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.