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diGenova was sued after he said publicly that a former Trump administration official who didn’t back the election lies “should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot." The official sued him and deGenova was forced to apologize. So: an über-loyalist.

The administration has decided that because of the Supreme Court decision, it will now give back more than $166 billion collected in tariffs. In the history of the worst self-inflicted policy debacles, the administration’s tariff policies should be on the short list. There is no redeeming value at all to the whole sordid affair. They were wasteful of government time and money. They harmed the economy and US companies and did nothing to restore US manufacturing. They fleeced consumers who will not get the money back that was paid in higher prices. Since the administration is now reimbursing US companies, it’s admitting by its actions (if not its words) that that the tariff critics were right all along and that Trump was obviously wrong. That is the very definition of failure. They set a terrible legal precedent that thankfully the Supreme Court corrected, but which along with other instances of bending the law, generally undermine the rule of law. Any other money collected from tariffs that still remain in the US Treasury were still taken out of the US private economy and thus is still not available for investment, hiring new employees, paying wages and other things that American companies need to do. They represented a blatant abdication of Congress’s constitutional role in our system of government. Did I leave a behind out?

Trump compares his war in Iran to World War 2 and calls Democrats traitors: "We won’t let the Weak and Pathetic Democrats, TRAITORS ALL, belittle the accomplishments of our Military and the Trump Administration."

Hassett on a bailout for the UAE: "The UAE has been an incredibly valuable ally throughout this effort, and I'm sure the Treasury Secretary will make every effort to help them out should that be necessary"