come up during trade talks with China.


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So you know it absolutely came up with China.

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Get Ron Vara on the line! He´ll know how to answer!

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“We’ll take that as a Yes, Pete.”

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Either it did or it didn’t. Since he couldn’t say “no”, the answer must be “yes”.

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Yet another demonstration of the most transparent administration in US history in action.

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A simpler question would have been, “So, were you able to secure everything the White House wanted in your negotiations with China?”

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I think Sciutto should have gone even further than that - and said something like "So its safe for the American people to assume that you are willing to negotiate American jobs away if China agrees to manufacture dirt on Joe Biden? " I mean, really challenge these corrupt hacks.

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Seemed like a simple yes or no question.

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Hey Navarro, it’s not an anonymous source when Donnie announces it during Chopper Talk.

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The answer: an offer was made to return to 2017 levels of tariffs and agricultural purchases as a condition of ending the trade wars.

So, it only cost us $28 billion in bailouts to farmers and untold lost billions in foreign sales just to return to the status quo ante.

So.Much.Winning.

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i wonder if anybody is keeping tabs on how many times and ways republicans have confirmed quid pro quo

I’ll take that as a silent YES unless I hear verbal or written NO!

More UNLAWFUL SOLICITATION exhibit added to impeachiness!

When is Navarro going to testify wrt to Chinagate?

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“If a person will not say NO, I never sent a dick pick, they sent a dick pick”, Bill Maher.

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I can’t wait for the day when the fucking MAGA Zombies have to admit what they’ve done. And, how fucking stupid they are for putting these asholes in charge.

My post is pointless and just venting. I just get sick and tired of all this shit. Every day, all the time.

And these backwardass, white, evangelical fucking morons tet to justify it.

They get their racist, homophobic judges, so Jesus.

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“You don’t have a right to know what happens behind closed doors in the administration,” he told Sciutto."

he continued: "Because we rule you, stupid peasants! Get it through your heads, you have no right to know what your government does.’

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Brad DeLong had Navarro pegged long ago when he began to refer to him as “Our Nutty Economics Professor.”

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China like the rest of the world knows trump is weak and they’re not going to take a deal unless it benefits them. They’re not going to investigate Biden or anyone else for trump. Basically though they are stalling with the US while they enter into deals with other countries. By the time a deal is actually made, they won’t need us.

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That makes sense, they use the possibility of going back to the US to get a better deal from other countries.

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