During a discussion with the Council on Foreign Relations, Trump lackey Peter Navarro got nasty when the Q&A portion began because he was asked to explain their many controversial positions.
Navarro’s responses never answered any of the questions and he was particularly hostile to the final one by Sarah Williamson, the CEO of FCLT Global dealing who asked why they’ve gutted all research funding in this country, which stifles innovation, growth and foreign experts coming to the country.
WILLIMASON: : This is Sarah Williamson, the CEO of FCLT Global. And I think we’d all probably agree that innovation has been the driver of economic growth in this country for many decades, and the administration is now cutting and redirecting funding for scientific research, which has been the catalyst for this innovation, and is also in some cases dissuading scientists from coming to the United States.
And meanwhile, China is investing heavily in innovation. So how does this align with the goals of driving the U.S. economy forward?
NAVARRO: Look, I’ll be honest.
When I hear that, it just sounds like an op-ed from industry. I mean, I get it, but there’s much bigger issues involved in the way universities over the last decades have used and sometimes abused government funding.
