On Tuesday night’s episode of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Jim Scuitto spoke with Laura Barron-Lopez of PBS NewsHour and Reuter’s Jim Mason, who called President Trump “authoritarian” and blamed the MAGA movement for fundamentally changing the Republican Party for the worst, simply over the Trump administration’s tariff policies.
After a five minute conversation with Kevin O’Leary where the entrepreneur explained why Trump’s economic policy will actually bolster the economy and attract investors, Scuitto brought on his so-called “White House insiders” to discuss what these tariffs actually mean, undermining O’Leary’s entire interview and explanation as an investor of four decades.
The three keep referencing a sentence from a Truth Social post by the President, cutting up the lengthy post and reducing it only to one line, obviously taken out of context. The post warns large companies like Walmart to not attempt to cover VAT tax by charging consumers more for their products. The line “Walmart, eat the tax.” was continually taken out of context by both Barron-Lopez and Mason to imply that Trump is essentially telling the American people that they’re just going to have to suffer higher prices and to just get over it.
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