The White Home commerce adviser, Peter Navarro, on Monday levelled up his assault in opposition to India’s Russian oil buy after he was fact-checked by X (previously Twitter), owned by billionaire Elon Musk. In a publish on the social media platform, the US President Donald Trump’s aide claimed that New Delhi didn’t purchase oil from Moscow in massive portions earlier than the Ukraine battle.
Within the publish on X, Navarro, who serves because the Senior Counsellor for Commerce and Manufacturing for US President Trump, stated, “Extra b******* from X. Reality: India did not purchase Russian oil in massive portions earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine. It is blood cash and persons are dying.”
The White Home Adviser has been attacking India for a while now. He has been concentrating on New Delhi’s oil commerce with Moscow and defending the 50 per cent tariffs imposed by Trump on India.
Earlier in August, the US President signed an govt order imposing a further 25 % tariff on imports from India, citing the nation’s continued oil commerce with Russia. This introduced the entire of the tariff to 50 %.
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In the meantime, earlier, after being corrected over spreading misinformation pertaining to India’s buy of Russian oil, Navarro dismissed the neighborhood notes on X and accused it of serving “international pursuits” that meddle in home US economics and politics.
In a sequence of posts on X, Navarro known as the neighborhood notes “crap”, which fact-checked his publish on Friday (native time), the place he accused India of profiteering from Russian oil, alongside alleging that New Delhi’s tariffs price “Individuals’ jobs”.
He challenged X’s content material moderation insurance policies and launched a ballot to gauge person opinions, escalating his feud with the social media platform after being corrected on his earlier publish.
His response got here to an earlier publish the place he had accused India of profiteering from Russian oil in his newest slew of remarks, alongside alleging that India’s tariffs price “Individuals’ jobs”.
(with ANI inputs)