Has there ever been a simpler demonstration of reverse psychology? Can you imagine Cryin’ Chuck Schumer saying out loud, for all to hear, that I…
Has there ever been a simpler demonstration of reverse psychology?
Can you imagine Cryin’ Chuck Schumer saying out loud, for all to hear, that I am bluffing with respect to putting Tariffs on Mexico. What a Creep. He would rather have our Country fail with drugs & Immigration than give Republicans a win. But he gave Mexico bad advice, no bluff!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5,2019
Schumer taunted him in a Senate floor speech yesterday, noting that “President Trump has a habit of talking tough and then retreating, because his policies often can’t be implemented or don’t make sense,” no doubt hoping to provoke exactly this reaction. Dems would love to see Trump do something economically self-destructive like starting a trade war with Mexico while taking full ownership of it politically. The roaring economy is almost the entirety of the case to swing voters for reelecting him next year. Republicans know it too, which is why there’s a rebellion against the new tariffs brewing in the Senate. Schumer’s afraid that McConnell will talk Trump out of the tariffs before they take effect, averting economic self-sabotage and a GOP civil war over tariffs and immigration.
So he decided to bruise Trump’s ego by calling him a cuck and a blowhard, expecting POTUS would conclude that “strength” required proving Schumer wrong by implementing the tariffs over Republican objections. Mission accomplished, it seems.
McConnell’s best hope now of dodging an ugly fight between Trump and his caucus over the tariffs: The judiciary.
“[The International Emergency Economic Powers Act] was not designed for the imposition of tariffs,” said Jennifer Hillman, a Georgetown University law professor. “It was intended to give the President the power to impose economic sanctions when the President finds an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to the national security, foreign policy or economy of the U.
