White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took a swipe at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during Tuesday’s daily briefing, pointing to the California Congresswoman’s previous statements on tariffs and saying that President Donald Trump was only doing what she’d suggested.
Leavitt referenced Pelosi’s stance on tariffs — and specifically, the United States’ trade deficit with communist China — from nearly 30 years earlier, and argued that she should be pleased with the “retaliatory tariff” the Trump administration was placing on China.
Pelosi, in a recently-recirculated clip from 1996, stood on the House floor and laid out her reasoning for hitting back at China economically — among them the fact that China placed an average tariff of 35% on all goods coming from the United States, and only allowed some 2% of U.S. exports to cross the border into the…
