President Trump reshaped the Supreme Court with three picks in his first term.
But Trump didn’t get the results he expected.
And Trump’s confession about his own Supreme Court picks will hit you like a freight train.
As American Media Watch Dog reports:
Speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner at Union Station in Washington, D.C., President Trump blasted two of his Supreme Court nominees for ruling against him in the tariffs case.
“Two of the people that voted for that, I appointed,” Trump told House Republicans who turned on him in the tariff case.
Trump was referring to Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Gorsuch for joining the court’s liberals in a 6-3 ruling to strike down his tariffs, which he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The tariffs were the centerpiece of Trump’s agenda to rebalance global trade, put America First, and lower the deficit.
Trump’s tariffs raked in over $130 billion in revenue.
And Trump fumed that the court’s ruling set up a complicated and costly process to refund the money to companies that paid the tariffs when importing goods into the United States.
Trump expressed outrage that the court didn’t take into account how successful the tariffs were when they handed down their decision.
“The Supreme Court, that’s right, of the United States cost our country — all they needed was a sentence — our country hundreds of billions of dollars, and they couldn’t care less,” Trump fumed. “They couldn’t care less.”
Trump then tore into Gorsuch and Barrett for their betrayal.
“And they sicken me,” Trump said of the two justices.
“They sicken me because they’re bad for our country,” Trump added.
Trump rips Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett: "The Supreme Court cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. And they couldn't care less. I appointed two of the people that voted for that. And they SICKEN me. Because they are bad for our country." pic.twitter.com/tVftLK4TH3
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But it looks like Trump may have the last laugh.
The court only ruled that Trump couldn’t declare a national emergency and impose the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed out that Trump had other avenues available for him to set tariffs.
And that’s exactly the course of action that Trump chose.
“Trump, on Feb. 20, invoked Section 122 of the Trade Act to impose global tariffs of 10% on imports, but those duties last for just 150 days unless Congress approves an extension.
Earlier this month, the office of U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer opened trade investigations into nearly 80 countries and economies under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, including China, Japan, India, Mexico, and the European Union,” CNBC reported.
