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Transcript:
A federal court dealt a crushing blow to the latest tariff scheme of the Trump administration. Now, you might say, wait, I thought that they already had the tariffs struck down. The Trump administration went back and tried a different justification from the ‘70s for the tariffs, and that one is also against the law. Trump says they will try again.
Full propaganda mode launches as gas prices surpass $4.50 a gallon. And Trump administration officials have turned to just saying everything’s great. Gas prices are fine. $3.50 was way too high when Biden was president, but $4.50 is great when it’s Donald Trump.
Also, the president disappearing from a scheduled live press event with the Brazilian president. Instead, they made it close to the press, and even Fox News was left to wonder what’s going on here? This is really weird.
We will also talk about whether winning by cheating is really winning. I would argue the answer is no. But Republicans seem to have no problem forgoing convincing people that their policies are good and instead trying to secure the midterm elections of 2026 by manipulating voting systems. I don’t think that that’s really winning, but I’ll make my case, and then you can decide.
All of that and much more today.
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