Speaking on MS Now’s “The Briefing” on Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said President Donald Trump used the tariffs “like a Mafia shakedown.”
Warren said, “The Supreme Court stepped in and actually applied the law. They said it was clear, both under the Constitution and then the statute, that Donald Trump did not have the authority to engage in all those random tariffs that he put in place. They were illegal. I mean, there was no room for doubt and it was a 6/3 opinion. So, yes, the Supreme Court got it right.”
He added, “Trump shows himself to be such a bigot. He doesn’t like anyone talking to him on the phone, so he raises tariffs. But the word that starts to get around Washington is to foreign countries that if you’re really worried about your tariff rate, if you’re really worried that one of your local industries is going to collapse because Donald Trump is going to put a 50% tariff on you, you have to know the right person in Washington. You have to You have to know the right person, and you have to do that.” You have to be friendly towards the right person so that the right person can get help. It’s all like the downfall of the mafia, where money is changing hands.
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