We’re finding out more, all the time, how Boss Hogg and his cronies came up with the bullshit numbers, used to justify his ‘tariff war’. Bottom line, he made them up, in his efforts at a power grab.

 A top economist was shocked to learn the Trump administration used his research to justify its hefty tariffs — insisting the White House got his formula “very wrong” and grossly miscalculated the levies for each country.

Brent Neiman, a University of Chicago economics professor, said in a New York Times op-ed that President Trump’s sweeping tariff regime should have been roughly four times less if Neiman’s study had been followed correctly.

The economic expert, who co-wrote the research with three other renowned economists, noted that his first question when Trump unveiled its tariff rates was: “How on earth did it calculate such huge rates?”