Sarah Huckabee Sanders Embarrasses Herself While Defending Trump’s Economic Policy

During an appearance on a, b, c News with  host Jonathan Carl, this past weekend,   Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders was  put in her place when she attempted to defend   Donald Trump's plan to put a 10% tariff on  every single good coming into this country.   And what happened was that originally they were  talking about Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney coming   out saying they're gonna vote for Kamala  Harris. And so Sarah Huckabee Sanders went   into a little spiel about how these people  are not real conservatives now, which then   prompted host Jonathan Carl to say this. Donald  Trump is talking about widespread tariffs,   tariffs on virtually everything that is imported  into the United States, big tariffs. It's become   almost a centerpiece of his economic message right  now. How is that conservative? I mean, I've been   covering politics for a long time. Conservatives  usually don't like taxes, don't like tariffs. Now,   Trump is talking about them all the time. So  Huckabee Sanders laid the trap for herself,   said, these people aren't real conservatives.  And Jonathan Carl was like, how is Trump a   conservative then? Because he's going against  everything conservative stand for by wanting to   raise taxes, tariffs. And to that, Sarah Huckabee  Sanders embarrassed herself by responding. Quote,   this is a president who uses that as a tool  to hold others' feet to the fire. He wants to   make sure that we're actually making things in  America. There's nothing more conservative than   empowering Americans and American companies to  build things here versus building them overseas. I'm going to stop right there and correct  her because conservatives are the people who,   by the way, paved the way for us to  outsource jobs all over the place,   actually giving companies a tax break for  outsourcing jobs. So you fail on that front.   You're the party of busting up labor unions that  had kept the middle class in this country intact   for decades. And of course, by keeping  it intact, by having strong labor unions,   we kept jobs here in America and we built our  own things. Reagan came along in the 1980s,   put the kibosh on that, and that's when  the big era of outsourcing and importing   goods came to fruition. So no conservatives have  historically been the anti-labor, anti-worker,   anti made in America people. Not to mention the  fact Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that if you buy any   one of Donald Trump's cheap products, they aren't  made in America. Look at the tag on your MAGA   hat and tell me where that came from. But she  continued. We have to quit becoming completely   dependent and relying on people who hate us,  people like China, people like Russia, people like   Iran. We have a pre, you know what, let me stop  right there. I don't mean to insult anybody with This, this, but, um, are we really sitting here  being like, you know, we gotta stop bringing in   goods from Russia and Iran. W when, when  was the last time anybody here went out   and bought the latest piece of technology  from Russia or Iran? I mean China. Yeah,   we get a lot of goods from China. We get a  lot of goods from Japan as well. Um, but I   I, I don't think that, um, we're really breaking  the bank here, importing, , all of these   consumer goods from Russia and Iran, unless you're  talking about energy, which of course is sold on   the global market. So that comes from all over  the place, in which case your statement doesn't   hold true. But, you know, don't let facts get in  the way of a good talking point, right? Sarah? She   continues. We have a president now who has allowed  himself to be completely walked all over and a   vice president who has been right there by his  side, allowing other countries to take the lead. As we move into the next four  years in this next administration,   we have to decide who do we want to be?  The, the world leaders. Do we want it to   be the United States or do we want it to be our  adversaries like China, like Russia? Frankly,   I don't want it to be them. I want it to be the  United States. And there's only one person and   one president and one administration who's  done that before and will do it again. And   it's Donald Trump. We certainly cannot count  on Vice President Harris to build back American   strength when she's never demonstrated  a capability of doing that in the past. I see your lies followed you all the way  from the White House to Arkansas there,   Sarah, remember when Donald Trump promised us  all those jobs, right? The carrier jobs, the air   conditioning company, like, oh, we're bringing all  them jobs back. And then it never ever happened.   Oh, we're bringing all those Ford jobs back.  Nope, that didn't happen either. Oh, but we   got Foxconn in Wisconsin. All those jobs, Nope.  Also didn't happen. Everything she is saying about   Donald Trump and his record on jobs, his record on  creating jobs, saving jobs, keeping jobs, it's all   false. Every single bit of it. And it's verifiably  false. And that's why I love it so much, because   these are not just pieces of insider information  that nobody else is privy to. So you can lie about   it. 'cause you know, you can't be fact-check.  No, these are things, Sarah, that anyone with   internet access, which most people are walking  around with, that literally in their pockets,   they can fact check you and they can see that you  are lying. And that's kind of why it drives me a   little bit crazy when Jonathan Carl doesn't call  you out on that again, Foxconn Ford carrier, the   big three from when Donald Trump was president,  promising to bring those jobs to the United   States and none of them materialized. Not to  mention, of course, the issue at hand is tariffs. You know, you, you went off on this  tar about, oh, we're gonna have jobs   here or we gotta have tariffs. Do you know  what happened when Donald Trump raised the   tariffs on certain goods coming into the  United States that were either products or   components to build products? Do you know what  happened to the price of the goods that were,   uh, manufactured solely in the United States? Not  relying on any of the parts, uh, parts, excuse me,   that were coming from overseas with tariffs  on 'em. The cost of those goods rose by the   same amount as the foreign goods. Again, another  thing you can look up and easily verify. Again,   it's not like I'm privy to information  that that's not publicly available. Here's why that happens and here's why this  would be a disaster if Trump gets into office   and does the 10% tariff on all goods coming into  this country, in order to remain competitive,   if a foreign supplier has to raise their prices  for us consumers to account for the tariffs they   have to pay, which is what they do, they pass it  on to us producers of American goods, let's say   washing machines. I think that's the best example,  uh, because that's one product that saw this   during Donald Trump's first tariffs. Say you got  a washing machine manufactured in China, they ship   it over here to sell it at your local, uh, uh,  hardware store. So they have to raise their prices   by a hundred bucks per washing machine in order  to account for the tariffs. But then you have a   washing machine that is produced and manufactured  a hundred percent in the United States. No foreign goods, no foreign  labor. Boom. So you would think,   oh, well this one's automatically gonna be  a hundred dollars cheaper, right? No. See,   the American companies also raise their prices  by the same amount that the foreign companies   raise their prices because the US manufacturers  don't wanna be seen as making an inferior product,   which is why it's obviously selling for less.  They are so greedy that they're trying to blame   their price hikes, which shouldn't have happened  at all on the psyche of the American consumers,   which maybe it's true to a degree where we view  the higher price as the better product. So they   suddenly look around and all these foreign  products are a hundred dollars more than,   why is this one so cheap? Uh, it must be crap.  Maybe there's some truth to it. But either way,   can, uh, uh, American companies still did that.  And they would do the same with Donald Trump's   tariffs, which of course economists say would  raise prices for the average American family by   about $2,000 per year, which I think is a very  conservative estimate because that would mean   that Americans are only purchasing $20,000  a year with goods, with any part at all made   in a foreign country, which simply doesn't seem  right, but whatever, either way, a disaster for   American consumers, just like this interview  was a disaster for Sarah Huckabee Sanders.