Lawrence O’Donnell Trump's tariffs raise prices for Americans, not foreign countries

assumption no it's not it's completely impossible what this article does do is prove to you how deep the actual intellectual rot is at the New York Times at the reporting and at the editorial level going all the way up to the top this is a big and important article for the New York Times tonight had to be examined by multiple editors to make its way into print and every one of them was completely cool with Donald Trump's Insanity about tariffs the New York Times was perfectly happy to put in print that Donald Trump's tariffs are quote taxing foreign Nations that lie that lie the New York Times let's stand unchallenged everyone working in the business section of New York Times is embarrassed by this everyone in the business section editors and reporters all know the truth about tariffs but they are not the reporters and editors who cover the Trump campaign and so they have no input into an article about tariffs in the campaign coverage none the New York Times and the rest of the news media has been enabling Donald Trump's lies about tariffs for 10 full years now and I used to think that they were doing that because Donald Trump was telling bigger lies than his lies about tariffs more destructive lies lies about elections lies that have gotten people killed and so for years I have been occasionally and only occasionally but but repeatedly pointing out Donald Trump's lies about tariffs multiple times a year it has been a very lonely Pursuit but now I know it is much much worse than I thought now I know that there are people working at the New York Times who believe Donald Trump when he says tariffs are taxing foreign Nations there are people at the New York Times who will allow that to go into print uncontested they have forgotten whatever it was they were supposed to learn in high school about tariffs and they let Donald Trump's tariff lies simply seep in to the political system seep into the very soil of American politics without ever examining or disputing Donald Trump's lies about terrorist lies that give people false hope about what's possible and that means that we should be sitting here tonight without absolutely no confidence that there is anyone anywhere working at ABC News who knows what a tariff is I didn't think that yesterday but I now think that is possible because of what the New York Times Obviously does not know about tariffs and I thought the New York Times was the best on this stuff the one person working at ABC News who I know knows what a tariff is is George stefanopoulos who worked on that issue as a staffer in the House of Representatives and then worked on that issue and many others in the white house with President Clinton but mature Stephanopoulos has no role in tomorrow night's debate hosted by ABC News so when Donald Trump lies about tariffs it will be vice president Harris's job alone with no help from the moderators to try to undo 10 years of lying to America about what a tariff is and who pays a tariff and that that is how unbalance this debate is going to be before it even starts KL Harris won't just have to fend off new Trump lies tomorrow night she will have to fend off 10 years of the accumulated weight of trump lying including on subjects that the news media has never made an attempt of any kind to challenge Donald Trump what's the toughest question you ever heard a reporter ask Donald Trump about tariffs the answer is none there has never been a TR a tough question put to Donald Trump about tffs 24 hours from now you will be hearing many commentators saying washing much of what Donald Trump has to say tomorrow night in that sense conel Harris won't just be debating Donald Trump tomorrow night she will also be debating the news media reviewers of the debate many of whom do not comprehend the fundamental facts of government like a tariff is not taxing foreign Nations we're going to be a tariff Nation it's not going to be a cost to you it's going to be a cost to another country so I'm a tariff president I'm not a tax increase president because we're going to lower your taxes when I'm back in the White House tariffs are taxes on you the reason no previous president ever wanted to be called a tariff president is that all of those presidents knew that Americans pay American tariffs and all of their voters knew that too Jes qu