Chris Michael
speaker
104 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Chris Michael’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he decided, oh, you know, this is great.
I can use it on everybody all around the world, much in the same way as, you know, when he went into Venezuela and took out the leader of the country and now they sort of run Venezuela as a vassal state.
He thought, oh, I can apply that lesson elsewhere.
And he tried to do that in Iran and it didn't work.
But he has this kind of, yeah, he sort of thinks, oh, great, like, you know, this one thing works and now I can just bully the rest of the world with it.
But the Supreme Court told him he actually can't.
That's a it seems to be a sort of legal tariff.
It's under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act.
I have read it in full.
Absolutely haven't.
Trump had to fall back on that.
It does set a maximum tariff of 10 percent and it's only for six months.
OK.
So it actually expires in a week and a half.
Now, the administration say that they're going to try to extend it.
They're accusing other countries of not enforcing labor laws.
I don't want to say that's completely made up, but certainly it's a useful fiction for them potentially.
And so they will try to get it extended.
But 10% is nowhere near as damaging as you noted some 90% tariffs are.
in other places.
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