BONUS: Tariffs: Angels & Demons urging either a Massive-Free-Trade Victory or Perpetual Trade Barriers & Taxes
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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BONUS: Tariffs: Angels & Demons urging either a Massive Free -Trade Victory or Perpetual Trade Barriers & Taxes
In this episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz and co-host Ben Ferguson unpack the economic and political firestorm surrounding President Trump’s tariff announcement.
The episode also takes aim at the growing abuse of nationwide injunctions by activist left-wing judges. Sen. Cruz highlights how these legal maneuvers are being used to block conservative policies. Is impeachment of judges the answer? All that and more on the latest episode of Verdict.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Clay, if there was a summer camp for critical thinking, we'd be the chief counselors. |
| 0:04.9 | Those jellyheads in June would be intellectual warriors by August. |
| 0:09.2 | Be a lot of fun, too. |
| 0:10.5 | Some Bill and Ted's excellent adventure references thrown in. |
| 0:13.6 | This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfires, archery, and pranking the girls. |
| 0:19.1 | The bona fide boot camp for critical thinking you can get in on it for free at the |
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| 0:27.2 | Just search our names, play and balk, listen, and subscribe. |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome at his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. |
| 0:33.4 | Ben Ferguson with you as always. |
| 0:35.1 | And Senator, it's nice to be back in the studio with you. You've been |
| 0:37.9 | traveling like crazy. You guys have been really busy in Washington and adding some days on to the |
| 0:42.5 | work week as well. We're finally back here together. We've got a big show. So is something going on in |
| 0:48.1 | Washington? Right. Exactly. You know, there's an old Chinese curse. May you live in interesting times. |
| 0:53.6 | We certainly live in those. |
| 0:55.8 | Donald Trump has hit the White House with speed and fury and velocity. There's never been anything like it. |
| 1:03.6 | They've never been a president like this in the first hundred days. Last week, obviously, the president announced on April 2nd. |
| 1:12.6 | Tariffs on just about every country on earth, the highest tariff level since 1933. |
| 1:16.5 | It is a big, big deal. |
| 1:19.2 | Every nation across the globe is reeling. |
| 1:21.7 | They're all trying to figure out what do we do about it. |
| 1:24.1 | The stock market, the stock market collapsed. |
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