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Elizabeth Warren

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Sure.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

And that is the Supreme Court stepped up and actually applied the law.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

They said it's clear, both under the Constitution and then under the statutes, that Donald Trump did not have the authority to engage in all of these random tariffs that he put in place.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

they were illegal.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

I mean, it was just, there wasn't any room for doubt in that.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

And that was a 6-3 opinion.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

So, yes, the Supreme Court got it right.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

And then, Donald Trump, President of the United States, instead of saying, okay, I'm not supposed to take money from the American people that way, turned around and said, he's just going to find another way to steal the same kind of money from the American people going forward.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

You know, it's

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

One more day in the Donald Trump presidency of chaos and of putting Donald Trump first instead of the American people.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

All right.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

So he's going to try to put a tariff in place under a different statutory authority.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

Only there's a reason he didn't start out with these other laws.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

In this particular case, it's because it's capped at 10 percent.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

And it's also because it only lasts for a limited period of time.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

It's going to have constraints on it.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

He's actually going to have to prove things before he can keep these tariffs in place.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

But what he loses is the ability to say, I don't like you, therefore the tariff is up.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

I do like you, therefore the tariff is down.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

And that's what Donald Trump has loved about this, this kind of shoot from the hip.

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