https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206670426832867328
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-robert-lighthizer-on-face-the-nation-december-15-2019/
Host Margaret Brennan reacts with appropriate skepticism to Trump official claim that China will more than double its US agriculture purchases over next two years. 2/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206670718672482306
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Lighthizer responds to this very specific question from Margaret Brennan with a great spray of misdirecting blather. 3/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206671024403730432
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Some minutes later, Brennan yanks Lighthizer back to reality about the $50 billion claim. 4/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206671225826754560
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And here is the exact moment where the scam is executed that will drive false headlines. 5/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206671644183453696
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What is "in writing" according to Lighthizer is not the Chinese promise. What is "in writing" is the Trump administration wish list! 6/n
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It's the Trump *wish list* that adds up to the huge numbers spouted by Lighthizer. But the misleading way in which Lighthizer spoke generated headlines like 7/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206673225297596416
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This is tough for reporters, I get it. But when you are dealing with people who have proven they cannot be trusted - you should not report on them as if they were trustworthy. 8/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206674560638173193
Trump tariffs cost the typical US household $800 a year, wiping out almost all the benefit that the typical family got from the 2017 tax cut. 9/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206676089420099587
Trump tariffs were cushioned by a $28 billion bailout to US farmers, DOUBLE what the US auto sector got in 2009. The US auto sector repaid its bailout. The farmers never will. 10/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206676387073011722
The IMF estimates that the Trump tariffs did $700 billion of damage to the world economy - including driving Japan to edge of recession. 11/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206676745161711622
Trump officials are anxious to create the appearance that their trade policy is something better than a fiasco, that they scored some big win. That's why they announced the "deal" without releasing the deal's text: to create an opportunity to misrepresent and mislead 12/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206677593874939905
Trump officials are anxious to create the appearance that their trade policy is something better than a fiasco, that they scored some big win. That's why they announced the "deal" without releasing the deal's text: to create an opportunity to misrepresent and mislead 12/n
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1206677593874939905
The administration has attempted this scam again and again. And why not? It keeps working.
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