Rachel Maddow Explains the 'Ridiculous' True Story That Inspired Trump's Tariffs Plan | Video

To say the origins of Trump's sweeping international tariffs are dubious is an understatement, Rachel Maddow said on her MSNBC show on Friday night as she outlined exactly how we got here. Trump "came up with the idea" after the circulation of a "fake memo from a fake person with a fake email address," she explained. The memo in question was the brainchild of author and economist Peter Navarro - also the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing for the administration - who entered the Trump sphere after Jared Kushner found his book "Death by China" and asked him to join . . .