Fox's Charles Gasparino Admits Tariffs Are Taxes Passed To Consumers

You could tell Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade was none too happy with Fox Business regular Charles Gasparino for telling the truth about these Trump tariffs. During a segment this Monday, where Kilmeade was carrying on about how great these tariffs are going to be (they're not) which were announced during Trump's batshit crazy presser over the weekend, Kilmeade asked Gasparino for his thoughts on the announcement, and Gasparino proceeded to throw cold water all over Kilmeade's happy talk:

CHARLES GASPARINO (FOX BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT): The stuff that they're buying from us, they probably would have bought anyway, Brian, to be real honest with you. They're cutting back on Russian natural gas, obviously for a lot of reasons. They're building out their military because of Russian expansionism. So that -- they were going to do that anyway. And when you say we get 15%, true, but that means U.S. consumers are paying 15% more too. So, it's kind of like a tax increase on U.S. consumers. That's one way to look at this.

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