Critics: Trump camp peddling ‘rosy view’ of economic history to justify tariffs

With the presidential campaign entering its final sprint, economists and others -- including former Republican lawmakers -- are publicly challenging former President Donald Trump’s interpretation of U.S. economic history, saying the candidate’s campaign is espousing what one called a “rosy view” of the role of tariffs in the country’s development to justify his proposals. “They sort of use it as a legitimating device to justify what they're doing,” Douglas Irwin, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and the author...