Peter Navarro’s rant over India’s Russian oil trade flagged on X. He slams Musk over ‘crap note’
Peter Navarro was fact-checked by a community of X users, who pointed out that India’s oil trade with Russia was “for energy security, not just profit”.
White House advisor Peter Navarro had a meltdown on Sunday after one of his posts targeting India on its Russian oil purchase was flagged by a community note on X. Per usual, Navarro had targeted India’s trade with Russia, alleging that it was “purely to profit/Revenues feed Russia war machine”.
However, this time he was fact-checked by a community of X users, who pointed out that the oil trade was “for energy security, not just profit”, adding that it didn’t violate any sanctions.
“While India has some tariffs, the US has a trade surplus with it in services. US also continues to import certain commodities from Russia which is hypocritical,” the note further said.
Dismissing the community note as “crap”, Navarro lashed out at Elon Musk for “letting propaganda into people’s posts”, and yet again accused India of profiteering from the oil trade with Russia.
“That crap note below is just that. Crap. India buys Russia oil solely to profiteer. It didn’t buy any before Russia invaded Ukraine. Indian govt spin machine moving high tilt. Stop killing Ukranians. Stop taking American jobs,” Navarro wrote.
