Gremlins! President Trump chickens out, the courts block Trump's tariffs, and we have a special guest on the show to talk about it all. Plus, Feminist Cops is back with a brand new season, and a whole lot more.
00:02:13.000They think that's a funny little colloquialism that the left is trying to make a thing, but I'm willing to bet it's going to end up like fake news.
00:02:19.000Do you remember that fake news was a thing the left tried to use and then it got jujitsu'd and now they're just beside themselves and they can never live it down?
00:02:26.000We're going to go through that, what it means, and if there's any...
00:02:32.000The court or courts blocking Trump's tariffs.
00:02:37.000My half-Asian lawyer is here so that we can give you a rundown of this.
00:02:39.000I think a lot of people are getting it wrong, and I'm not a lawyer, so I have one here to discuss it.
00:02:45.000And, you know, not everything is an intellectual exercise, to be clear.
00:02:48.000When people talk about constitutional authority, constitutional parameters, what falls under the executive branch, you do remember that the Constitution was drafted really in a...
00:03:10.000Not everything is some libertarian think tank, and we're going to get into that, and I think it's time to wield the power of that executive branch in a way that is not violating anyone's personal civil rights.
00:03:22.000But yeah, to stick it to the left a little bit.
00:03:24.000I know I've heard this argument all the time.
00:03:25.000Well, you know, if you do this, well, shoes on the other foot.
00:03:28.000As though the left is not going to do that.
00:03:45.000Vince comes from Vincente in Latin, which, by the way, all the romance languages are based in Latin, and it translates roughly to, Dad, you gotta stop treating me like I'm a little kid!
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00:07:12.000If I'm going to go out in a blaze of glory, at some point in time, I'm taking all of you with me, but it will include copious amounts of fentanyl.
00:07:35.000It's a live show weekdays, 11 a.m., and of course, if you are a member of Rumble Premium, tomorrow we have an apologetics episode with one Gerald Morgan and Andrew Wilson discussing the differences between Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity, and I'm willing to bet it gets a little heated, although you're quite a congenial man.
00:12:40.000And women in the army are 67% more likely to receive some kind of physical disability discharge or some kind of musculoskeletal injury disorder.
00:13:16.000If I am, not fentanyl, but if we're going now to PCP land, if I am a known felon with a rap sheet, out of my mind blitzed on PCP, and I know that I'm going to be going to the slammer for a long time, It is an answered prayer to see a lady cop show up.
00:15:14.000And Donald Trump's predictable reversing of himself has now created a new phrase with the acronym What do you think, retired mid-level surfer?
00:15:35.000I don't know if you could more effectively put together a montage of people I hate.
00:15:44.000Like, you could have a montage of the key members of the Taliban, and I'd prefer it to those folks.
00:17:40.000There's an entire book, actually, written called Art of the Deal, where he specifically lays out the strategy that you're seeing in real time.
00:17:54.000So, you know, at this point, either you're lying or you're just very lazy, in which case, no matter what the answer is, there's no use for journalists.
00:18:03.000And of course, President Trump is visibly annoyed, almost as annoyed.
00:18:06.000We all have our days as a tool man was the other day here in the office.
00:21:37.000Here's the next claim that they're making for.
00:21:40.000They claim that President Trump chickened out, not China, but also on the EU.
00:21:45.000Donald Trump blinked once again, backing off the threat he made days ago, delaying the implementation of a 50% tariff on the European Union.
00:21:55.000The European Union is America's second largest trading partner behind China.
00:23:45.000I'll give this administration a little bit of grace and hope that these negotiations keep going on because any type of retaliatory tariffs...
00:23:57.000Yeah, and they're doing it right in the middle of the negotiations, too.
00:23:59.000Just let this process play out a little bit.
00:24:01.000I understand that we're going to comment on how it goes throughout the process and what you think the wins and losses are, but right now they're saying, ah, you're a chicken, you let these guys win, and it's like, you have no idea what's going on behind the scenes.
00:25:18.000We're also on Rumble, so definitely check us out on there.
00:25:20.000We're going to be uploading more episodes.
00:25:21.000But real people who are calling in, they're anonymous, real legal issues, the craziest stuff.
00:25:27.000Nurse in Long Island who issued thousands of fake vaccine cards to first responders and then got thrown into solitary while she was in jail.
00:26:10.000I think I saw a chyron from CNN that said that they were trying to block or that a judge just issued a temporary block on Harvard students' visas not being allowed for foreign students.
00:26:21.000I don't think we had that planned on our list today to talk about.
00:26:24.000But if that's true, guys, let me know in research.
00:26:26.000If that's really what actually happened.
00:26:28.000this brings us to this conversation here.
00:26:30.000We are all references available, and we wanted to make sure that we have lawyers who work here, not only have Haitian Bill Richmond, but George the Greek, who said, you know, we think we can really help serve you guys and give you some insight here, because the media is not going to...
00:26:50.000But let me sort of set the table here.
00:26:55.000And by the way, I was at fault on this front, too, hanging around a lot of libertarians, and when I was at Fox News, and it's always, you know, Brookings Institute and Reason Magazine and all, Manhattan Institute, they all kind of bleed together at a certain point.
00:27:11.000Not everything is just something that we discuss in the theoretical.
00:27:15.000When we talk about the Constitution, the context does matter that this was a people who had warred.
00:27:23.000With the greatest superpower, arguably, the world had seen, certainly in recent centuries, to become the only superpower the next century.
00:27:32.000And the Constitution was meant to preserve that.
00:27:35.000So if you think for a second that these founding fathers would have thought or supported the idea of local judges, of district judges, who were not elected by the people of this country, determining national policy on everything from Immigration.
00:27:58.000Dealing with the drug crisis, the fentanyl crisis at the border.
00:28:02.000You think that Thomas Jefferson would have said, oh sure, some judge in Connecticut should determine what happens at our borders in a time of crisis.
00:28:16.000If we find ourselves in an actual war where it comes to your home front, God forbid that ever happens, if we find ourselves there, none of these kinds of games that we're playing now will enter into the equation.
00:28:28.000You've been separated from the necessity of our founding and constitution by comfort for far too long.
00:28:36.000So I want to put that in context before we get into the ins and outs.
00:28:39.000We're at a point here where this country, it may be, Do you understand that?
00:28:48.000And in this case with judges, willful destruction.
00:28:51.000In other words, this did not happen overnight.
00:28:53.000The fentanyl crisis, the open borders.
00:28:56.000You don't get 20 million people in four years here illegally overnight.
00:29:01.000You don't get, we don't know the number, which also doesn't happen overnight, hundreds of thousands, millions of illegal aliens benefiting.
00:29:08.000From social services here, from social safety nets, whether it's Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, that doesn't happen overnight.
00:29:17.000And we can't continue down the path of an action.
00:29:20.000And part of the reason for the executive branch is to be able to deal with these problems and break through it, especially in times of emergency.
00:29:30.000So do we want to wait for it to be an emergency where it can no longer be fixed?
00:29:37.000Or, and comment below, do you think that we are at a point in this country where the emergency is now, as far as immigration, as far as the subversion of Western civilization, as far as deals being made not in the interests of the American people, even though our representatives have made them, but in the interests not of just foreign nations, but foreign adversaries who want to do you harm?
00:30:01.000Is the emergency now, or do we need to wait?
00:30:07.000In which case, I guess you have to call Code Pink.
00:30:11.000So Wednesday, three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade, for those of you who haven't seen this yet today, they blocked President Trump's tariffs again.
00:30:23.000The president, the will of the people.
00:30:27.000We're following some very big breaking news tonight, news that will come as a big blow to Donald Trump and his agenda.
00:30:33.000Tonight, a three-judge panel in New York has effectively balked almost all of Trump's disastrous tariffs.
00:30:39.000Trump's tariffs against Mexico and Canada, his tariffs against the EU, against China, his tariffs against uninhabited islands with nothing but penguins and snow.
00:30:48.000They are all blocked by this federal court decision.
00:30:51.000The court said his effort to justify them with broad claims of national emergencies exceeded his legal authority.
00:31:11.000The world will reset itself around the restoration of law and order in international trade and the crushing of the Trump tariffs and resultant personal worldwide humiliation of Donald Trump.
00:31:29.000So let me be really clear before we get some key facts.
00:31:37.000Occupy Wall Street was a load of crap then, and it is now.
00:31:41.000They're happy that Wall Street will willingly and gleefully put the needs of the American people and our manufacturing base and our employment base on the back burner in favor of short-term profits.
00:32:02.000That working class Americans saw in their salary, in modern American history, they would rather see Wall Street do a little bit better, and by the way, was already on the way up.
00:32:11.000And then you just heard O'Donnell, who wants you to stop the hammering, you heard him say, isn't this great, gleefully, that the rest of the world is mocking your elected leader, your president?
00:33:07.000So let's go to the first key fact here.
00:33:09.000All references available in the description.
00:33:10.000Number one, the ruling, what their argument is.
00:33:14.000And Half Asian Bill, you can probably clarify this with people.
00:33:17.000It's that President Trump can't invoke emergency powers under the Emergency Powers Act to deal with things they claim like trade deficits or China's fentanyl.
00:33:28.000Yeah, essentially what they're saying is that it's, even though it's specifically tailored to a particular concern that is backed by a lot, a lot, a lot of evidence.
00:33:35.000This isn't just anecdotes or talking about, you know, hey, look, a few folks overdosed.
00:33:41.000The millions of issues that are coming out of this people with overdose, the drugs, the border issues, they're saying those are not specific enough to be able to invoke the National Emergency Act and then use that as a basis under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to do these tariffs.
00:33:59.000I mean, it's one of the most ridiculous analyses, keeping in mind that the last time that the Court of International Trade even spoke on tariffs, So this isn't just, oh, Trump is doing something that's a little bit unusual.
00:34:20.000Well, unusual circumstances require unusual solutions, but the courts even taking up of this issue is extremely unusual.
00:34:29.000Yeah, and that would, again, seem like the weaponizing in many ways of the justice system.
00:34:33.000This affects the Liberation Day tariffs, right?
00:34:36.000There were like 10 to 50 percent, depends on the country.
00:34:39.000Apparently, they may be, I don't fully know this, the government may have to refund businesses that have already had to pay tariffs that have been collected.
00:34:47.000Now, there are some that are not affected.
00:34:49.000For example, the tariffs on cars, on steel, on aluminum, because that was imposed under a different law, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
00:34:57.000So some people are a little confused about that.
00:36:01.000Number four, Ninth Circuit judge who requests that both councils approach the bench so she can inform them that she is in fact the one who farted.
00:36:55.000And number one weirdest-looking district judge, Court of Appeals judge, who reads every case up, down, left, and right, all at the same time, and is also part-time sloth, Eunice Lee.
00:37:45.000Alright, key fact number three, and this is really important, you know, half-Asian Bill Richmond will know this probably better than anyone here.
00:37:56.000So the very first thing is, the ruling from the Court of International Trade will take effect in 10 days, is when the officials have to go and walk back everything that they need to do under that particular order.
00:38:07.000And so the appeal to the Federal Circuit Court, so that's the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has already been filed, and the Federal Circuit can issue a stay.
00:38:17.000They can say, nope, Court of International Trade, your ruling, incorrect, do not have to move forward with it.
00:38:25.000It decides to say, hey, the Court of International Trade was correct.
00:38:29.000Then there can be an appeal up to the United States Supreme Court.
00:38:32.000So I would say we're going to see a busy, busy, busy next 14 days on this front.
00:38:37.000And here, just so you know, there are other options, by the way, other tariff options that can be basically implemented via executive order under section I have this here, 232.
00:38:46.000And as I understand it, this allows the president to levy tariffs on products that threaten national security.
00:38:50.000So, for example, that would be like the current steel and aluminum tariffs.
00:38:59.000This isn't an argument to say that the president can't give tariffs or initiate tariffs on specific products or specific industries.
00:39:06.000But what they're saying is you can't just do it broadly because they're saying that fentanyl is not a broad enough problem, that illegal border crossings by our foreign enemies is not a big enough problem, which really just comes down to.
00:39:37.000Actually, they do kind of say, well, it is an emergency, but we're still not really going to let you do it because, and I don't understand the rest, and I have a quote later on.
00:39:45.000But I also know that some can be implemented through Section 301.
00:39:50.000As I understand it, the president to levy tariffs on specific countries that impose unfair trade barriers, which sounds exactly like what he did.
00:40:13.000So, I'm going to make sure I understand.
00:40:14.000Section 301, it allows the president to levy tariffs on specific countries that impose unfair trade barriers, but reciprocal tariffs, according to this court, don't apply?
00:40:23.000So what they're saying is, is like, okay, so you remember the quote earlier, she was like, the lady on the news clip was like, oh, this snowy island that all they do is export like sea salt or something, right?
00:40:33.000So there is a point to be made that some of these countries may have tariffs that are not actually impacting us in some kind of serious way because they're such small players.
00:40:42.000But the reality is the vast majority of these, the reciprocal tariffs, are designed to say, you've got some issue with us.
00:40:48.000We're going to go ahead and step up and start dealing with it across the board.
00:40:52.000But they're saying, no, you can't just decide to do it across the board.
00:43:04.000Yeah, there's a lot of them that are brought in because they haven't actually been used.
00:43:08.000We're just going to have more and more challenges that go, well, this has never been limited before, so let's just go ahead and try to limit it.
00:43:15.000And then when you have activist judges who say, well, we're going to err on the side of doing anything that will limit Trump's agenda because we don't like Trump, then it becomes a problem, right?
00:43:25.000The pressure there on these judges and them succumbing to it is a big problem.
00:44:00.000You're basically saying there is no power.
00:44:01.000Didn't we have some of the biggest spending ever take place under Barack Obama?
00:44:05.000Didn't you have George W. Bush effectively declare war without Congress at one point in time?
00:44:11.000Remember, that was kind of a big deal?
00:44:12.000And now you can't say, hey, a reciprocal tariff until you fix the fentanyl epidemic?
00:44:20.000Tell me the courts have been politicized without telling me the courts have been politicized.
00:44:22.000One of my problems, too, and Bill, you and I were talking about this earlier, is that the people that brought these cases...
00:44:31.000Goldman issued a statement after this ruling and said basically this is a nothing burger in that the tariffs can be put on in other ways and the administration will move to do that.
00:44:39.000So the tariffs won't really go anywhere.
00:44:41.000It's not a nothing burger in that the courts are now overstepping their bounds yet again and that's what we're really talking about.
00:44:46.000But that just goes to show you the people that are bringing these suits, they know.
00:44:49.000That that is likely what's going to happen.
00:44:51.000And so it's not really even about affecting the tariff policy of this administration.
00:44:55.000It's about making Donald Trump look bad and weak.
00:45:54.000You've been kind of like Joe Biden did with red forgiveness and student loan forgiveness.
00:45:59.000What are the consequences if he does that?
00:46:01.000I mean, I know it's different for Trump than Biden.
00:46:02.000Yeah, so this is always the issue when you look at the judicial system and you say, okay, what will these courts do?
00:46:07.000They don't really have their own police force.
00:46:10.000So at that point, you start getting into this fraying of the entire system, right?
00:46:14.000So a question of like, okay, if the branches no longer listen to the other branches in areas where they're making rulings, who's going to step in and do something about it?
00:46:23.000It could be something like declaring that these officials who are not complying are no longer in power.
00:46:29.000They no longer have the authority, but again, it requires Or you start moving over into the judicial side of enforcement where the Justice Department starts arresting officials for failing to comply with court orders.
00:46:47.000You start throwing them in jail, things like that.
00:46:49.000So, I mean, this could escalate pretty crazy.
00:46:54.000They're not going to do that because this is the only president who they have tried to jail and someone attempted to assassinate and that backfired on.
00:47:16.000So we'll get to some of the solutions down here, but because there are obvious solutions, because this administration can go different ways with tariffs, the game is basically, let's just slow him down long enough to where he's ineffective as President of the United States.
00:47:28.000And so he looks weak, and it helps our enemies and people around the world that are competing with us, that maybe aren't our enemies, but want to compete with us economically.
00:47:35.000I just think he says, fine, yeah, I'm just going to ignore all this until it gets to the Supreme Court.
00:47:58.000He's going to understand the details, the granularity on this far better.
00:48:02.000But I think you all know enough to see that they are cheerleading.
00:48:07.000For people who want to take what you've built, and I don't just mean you, the American people as a country, what you have built personally.
00:48:14.000If it's a business, if it's some sense of community, if, hey, maybe it's a rehab center, by the way, to deal with people who have been struggling with this drug crisis.
00:48:23.000Everything that they are advocating for and they are cheering is adversarial.
00:49:14.000Oh, advocating on behalf of a nation who has, by their own admission, Been seeking the destruction of Western civilization and harming you in this country any which way they can.
00:50:10.000Well, really, this should go to Congress.
00:50:12.000And you would think, hey, Republicans have quite a bit of control at this point in time.
00:50:18.000They could retroactively ratify President Trump's tariffs or pass a tariff law.
00:50:23.000But you have some people there who may not.
00:50:26.000So this, and I have this written down here to make sure that I remember correctly, and Bill, you can clarify, they can amend the Emergency Economic Powers Act.
00:50:32.000Or expand Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act to include issues specifically like trade deficits or the Chinese fentanyl crisis.
00:50:52.000Like, yeah, but that kind of seems there, though.
00:50:54.000That's the biggest rebuttal to this entire thing is that Congress has already taken the actions to delegate the authority of tariffs in large, large, large areas to the executive branch and specifically to the president.
00:51:07.000So really, again, we're not arguing about can the president impose tariffs or not.
00:51:12.000It's how many tariffs and how far can those go, which makes the complete striking down of the specific tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs, the ones related to fentanyl on the border, a huge problem.
00:51:23.000Because it's essentially saying, we know you're allowed to do some stuff, but we're just going to throw it all out right now and then let you figure it out, right?
00:51:31.000So that political motivation to say, we're just going to hamper you across the board is a big problem.
00:51:36.000And to get to your point earlier, Stephen, I think it's really interesting when you think about the lack of values that are applied when attacking these policies.
00:51:45.000The side, like you said, of Occupy Wall Street is now using the evidence of the stock market going up and capitalists winning as evidence that this was a good policy or a good result.
00:51:58.000It's like, wait a minute, you're not even on your own side anymore.
00:52:04.000And that's where you can find some hypocrisy that underlies this entire attack on what it should be and is a stance to protect America.
00:52:13.000If Donald Trump existed in the 1800s and implemented these kinds of tariffs and policies to protect the American worker and our manufacturing sector, Bernie Sanders would praise him as a folk hero.
00:53:00.000Is that the trade deficit doesn't actually constitute unusual or any kind of extraordinary threat.
00:53:07.000The law does not grant tariff authority to the president simply when he finds or determines that an unusual and extraordinary threat exists.
00:53:37.000It's not an emergency for people like Jen Psaki.
00:53:39.000It is for a lot of people in this country where you had judges sit by while this country just got caved in in many ways, particularly our industries.
00:53:49.000This nation right now, you don't think this is an emergency?
00:54:22.000If you had an asteroid hit the United States' ability to extract, to use, to refine, process, to basically Create what we need as far as rare earth minerals, as far as chipsets, as far as our ability to build ships, as far as our ability to build and assemble a lot of military goods.
00:54:43.000So in a world where an asteroid just hits those targets, where we can't do it anymore, do you realize it would have no discernible difference because we can't do it now?
00:56:16.000They have been sounding the alarm for decades, saying that if you don't recognize that China wants to dominate and control the planet, then you are not listening.
00:56:29.000And I think that's the fundamental disagreement here, is they're going, oh, you're just being racist by targeting these other countries of people that look different.
00:56:37.000No, we're not doing it based on the way they look.
00:56:39.000We're doing it based on what they see.
00:56:42.000The lack of intellectual property protections, the ability to send shitty goods, if not actual bad drugs, over into this country.
00:56:51.000The precursors for fentanyl being able to flow not only directly into the United States, but onto the North American continent that makes its way into the United States.
00:58:15.000They say, the state plaintiffs do not argue that the fentanyl trafficking orders fail to invoke unusual and extraordinary threats.
00:58:22.000That's them saying, like, we're not arguing that it's not an emergency.
00:58:24.000But then they go on to say, a dam deals with flooding by holding back a river, but there is no such association between the act of imposing a tariff and the, quote, unusual and extraordinary threats, for example, that of the fentanyl trafficking orders purport to combat.
00:58:39.000What they're basically saying is, yeah, we get that the tariffs are leveraged, and we get that fentanyl is actually, we acknowledge, kind of an emergency, but we're going to act like we don't understand the connection.
00:58:54.000I think that what the court is saying here is we need to build 100,000 A-10 warthogs and have them patrol the borders and just shoot every fentanyl-carrying boat that comes near the border.
00:59:15.000It's saying, well, we have this one really important lever that China would not like if we used, so we push the button, and now we're like, no, it's not directly connected.
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