Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Blasted as He Destroys His Own Lawyers at Supreme Court

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

Trump being triggered by Ontario’s running a Ronald Reagan speech against him in US prime time and hitting Canada with a 10% tariff to punish them for it, has been used by The Wall Street Journal to send a “DM” of the Supreme Court to take away Trump’s power to tariff and declare the tariffs void!  Michael Popok takes a look at how Trump’s pique of anger over an ad, and how’s he’s treated Brazil, India and Argentina, only bolsters the argument that there is no “economic emergency” that gives him the power to tariff, just before the Supreme Court’s oral argument on the issue. Harry's Razors: Use our exclusive link, https://harrys.com/LEGALAF, for a $6 Trial Set. Subscribe to  @LegalAFMTN  today! Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You shouldn't use tariffs. Reagan was a free trader. And you're using the tariff power that you don't have to punish your perceived political enemies. We've seen that already. Donald Trump has used it to punish Brazil, to punish Canada, to reward Argentina. And that's the reason the power of the tariff has to remain with Congress. and under the Constitution and not with the President. But I love the fact that Rupert Murdoch is trolling Donald Trump

over being trolled by Ronald Reagan by Canada. Let's cover it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and Unlegal A.F. You may have heard that Doug Ford over in Ontario decided to run an ad, spend $75 million or so with an ad by, to run Ronald Reagan's famous speech from 1987, in which he, a classic free trader against tariffs, was telling the American people why tariffs are generally bad,

but in the case of Japan at the time in the semiconductor chip market, he was proposing a tariff, explaining why in those unique circumstances he had abandoned his free trade ideals, but it was only for a limited purpose and limited time. And otherwise, he was a free trader. Well, Doug Ford, wanted the American people, especially over the World Series weekend, to hear from Ronald Reagan and when we have a November 5 oral argument for the United States Supreme Court. Now, Donald Trump has told the American people, but let me show you a clip of that, of that ad and Doug Ford talking about it.

Let's play the clip. When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. and sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time. But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industry shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the weight of prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition.

America's jobs and growth are at stake. I heard that the president heard our ad. I'm sure he wasn't too happy, but it's real because it was coming from the best president the country's ever seen Ronald Reagan. So it is. It's very effective. It's probably one of the best ads I've ever seen, and it's coming from Ronald Reagan's voice. And it's going to be focused right across the country, but also in Republican-held areas. Because what I feel, the Reagan Republicans are going to be fighting with a MAGA group. And let's hope Reagan Republicans win. Okay.

Down below, I'll give you the Reagan Foundation full speech. If you think it was taken out of context, I don't see what context it was taken out of. But in any event, Donald Trump comes back and says, I have a power, 10% penalty on Canada for running that ad. Here's what the Wall Street Journal had to say about all of that in their new editorial board posting against Donald Trump. And particularly a message to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court isn't likely to be influenced by anything other than the law, says the Wall Street Journal. But Mr. Trump's Canada eruption is a good argument for the justices to raise. in his tariff power, which he doesn't have.

The president gets angry at a TV ad and imposes on a whim a 10% tax on Americans on Americans who buy goods from their northern neighbor. Like when we say it's a tax on Canada, it's not a tax on Canada, it's a tax on Americans. It'll end up in their grocery list, their grocery bill and the rest. Mr. Trump claims he's not a king,

but on tariffs, he's acting like one. The Wall Street Journal continues, and without a proper delegation from Congress, as the Constitution requires. It's striking that Mr. Trump is so worried about a TV spot featuring a president who left the White House nearly 37 years ago. Don't you know what time it is,

as your apologists like to say, Mr. President? There's the trolling. Trump is wrong when he said on social media, the Wall Street Journal continues, that Ronald Reagan loved tariffs for purposes of national security and the economy. The Gipper, the nickname for Ronald Reagan was a free trader. In the 1987 speech, Reagan was trying to explain why he was making

an exception to his free trade policies on semiconductor imports from Japan. We remember the speech well, and its purpose was to head off a protectionist surge in Congress. The Gipper delivered it as a fear of Japanese economic dominance was reaching its political peak. That could not, as the Wall Street Journal said, couldn't be more different than Mr. Trump. who wants tariffs as a policy rule, not the exemption. Reagan knew that tariffs are taxes while Mr. Trump pretends they are paid by foreigners. Reagan knew protectionist barriers over time breed complacency and lack of innovation. You know what they say, first impressions matter.

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Economic Emergencies Power Act, IEPA, a delegation from Congress to the president under economic emergencies to take certain actions. Nowhere in the body of that statute is the T word, tariffs. Never. It's been used like for Reagan to do an emergency tariff against a semiconductor chip war being led by Japan. But that was for a very short time. It was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court

because it was seen as an appropriate, it was called a tariff, but it was seen as a fine or a punishment in that circumstance, not a 130 country tariff list. And Donald Trump says it's an emergency. What was the emergency in order to trigger Aipa? In Japan, the emergency was they were swapping the chip market with cheap chips and putting our national security and computers at the time. Back in 1987, national security is being undermined.

We didn't have the chip companies we have now. Intel was present, was having problems battling it out with the Japanese. So Ronald Reagan stepped in. That's a real emergency. What's Donald Trump's emergency? To impose a wholesale tariffs on every country in the world? We have a trade imbalance. A trade imbalance, first of all, he doesn't understand the word of balance.

When you add in goods and services, many of these countries, there was no trade in balance. He meant to goods trade of balance. And that's not an emergency. That's been a creeping problem for the last three administrations. No emergency, no emergency powers. Get it? And then he just, and then undermining his argument, look what he's doing in places like Brazil. The 50% tariff on Brazilians or on Americans and Brazilians by extension because they are, they have prosecuted and are sentencing their Trump, Bolsonaro, for trying to overcome or overturn the will of the people and stop the peaceful transfer in Brazil.

What does it have to do with an emergency? He likes Bolsonaro. Okay. What is any of what Donald Trump is doing? Where's the $40 billion bail out of Argentina to make sure that Miley gets reelected? What happened to America first? Where is America first? As we spend trillions of dollars to destabilize Venezuela that we're apparently now at war with.

So all of this is what the Wall Street Journal is telling at a very critical moment here as we approach the November 5 oral argument at the United States Supreme Court take away a power that he never should have been given, that he took for himself, a power to tariff, which is reserved in Congress under the Constitution. That's not an executive power. Look, the Supreme Court has given the president enough executive power, far beyond what any Supreme Court has ever given the article to powers of a president. But you can't even, you know, I mean, I know he's a cannibal, but you can't have him keep eating the Constitution. Oh, let me go over to Article 1, the power of Congress.

I like that, too. Let me take that for me. Let me take Article 3, the power of the judiciary. He's already undermining the rule of law in Article 3. By the way, he attacks judges. By the way, he's captured the Department of Justice. And he's destabilized Congress. Has anybody noticed Congress is not even open for business right now?

They've gone from doormat to gone fission. And he wonder why the American people believe that Congress's favorability rating is 15%. Maga Congress's rating right now is 15%. Supreme Court is right behind him. So we'll continue to follow how huge segments of the financial community, the Wall Street community, are attacking Donald Trump and begging the Supreme Court to take away his power and the trillion dollars. They'll have to return the trillions of dollars of tariffs

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