Trump Blasted as He Destroys His Own Lawyers at Supreme Court

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0:57Michael Popok:Rupert Murdoch in the Wall Street Journal just sent a direct message to the United States Supreme Court and told them to take away Donald Trump's tariff powers because he doesn't have the power under the statute and he's using it to retaliate against perceived slights and enemies like Canada. Donald Trump got trolled by Ontario's Doug Ford with Reagan's own words about why tariffs are terrible and unpatriotic. And he fired back and used his tariff power, which he doesn't really have, to impose a 10 percent additional punitive punishment on Canada. The Wall Street Journal saw that and said the Reagan speech was right.

1:36Michael Popok:You shouldn't use tariffs. Reagan was a free trader. And you're using the tariff power that you don't have to punish your perceived political enemies. We've seen that already. Donald Trump has used it to punish Brazil, to punish Canada, to reward Argentina. And that's the reason the power of the tariff has to remain with Congress and under the Constitution and not with the president. But I love the fact that Rupert Murdoch is trolling Donald Trump over being trolled by Ronald Reagan by Canada. Let's cover it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. You may have heard that Doug Ford over in Ontario decided to run an ad, spend$75 million or so with an ad buy, to run Ronald Reagan's famous speech from 1987, in which he, a classic free trader against tariffs, was telling the American people why tariffs are generally bad.

2:38Michael Popok:But in the case of Japan at the time, in the semiconductor chip market, he was proposing a tariff, explaining why in those unique circumstances he had abandoned his free trade ideals, but it was only for a limited purpose and limited time. And otherwise, he was a free trader. Well, Doug Ford wanted the American people, especially over the World Series weekend, to hear from Ronald Reagan. And when we have a November 5 oral argument for the United States Supreme Court. Now, Donald Trump has told the American people. Let me show you a clip of that ad and Doug Ford talking about it. Let's play the clip.

3:17When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time. But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the weight of prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition.

4:08America's jobs and growth are at stake. I heard that the president heard our ad. I'm sure he wasn't too happy, but it's real because it was coming from the best president the country's ever seen, Ronald Reagan. So it is. It's very effective. It's probably one of the best ads I've ever seen. And it's coming from Ronald Reagan's voice. And it's going to be focused right across the country, but also in Republican held areas, because what I feel, the Reagan Republicans are going to be fighting with a MAGA group. And let's hope Reagan Republicans win.

4:47Michael Popok:OK, down below, I'll give you the Reagan Foundation full speech if you think it was taken out of context. I don't see what context it was taken out of. But in any event, Donald Trump comes back and says, I have a power 10 percent penalty on Canada for running that ad. Here's what The Wall Street Journal had to say about all of that in their new editorial board posting against Donald Trump. And it's particularly a message to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court isn't likely to be influenced by anything other than the law, says The Wall Street Journal. but Mr. Trump's Canada eruption is a good argument for the justices to rein in his tariff power, which he doesn't have.

5:29Michael Popok:The president gets angry at a TV ad and imposes on a whim a 10 % tax on Americans who buy goods from their northern neighbor. Like when we say it's a tax on Canada, it's not a tax on Canada. It's a tax on Americans. It'll end up in their grocery list, their grocery bill and the rest. Mr. Trump claims he's not a king, but on tariffs he's acting like one. The Wall Street Journal continues, and without a proper delegation from Congress, as the Constitution requires. It's striking that Mr. Trump is so worried about a TV spot featuring a president who left the White House nearly 37 years ago. Don't you know what time it is?

6:10Michael Popok:As your apologists like to say, Mr. President, there's the trolling. Trump is wrong when he said on social media, the Wall Street Journal continues, that Ronald Reagan loved tariffs for purposes of national security and the economy. The Gipper, the nickname for Ronald Reagan, was a free trader. In the 1987 speech, Reagan was trying to explain why he was making an exception to his free trade policies on semiconductor imports from Japan. We remember the speech well, and its purpose was to head off a protectionist surge in Congress. The Gipper delivered it as a fear of Japanese economic dominance was reaching its political peak.

6:51Michael Popok:That could not, as the Wall Street Journal said, couldn't be more different than Mr. Trump, who wants tariffs as a policy rule, not the exemption. Reagan knew that tariffs are taxes, while Mr. Trump pretends they are paid by foreigners. Reagan knew protectionist barriers over time breed complacency and lack of innovation. You know what they say, first impressions matter. And whether I'm in court, on camera, or just heading out to meet friends, looking sharp isn't optional, it's essential. And staying well-groomed, that takes tools you can trust. For me, that's Harry's. I've been using Harry's for a while now, whether to clean up around my beard or when I'm clean-shaven, and I'm hooked.

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8:54Michael Popok:Nowhere in the body of that statute is the T word, tariffs. Never. It's been used like for Reagan to do an emergency tariff against a semiconductor chip war being led by Japan. But that was for a very short time. It was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court because it was seen as an appropriate, it was called a tariff, but it was seen as a fine or a punishment in that circumstance. Not 130 country tariff list. And Donald Trump says it's emergency. What was the emergency in order to trigger IEPA? In Japan, the emergency was they were swamping the chip market with cheap chips and putting our national security and computers at the time.

9:39Michael Popok:Back in 1987, national security is being undermined. We didn't have the chip companies we have now. Intel was present, was having problems battling it out with the Japanese. So Ronald Reagan stepped in. That's a real emergency. What's Donald Trump's emergency? to impose wholesale tariffs on every country in the world? We have a trade imbalance. A trade imbalance, first of all, he doesn't understand the word imbalance. When you add in goods and services, many of these countries, there was no trade imbalance. He meant a goods trade imbalance. And that's not an emergency. That's been a creeping problem for the last three administrations.

10:16Michael Popok:No emergency, no emergency powers. Get it? and then he just and then undermining his argument look what he's doing in places like brazil the 50 percent tariff on brazilians or on americans and brazilians by extension because they are they have prosecuted and are sentencing their trump bolsonaro for trying to overcome or overturn the will of the people and stop the peaceful transfer in in brazil what does it have to do with an emergency? He likes Bolsonaro. Okay. What is any of what Donald Trump is doing? Where's the$40 billion bailout of Argentina to make sure that Miley gets reelected? What happened to America first?

11:01Michael Popok:Where is America first as we spend trillions of dollars to destabilize Venezuela that we're apparently now at war with? So all of this is what the Wall Street Journal is telling at a very critical moment here as we approach the November 5 oral argument at the United States Supreme Court, take away a power that he never should have been given, that he took for himself, a power to tariff, which is reserved in Congress under the Constitution. That's not an executive power. Look, the Supreme Court has given the president enough executive power, far beyond what any Supreme Court has ever given the Article II powers of a president.

11:43Michael Popok:But you can't even, I mean, I know he's a cannibal, but you can't have him keep eating the Constitution. Oh, let me go over to Article I, the power of Congress. I like that too. Let me take that for me. Let me take Article III, the power of the judiciary. He's already undermining the rule of law in Article III by the way he attacks judges, by the way he's captured the Department of Justice. And he's destabilized Congress. Has anybody noticed Congress is not even open for business right now? They've gone from doormat to gone fishing. Any wonder why the American people believe that Congress' favorability rating is 15 percent?

12:23Michael Popok:MAGA Congress's rating right now is 15 percent. Supreme Court is right behind him. So we'll continue to follow how huge segments of the financial community, the Wall Street community, are attacking Donald Trump and begging the Supreme Court to take away his power and the trillion dollars. He'll have to return the trillions of dollars of tariffs that have been paid by American importers. We'll have to all be returned. That's the way it's going to go. I'm glad you're here on the Midas Dutch Network. Hit the free subscribe button. Come over to Legal AF YouTube. Do the exact same thing. Now is the time to defend your First Amendment right, our First Amendment right together.

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