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Musk spars with Trump trade adviser in escalating tariff spat

Tech billionaire Elon Musk called President Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro "truly a moron" Tuesday, escalating their spat over the administration's import taxes.

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“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote on the social platform X in response to a video of Navarro discussing Tesla’s assembly process for its electric vehicles.

Navarro, in the CNBC interview, claimed Musk’s Tesla is not a “car manufacturer,” but rather a “car assembler” that puts together parts from other countries.

Tesla, led by Musk, has long touted itself as a leader in U.S. domestic production. The company produces all of its North American vehicles in the U.S. at factories in California and Texas, though some of its parts come from outside the........

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