{"id":148784,"date":"2025-04-08T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/08\/did-fictional-character-ron-vara-craft-trumps-tariff-policies-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:10:57","slug":"did-fictional-character-ron-vara-craft-trumps-tariff-policies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/08\/did-fictional-character-ron-vara-craft-trumps-tariff-policies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Did fictional character Ron Vara \u2018craft\u2019 Trump\u2019s tariff policies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs are threatening to plunge the global economy, many claim that the US President\u2019s anti-China trade policies are based on the theories of a fake economics expert called Ron Vara, a fictional character invented and often cited by Trump\u2019s top trade advisor, Peter Navarro. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs are threatening to plunge the global economy, many claim that the US President\u2019s anti-China trade policies are based on the theories of a fake economics expert called Ron Vara, a fictional character invented and often cited by Trump\u2019s top trade advisor, Peter Navarro. We explain in this edition of Truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-148784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}