Earlier this week, President Donald Trump posted a lengthy rant on Truth Social, bashing the U.S. Supreme Court for striking down many of his tariffs last month.
In the rant, Trump made clear that he believes that the Supreme Court works for him, especially the three justices whom he appointed in his first term. He also doesn’t seem to believe that it’s possible for the law not to be on his side.
“The decision that mattered most to me was TARIFFS! The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades,” Trump writes in the Truth Social post.
“Our Supreme Court has made these Countries very happy but, as the Court pointed out, I have the absolute right to charge TARIFFS in another form, and have already started to do so.”
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Trump then complained that the court’s conservatives don’t “stick together” the way the liberals do.
“The Democrats on the Court always ‘stick together,’ no matter how strong a case is put before them — There is rarely even a minor ‘waver,'” Trump wrote. “But Republicans do not do this. They openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how ‘honest,’ ‘independent,’ and ‘legitimate” they are.”
He also ripped the court, five years ago, for refusing to hear his challenge to the 2020 election.
“The sad thing is, they will only get worse! They wouldn’t even call out The Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, because they said that I, as President of the United States, did not have ‘standing’ to challenge it, and now, with time, it has been conclusively proven to be stolen,” Trump wrote.
Conservative legal scholar Ed Whelan, writing for National Review, ripped Trump’s rant, in a post titled “Insane.”
“Whatever good and important things Trump and his Administration are doing (and I definitely believe that there are some), we should never cease to be shocked and saddened by his gross unfitness for the office of president,” Whelan wrote.
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