White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went ballistic over a ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade that struck down President Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to place tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and other countries.
Leavitt, addressing reporters from the White House briefing room on Thursday, opened the briefing by saying, “Last night, the Trump administration faced another example of judicial overreach. Using his full and proper legal authority, President Trump imposed universal tariffs and reciprocal tariffs on Liberation Day to address the extraordinary threat to our national security and economy posed by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits.”
“The president’s rationale for imposing these powerful tariffs was legally sound and grounded in common sense,” Leavitt…
