This is so staggeringly dishonest. Not “wrong,” though it is that too, but dishonest because he knows the truth. Indeed he often says the point of the tariffs is to get people to stop buying foreign goods. That’s what tariffs are — taxes on Americans who buy foreign goods. That foreign producers are mad that we’re taxing their customers out of buying their products is not shocking nor is it proof that we’re not taxing Americans. He knows this and he is simply lying. That Lara Trump nods along is not shocking, I just don’t care enough about her view to know whether she’s lying or ignorant. But Bessent isn’t ignorant, ergo he’s lying.