White House Adviser Blames China For ‘Every Bad Thing,’ Dodges Qs On USA’s Unique Failures | Talking Points Memo

In an unhinged interview Friday, the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the Chinese government is responsible for “every bad thing we’re experiencing right now” — but he couldn’t explain why COVID-19 cases are swelling in America while other wealthy nations around the world have begun to smother the disease.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1318689

What an interesting form of argument.

Navarro: Crazy thing!
Velshi: Are you seriously saying this crazy thing?
Navarro: I don’t think it matters.

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My friends in Europe saw the clip.

They are convinced that the US needs to be isolated until the Republicans are completely driven out of power.

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Shame on any citizen of Chinese or Asian ancestry who votes for Trump, especially the ones who justify it by saying “But I’m not one of THOSE Chinese!”. With each passing day, he further assures his own defeat. I’m not defending the Chinese government or its policies, of course, but this is just baiting.

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I was watching Velshi yesterday when Navarro came on. I turned him off.

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Stop inviting these people on to shows! If a person is just going to outright lie and doge questions the viewer is not ‘informed’ by this. The MSM is not doing some great service here. All they are doing is giving a platform for disingenuous actors to spread propaganda.

Politicians need the media just as much as the MSM needs them. If someone is just going to make up whatever bullshit they think will give them a ‘win’ for any question then they don’t deserve the media attention. No one is owed a platform. Either come on the show and play ‘fair’, or they don’t get to play at all. Right now there is NO incentive to not lie and spread bullshit in our media. The MSM needs to stop rewarding the lying. Make them have some consequences for lying by taking their camera time away.

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If the Chinese are responsible for every bad thing that has happened to the U.S. recently, does that mean they are responsible for Trump becoming POTUS? I thought it was the Russians.

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What would they do if they didn’t have a bogeyman to blame?

China, Antifa, BLM, Democrats, the Squad, the Federal Reserve Chairman, the deep state, Inspectors General, Strzok and Page, anarchists, and the list goes on and on and on.

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Hey Trumpian Enabler Navarro…

Keep passing the buck as a distraction to your maggoted MAGAs

But for the rest of WeThePeople…
We know that your Dear Orange Putin Puppet asked Illegal help from China to win the 2020 elections in exchange for trade concessions…another QPQ…another crime!

Did he beg bigly?

Addendum:

Another Trump enabler who is clearly a greedy & ghoulish (coffin trademark from China) nepotistist + trumpian liar/gaslighter + shameless hypocrite:

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Yes, the Chinese government f’ed up (while Trump was complementing them on what a great job Xi was doing). But every other country, with the possible exception of Brazil, has contained the virus much, much better than the US. That’s on Trump and no one else.

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Go f#ck yourself, Navarro. The days of you and your team’s racist a*hole xenophobic narcissistic do nothing except express lies and foment division and anger pathetic and worthless leadership is almost over.

Oh and have a happy 4th of July.

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Navarro is becoming more and more unhinged as the days go by. There’s really no reason to put this demented crank on television and give him a forum.

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Over time this will become the “American Plague” and be remembered as such. Sure, it started in China and they royally fucked up in the beginning. But here in the U.S. we did so much more than China, or any other country, to magnify the problem through months of incompetence. China fucked it up for a couple of weeks, but got control of it within about two months after. We continued to fuck it up for many months after we knew what was happening, and in full view of the entire world.

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Needed some mask, finally found them. You know where they came from? Canada…There is a reason for that

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Why does anyone think that assigning blame = solving the problem?

What fools these mortals be.

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Dingleberry Whine?




Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie

Periodic reminder that Peter Navarro was regarded as a political gadfly and all-around dingleberry in San Diego for years before he was tapped to lie for this administration, and that he has an established habit of making up academic experts for his books

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Sadly I have to agree 100%

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Peter Navarro graduated with honors from Trump University with a degree in Advanced Sycophancy and Grovelling.

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In those days he called himself “Ron Vara”.

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“The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for every bad thing we’re experiencing right now.”

So, the Chinese sent Navarro to us? I didn’t know that.

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