Even Eric Bolling Bashes Trump's Tariffs
Eric Bolling got fired from Fox News because of inappropriate texting to colleagues. Plenty of room for him, though, on Real America's Voice.
Bolling told White House Deputy Press Secretary Harrison that he felt the Trump tariff calculations were made up garbage and had nothing to do with actual tariffs.
Bolling comes from the Fox Business side of the company, and he made it clear to Fields that Trump didn't even know what the tariff percentages were.
BOLLING: I've been doing this a long time. I've been doing numbers. I've been doing statistics. The guys will tell you, I crunch numbers like crazy.
Within a couple hours of the announcement of the tariffs, and Howard Lutnick brought out that big board with the numbers, and I was looking at it, and it just wasn't working for me. And when it doesn't work up here for me, I know something's wrong with the numbers.
I had figured out that the methodology to come up with the tariff that we were going to slap on other countries had nothing to do with an actual tariff, or half of what they're doing. It had to do with our trade imbalance number divided by the amount of exports that country was putting into our country.
And for me, I was just like, can't Howard just come up with a real— I literally called the White House and said, guys, I figured this out. I need you guys to get in front of it before the left figures out and holds you accountable to it, and they did.