Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - April 02, 2025


The Truth About Tariffs - Liberation Day in America

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Trump Spencer Morrison Soros Max Reshore Maha Gini Susan Crawford Anno Domini Rich Barris Elon Musk Maloney Besson Bush
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Alyssa Milano wins a seat on Florida s Supreme Court, and President Trump praises her victory. President Trump announces new tariffs on steel and aluminum, and calls for a border patrol raid on a Mexican immigrant's home. Meanwhile, liberal judge Susan Crawford defeats a primary challenge from a conservative challenger in Wisconsin.

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00:00:49.420 Christ is king.
00:00:50.400 Liberal judge Susan Crawford has won the race for a seat on the state Supreme Court.
00:00:55.160 And President Trump making a post following the results of Florida special elections,
00:00:59.720 saying, quote, both Florida House seats have been won big by the Republican candidate.
00:01:04.600 Wisconsin's voter ID law is now part of the state constitution.
00:01:08.200 This was locked up early tonight.
00:01:09.560 All five of us on this set tonight can look you in the eye and say that if you committed
00:01:13.540 any of those crimes, then you should be deported immediately.
00:01:16.460 You should serve your sentence and go home immediately.
00:01:18.160 But they were let in.
00:01:19.260 But I'm going to finish.
00:01:19.840 That's the bottom line.
00:01:20.700 You're more concerned about the one guy that was deported than the millions of people that
00:01:26.500 were led illegally that went on to wreak havoc in cities like mine.
00:01:29.860 President Trump will be joined by auto and steel workers, as well as top Republicans, as
00:01:34.560 he announces his reciprocal tariffs at the White House later today.
00:01:38.180 And those tariffs are set to go in effect immediately.
00:01:40.700 The real pain economically has been the massive inflation coming from bloated overspending
00:01:46.740 here in Washington, D.C.
00:01:48.380 That is the real pain that the American people have felt the last four years.
00:01:51.740 Of 132 different countries and 600,000 different products, U.S. exporters pay higher tariffs
00:02:01.260 on two thirds of those products.
00:02:04.920 You see $4 trillion in investment already in President Trump's first two months.
00:02:09.900 You see trading partners coming to the table, wanting to renegotiate.
00:02:13.980 We have Liberation Day, as you know, on April 2nd.
00:02:19.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:02:22.560 Today is April 2nd, 2025.
00:02:24.940 Anno Dominique.
00:02:26.400 Folks, last night was a gut punch.
00:02:29.440 Wisconsin Supreme Court race went blue.
00:02:31.660 And we lost a chance to shift the balance in a key battleground state.
00:02:36.480 And we got a few shots in.
00:02:38.020 Florida predictably went our way.
00:02:40.400 Voter ID in Wisconsin passed.
00:02:42.320 Huge W.
00:02:43.080 But in this house of cards, you need a lot more than layups to prevent collapse.
00:02:46.980 We need more patriots, more activation, more commitment to make this mandate a reality.
00:02:51.640 This isn't about money.
00:02:53.780 Elon Musk and his PACs poured over $20 million into this fight.
00:02:57.600 Actually outspent Soros.
00:02:58.900 And it wasn't enough.
00:02:59.680 Our base didn't show up.
00:03:01.980 And the Democrats ran their playbook better.
00:03:04.300 So this is a wake-up call for MAGA.
00:03:06.640 You can't rely on big names like Trump or Elon to carry us in every off-cycle election.
00:03:12.880 You need a machine that fights every single race down to the local level. 0.99
00:03:18.180 Look at Soros.
00:03:19.180 He's been playing the game for decades.
00:03:21.440 Funding every tiny governance role from mayors to school boards.
00:03:25.000 Building systems that are hard to crack.
00:03:27.040 Even local libraries like we talked about in Unhumans.
00:03:30.820 As Autism Capital, on X, said today, we need to Soros Max.
00:03:36.820 Match that energy with a full-time operation that lives and breathes local elections.
00:03:44.260 Something the Republican ethos has always shied away from but can't ignore anymore.
00:03:49.720 Look, Soros wins because he's a shadow.
00:03:51.820 He pulls the strings quietly while we're out here making it all about personalities.
00:03:57.020 The GOP still doesn't understand the Trump coalition.
00:04:00.720 You need to engage working-class voters.
00:04:02.880 Not talk down to them.
00:04:04.460 We need to actually show who we are and that we are fighting for them.
00:04:08.660 And this is the fatal mistake.
00:04:09.700 I talked about this last night.
00:04:10.660 The GOP did not engage the Maha movement.
00:04:15.800 Make America healthy again.
00:04:17.440 Had the momentum.
00:04:18.580 Focusing on issues like nutrition and big money in healthcare.
00:04:21.840 And they were left on the sidelines.
00:04:25.160 Maha could have brought in new voters. 0.99
00:04:26.940 Especially with RFK Jr.'s message about exposing corruption.
00:04:30.180 The health agencies.
00:04:31.240 The GOP didn't tap into that energy.
00:04:33.620 We are playing catch-up against a machine that has been Soros for years.
00:04:38.320 And last night proved that you can't win by just showing up on Election Day.
00:04:43.280 You got to vote early.
00:04:44.340 You need to invest.
00:04:45.500 You need the infrastructure.
00:04:46.720 You need to build your own army starting now.
00:04:49.960 Turning point action.
00:04:51.460 Cliff Maloney.
00:04:52.300 Early vote action.
00:04:53.640 That is the way.
00:04:55.440 Ladies and gentlemen, we need two Soros Max. 0.78
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00:06:48.420 So, when we're looking at today, what is today all about for President Trump?
00:06:54.020 Tariff day. 0.92
00:06:55.280 Liberation day.
00:06:56.140 Israel, supposedly, just dropped all their tariffs on American goods.
00:07:01.160 I mean, here there's some rumors about China wanting to, or excuse me, Canada wanting to drop theirs.
00:07:06.340 China, of course, not dropping anything and their barriers to entry.
00:07:09.300 Why did Israel have tariffs on America to begin with? 0.51
00:07:13.660 Don't we give Israel like a ton of money and military aid?
00:07:17.000 Interesting questions.
00:07:18.200 Interesting questions.
00:07:19.520 But when it really comes down to it, it's a great example.
00:07:22.500 It's an example of how America has been taken for granted.
00:07:24.860 The working class has been taken for granted so much in this country where the Gini coefficient has gone completely haywire.
00:07:34.460 What's the Gini coefficient?
00:07:35.260 That is the ratio of who has money, of wealth at the top to wealth at the bottom.
00:07:41.680 Right now, the wealth is totally consolidated at the top and the wealth at the bottom has shrunk.
00:07:47.960 The middle class has fallen out in this country. 0.77
00:07:51.000 Working class has fallen out.
00:07:52.820 And you go look at, so, the idea of reconstructuring and reconfiguring the global economy.
00:07:59.220 But this has been something, obviously, that we've been talking about here on the program for a while.
00:08:04.140 And this is President Trump's grand strategy.
00:08:06.960 The foreign affairs are totally tied into this.
00:08:09.820 Winding down in the war in Ukraine is tied into this.
00:08:12.420 Bringing Russia on board with rapprochement with China vis-a-vis this new Sino-Soviet split, 0.54
00:08:19.100 the Sino-Soviet 2.0 split that we've been talking about here.
00:08:22.180 But when we're looking at tariffs, why do tariffs matter?
00:08:26.040 Tariffs matter because the system of globalization was predicated on this idea that we could outsource and offshore all of our production,
00:08:35.780 all of our manufacturing to places like China.
00:08:38.880 What does this do?
00:08:39.980 This builds up the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party.
00:08:43.160 Go back and listen to the China files.
00:08:44.640 The very final episode is where we talked about the rise of globalization from the blood of the cobblestone streets,
00:08:53.700 the cobblestones of Tiananmen Square, 1989, June 4th.
00:08:58.880 And you can read Unhumans.
00:09:00.560 In that book, we talk about this as well.
00:09:02.920 The Chinese Communist Party was given an idea, was given a deal, essentially,
00:09:07.620 from the first Bush administration, Scowcroft going over on the secret mission to say,
00:09:11.280 all right, you're going to be the factory of the world,
00:09:14.520 and we're going to provide you the IP and the foreign direct investment in order to become that factory.
00:09:20.480 CCP said, no problem.
00:09:21.860 We'll get the Lao Baixing to be these factory, you know, work slaves. 1.00
00:09:25.580 Then you go out.
00:09:26.800 And what does it do?
00:09:27.420 It hollows out the middle class in the United States, hollows out our towns, hollows out our cities, 0.99
00:09:34.020 hollows out middle America.
00:09:36.220 And yet people get addicted to the foreign baubles from China,
00:09:40.040 which is what we talked about yesterday.
00:09:41.280 So, yeah, you can have your big screen TV, and you can have your little,
00:09:45.520 your little, your newest iPhone, newest Samsung, you know.
00:09:49.940 Yes, I know Samsung's are Korea, but this is my point. 0.97
00:09:52.700 The point is, you need to understand what's happening to the world around you, okay?
00:09:59.160 They want you locked in this, like, virtual chamber,
00:10:01.960 because they don't want you actually interacting with the real world.
00:10:04.960 They don't care if it's flooded by fentanyl.
00:10:07.780 They don't care if the opium dens of the modern age of the 21st century have become your own home.
00:10:15.060 They don't care about the deaths of despair that are running roughshod across middle America.
00:10:20.180 Why?
00:10:21.260 Because they look at you as a consumer.
00:10:23.620 They look at you as just another economic zone, another economic market for there to apply their goods.
00:10:30.060 And China loves it because they're making money every time they sell something.
00:10:33.520 The U.S. companies love it.
00:10:34.900 Silicon Valley loves it because you're just, you're just a wage slave. 0.95
00:10:38.780 You're just a wage slave. 0.99
00:10:40.240 They're extracting money from and splitting it with the Chinese communist leaders,
00:10:44.620 as well as leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and the leaders of Silicon Valley.
00:10:47.820 That's the system we currently live under.
00:10:50.220 The other option that President Trump is offering is to say,
00:10:54.980 guys, what if, what if we actually make America wealthy again?
00:11:01.720 So he says it all the time at the rallies.
00:11:04.640 There was an entire day at the RNC in Milwaukee dedicated to this.
00:11:08.260 But it's something, and we talked about this with Rich Barris the other day,
00:11:11.260 where I want people to understand better.
00:11:15.000 And I want the message to get out there better.
00:11:17.820 Yes, that does mean you might pay $1 or $2 extra for certain goods.
00:11:23.140 But guess what?
00:11:24.300 You're paying for that Made in America sticker on the bottom.
00:11:27.780 You're paying for it to say Made in America again.
00:11:30.540 And you're going to see that when things are made in America, guess what? 0.76
00:11:34.300 The money stays here in our nation.
00:11:37.060 The money stays in the community.
00:11:39.360 We're going to invest in America by actually making the jobs good again,
00:11:45.180 by making the manufacturing be strong again, by making all of this do well again.
00:11:50.680 Is there going to be a little bit of pain?
00:11:52.320 Is there going to be a little, look, are we going to have to, you know,
00:11:54.620 are we going to have to take our vitamins?
00:11:56.040 Yeah, we are.
00:11:56.680 We're going to have to take our vitamins.
00:11:57.760 We're going to have to take our medicine because that's how it works.
00:12:01.000 That's how you get off of an addiction is through withdrawal.
00:12:04.200 You have to go through that process.
00:12:06.200 And that process is going to come.
00:12:08.160 And you're going to see a lot of people that are totally beholden to this system,
00:12:12.100 totally and completely beholden to this system say,
00:12:15.060 whoa, whoa, wait a minute, you know, you're hurting the Chamber of Commerce.
00:12:20.620 Won't someone please think of the poor, poor Chamber of Commerce?
00:12:24.600 Won't someone please think of, you know, the poor, poor, you know,
00:12:31.260 the poor, poor folks that are sitting there?
00:12:33.580 And so I wanted to bring on someone who's actually written an entire book about this.
00:12:40.800 It's called, his name is Spencer Morrison.
00:12:42.220 He's the author of Reshore, How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home
00:12:47.060 and Revive the American Dream.
00:12:49.800 Spencer, do we have you?
00:12:51.940 Hi, Jack, you have me.
00:12:53.460 It's a pleasure to be here.
00:12:54.500 Hey, that's great.
00:12:55.160 So we got about two minutes till the break.
00:12:57.780 So tell us just a little bit about the book,
00:13:00.320 and then we'll come back and get into it more.
00:13:03.240 I'll give you the 30-second pitch here.
00:13:05.340 So this book, we couldn't have planned a better timing for it,
00:13:08.600 but what this book is, it's all about how tariffs are going to reshore the factories
00:13:15.260 from third-world countries.
00:13:17.020 And it ties great into Liberation Day because a big part of the book is describing
00:13:22.000 all of the non-economic harms and consequences that have occurred due to offshoring.
00:13:27.440 The biggest one being that we're totally dependent on China at this stage for critical components
00:13:33.880 that impact our national security and our well-being, right?
00:13:37.620 So we import our computer chips, we import steel, we import automobile parts, the whole shebang.
00:13:43.720 So, I mean, Liberation Day couldn't come soon enough, Jack.
00:13:46.520 No, that's exactly right.
00:13:50.300 And so when we look at this, I think people want to throw around,
00:13:55.760 and there's certainly there's formulas, people could talk about it,
00:13:57.660 but it really just comes down to this.
00:13:59.280 The money stays in America.
00:14:01.140 When we're not sending the money overseas, the money stays in America,
00:14:05.280 and it stays with the Americans.
00:14:07.040 It really is as simple as that, isn't it?
00:14:09.440 That's exactly it.
00:14:10.440 You know, since 1974, we've actually sent $25 trillion abroad, $25 trillion.
00:14:17.940 All of that money should have been spent on American-made products.
00:14:21.300 I mean, imagine how rich this country would be if we had another $25 trillion in the bank.
00:14:25.360 It's crazy.
00:14:26.140 Imagine what our cities would look like.
00:14:28.240 Imagine what our towns would look like.
00:14:30.040 Imagine what our families would look like, by the way,
00:14:33.540 because family formation, of course, is tied to all of these things.
00:14:37.360 We'll be right back here at Human Events Daily.
00:14:39.180 It's Liberation Day.
00:14:40.440 Today, you know, you talk about influencers.
00:14:49.580 These are influencers, and they're friends of mine.
00:14:53.840 Jack, you're so like, where's Jack?
00:14:56.280 Jack, he's done a great job.
00:14:59.220 All right, folks, we're back here on Human Events Daily.
00:15:04.620 We're talking to the author of Reshore, all about how tariffs will bring our jobs home and revive the American dream.
00:15:14.580 His name is Spencer Morrison.
00:15:16.620 You can go and get the book.
00:15:18.760 I've got my copy.
00:15:19.780 This is fantastic because what we're getting into, the manufacturing, how it ties to the healthy middle class.
00:15:27.580 Talking about how wealth exports hurt American prosperity.
00:15:31.860 And talking, of course, about the cultural impacts for diet, fewer marriages.
00:15:36.820 All of these things are downstream.
00:15:39.720 But Spencer, talk to me a little bit about these myths regarding tariffs that really you get from these free traders, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the rest.
00:15:48.880 Well, I think one of the biggest myths that's trotted out time and time again is that prices are going to increase.
00:15:56.980 And there's two things that I'd like to mention in relation to prices.
00:16:00.680 Okay.
00:16:01.180 The first thing is that prices are not going to increase, at least not in the long run.
00:16:08.160 Anytime you have a big policy shift, there may be some economic dislocation.
00:16:12.020 And that's okay.
00:16:12.840 And that's expected.
00:16:13.600 But just look back at 2016 when President Trump instituted tariffs in his first term.
00:16:20.900 Did consumer prices increase?
00:16:23.320 No.
00:16:24.360 In fact, the cost of living went down, right?
00:16:27.560 So this idea that tariffs are like an automatic sales tax on everything is simply not true.
00:16:33.240 The reality is that consumers, if they want to avoid the tariff, they can simply buy American.
00:16:38.200 They don't pay any tax.
00:16:39.420 I'll tell you what.
00:16:39.980 I wish most taxes, I wish all taxes were avoidable.
00:16:42.720 Now, tariffs are like the only avoidable tax that we have.
00:16:47.100 You can't avoid income tax.
00:16:48.280 You can't avoid property tax.
00:16:49.820 You can avoid tariffs.
00:16:51.080 And it's a simple solution.
00:16:52.100 All you have to do is buy American.
00:16:53.680 Now, the second point here is that tariffs, they sort of shift the economy away from consumption into production.
00:17:01.540 And this is a really good thing.
00:17:02.940 Because most people, you know, work for a living, right?
00:17:06.960 So if tariffs are creating millions of jobs by reshoring the factories, what we'll see is an increase in the available disposable income of people, right?
00:17:17.780 They always talk about, oh, these free trade goods, they're cheap goods.
00:17:21.600 Well, the goods aren't so cheap when you don't have a job or when your wage is directly competing with somebody in China, right?
00:17:29.080 What we get is a race to the bottom.
00:17:31.100 Tariffs are going to end that. 0.99
00:17:32.220 They're going to make this trade, you know, that's asymmetrical right now.
00:17:37.240 Tariffs will make it free and fair. 0.94
00:17:39.060 And that's going to allow Americans to compete on solid ground. 0.52
00:17:46.960 The idea that, and this is so big, because it's not about this idea of free trade.
00:17:52.320 It's not even fair trade.
00:17:53.140 What it is, it's balanced trade.
00:17:54.540 We had Secretary Besson on earlier this week, and that's exactly, or excuse me, one week ago.
00:17:59.640 And that's exactly what we were talking about, the idea of balancing trade back, getting it to that point.
00:18:06.020 So President Trump, obviously, is going to be given this huge press conference later today.
00:18:10.640 What are some of the things you're going to be looking for there?
00:18:13.760 I just want to go back to the issue of balanced trade.
00:18:17.460 What people don't tell you is that we pay for all of the goods that we buy.
00:18:23.500 We run a trade deficit.
00:18:24.920 All that means is that we're not trading goods or services for the goods or services that we import, right?
00:18:30.720 But we're still paying for it because China is not giving us anything for free.
00:18:33.960 So the question then, Jack, becomes, how do we pay for it?
00:18:37.100 And we pay for it in two ways.
00:18:38.680 We have to sell assets or we have to sell debt, right?
00:18:43.460 Since 1974, we've bought $25 trillion worth of goods.
00:18:50.660 And we've paid for all of that by selling ownership in American companies.
00:18:54.740 We've sold trillions of dollars of our real estate, which is driving up housing prices
00:18:59.540 and making it impossible for young people to get homes and to afford their rent.
00:19:04.220 And then we've piled on all of this debt to our national debt, right?
00:19:09.360 So you never get anything for free in the world, right?
00:19:12.280 You've got to pay for it.
00:19:13.180 And what we've done is we've prioritized these so-called cheap goods.
00:19:16.440 But what we've done is we've driven up housing prices.
00:19:18.700 We've driven up the cost of borrowing.
00:19:20.940 We've bought, you know, we've taken on all of this debt.
00:19:24.300 So the question then becomes, inflation of what?
00:19:27.720 If we're talking about inflation of consumer goods, it's like, okay.
00:19:31.080 But if we're not prioritizing the production of goods,
00:19:34.320 all we're doing is we're driving up the costs of the things we used to pay them with, right?
00:19:38.580 So you're going to get inflation no matter what.
00:19:40.820 So I think really it's just a big smoke show that the economic globalists are, you know, putting on, right?
00:19:48.160 When we look at this clearly, what we see is that tariffs are going to create jobs.
00:19:51.980 They're going to lower the cost of assets like houses. 0.88
00:19:54.980 And that's really going to prioritize the middle class. 1.00
00:19:57.680 I know that didn't answer your question, but it has to be said.
00:20:00.420 No, I think that absolutely answers the question.
00:20:03.140 The book is Reshore.
00:20:05.040 The author is Spencer Morrison.
00:20:07.340 Spencer, we're going to have to have you back on, man,
00:20:09.520 because I know that this is really going to be the topic going over the next couple months,
00:20:14.020 probably the next year.
00:20:15.000 You couldn't have released the book at a better time.
00:20:17.700 The book, again, folks, is Reshore, and the author is Spencer Morrison.