Rick Wilson
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All these things Trump has tariffed China on, we haven't built American...
We've been building them.
We've had to go out and buy them elsewhere in the world because building plants to do some of these things that China builds for us at low cost will take 10 or 15 or 20 years.
American consumers.
American consumers.
And look, in Kentucky, as you pointed out, you guys have a bunch of different industrial sectors and ag sectors and goods and services sectors that are being devastated.
I mean, you've got โ
Jim Beam closing up.
You've got everybody else who's making liquor, which once upon a time, Canada and Asia were two giant markets, and they're being cut off for spite.
Yeah.
For spite.
And, you know, this is another one of those things where you get back to looking at leadership, especially in the U.S.
Senate.
If the U.S.
Senate had leaders in it that would stand up and say the Constitution โ
does not allow the president to engage in these tariffs, which they don't.
This emergency principle he's using is legally flawed and actually legally fake.
And if they would stand up and say, I'm going to stand up for the people of my state, rather than letting Trump have his way with his little weird fantasy about these tariffs.
I mean, look, nobody was going to ever expect Mitch McConnell to do that.
We were all hopeful, even myself included.