Trump’s Trade Chief Stopped ABC Cold With Five Words That Ended the Interview
ABC's Martha Raddatz thought she had him.She'd spent the entire interview trying to convince America that the Supreme Court's tariff ruling was a catastrophic defeat for Donald Trump – that the president had been humiliated, his trade agenda shattered, his economic legacy in ruins.
Then Jamieson Greer, U.S. Trade Representative, said five words that made her whole argument collapse: "more powerful than a tariff."
The media spent 72 hours celebrating the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Learning Resources v. Trump as the death blow to Trump's trade agenda. What they buried: Trump's team had a Plan B ready before the ink dried.
Within hours of the February 20 ruling, Trump signed an executive order under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 – a separate tariff authority with no successful legal challenge on record.
The 15 percent global tariff went live February 24.
By Sunday morning, Greer was on ABC explaining the legal logic that the mainstream media refused to report.
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