As if Trump’s actions couldn’t get any more embarrassing

It is a characteristic of the presidency of Donald Trump: everyone around him has to kiss his ass – go through it, sumptuously and without the slightest suspicion of embarrassment. The more obsequious the praise, the more happy it is.

Foreign leaders have learned thisBut no one corresponds to the devotion of Trump’s inner circle. Example: General lawyer John Sauer, the man pleading Trump’s affairs before the Supreme Court.

In a letter Undering the Supreme Court to maintain Trump’s supposed right to impose prices – even if the Constitution gives this power to the Congress – is exceeded in presidential flattery.

On July 27, after having declared his intention to impose the prices of the IEEPA, President Trump announced the largest trade agreement in history with the European Union of 27 countries, the most important trading partner in America.

It is bad on several charges. EU is the United States second-The biggest trading partner, Behind Canada. And there is no “greater trade agreement in history”. What Trump announced was a framework, not a binding treaty. These agreements take years to finalize, often require Congress approvaland must be Ratified by EU members. None of this has happened.

And the biggest trade agreement is the Regional full economic economic partnershipA free trade pact among 15 countries in Asia-Pacific representing 30% of the world’s population and GDP. But the facts have never submitted to Trump.

Sauer’s letter continues:

Suddenly, revoking the president’s tariff authority under the IEEPA would have catastrophic consequences for our national security, our foreign policy and our economy. The president considers that our country would not be able to reimburse the thousands of dollars that other countries have already committed to pay, which could lead to a financial ruin.

If Trump’s actions are illegal, the downstream consequences are not relevant. If he thinks that having this power is vital, the congress can give it to him. What “the president believes” is not a legal authority, a precedent or a status. Trump believes a lot of things that are simply false. And, no, other countries have not “committed to paying billions of billions” in the United States. At best, they did Investment vagus which rarely materialize.

Sauer knows, but precision is not the point. Doing good to Trump is.

The other tariff authorities that the president could potentially use are in the short term, not as powerful and would make America captive to the abuse it has endured in much more aggressive countries.

These other tariff authorities are probably legal, which is why Trump does not want to use them. If he needs enlarged powers, the congress can grant them – or this can directly impose prices, as the Constitution wanted.

Then comes the development.

There is no substitute for the prices and agreements that President Trump has concluded. A year ago, the United States was a dead country, and now, due to the thousands of dollars paid by countries that have abused us so badly, America is again a solid, financially viable and respected country.

A year ago, the United States was “dead”. Now, thanks to offers that do not exist, the nation is supposed to result from ashes like a phoenix. Meanwhile, prices and inflation are increasing, employment growth is decreasing, manufacturing is lagging behind and Trump has fired the official responsible for publishing government economic data rather than face the disastrous numbers.

These agreements for billions of dollars have been concluded and other countries have committed to paying massive money.

They did not do it. Even the first Trump term from China promises to buy $ 200 billion in American energy products by 2021 Never approached to reality. And the entire American import market is around 4 dollars of dollars, making the idea that the “billions of billions” depend on the absurd Trump tariff authority.

Finally, Sauer warns:

If the United States was forced to relax these historic agreements, the president considers that a forced dissolution of agreements could lead to a 1929 style result. In such a scenario, people would be forced from their home, millions of jobs would be eliminated, the Americans who work would hard lose their savings, and even social security and health insurance could be threatened. In short, the economic consequences would be ruinous, instead of an unprecedented success.

Social security and health insurance are more threatened by GOP hostility than losing Trump’s prices. They went well before his trade war, and he never said that the prices were essential to their survival. If the progress of these agreements occurs, it will be because Trump has broken the law.

The economic consequences are already there, and they are worse than before. Trump approval numbers are in chat. A Morning consultation survey For the Century Foundation, revealed that 63% of Americans say that Trump aggravates the prices of the grocery store, 61% say that it aggravates the cost of living and that almost 80% – including 70% of Republicans – fear that the prices will hurt them.

It turns out that no matter what “the president believes” when everyone can clearly see that he is full.

And Sauer knows it too. Which makes it all the more pathetic since he chose to sign his name on a legal file so detached from the law, because and of reality just to keep his boss happy.

History will not remember the legal arguments of this letter, but it will remember the lawyer who humiliated to write them.