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🗓️ 29 May 2025
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0:00.0 | The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey, Lawrence. |
0:03.0 | Hey, Jen. It's, I told you so night here at the last word with the Court of International Trade completely striking down all of Donald Trump's illegal unconstitutional tariffs, which I have been calling illegal and unconstitutional from the start. In fact, whenever he talked about them, even during the campaign. |
0:24.6 | And this opinion right here from the Court of International Trade is really just a stunning |
0:31.6 | 49 pages where Donald Trump loses in every single sentence for every single Trump tariff. |
0:40.1 | This is a, Lawrence, or not, maybe there were other times, but I know on May 12th, |
0:44.1 | because we looked it up. As I texted you, you called that the courts were going to rule against |
0:49.4 | this. And it was a court of three unanimous, one of them being a Trump appointee. So you knew. |
0:54.8 | Exactly. |
0:55.5 | Yeah. |
0:55.9 | Yeah. |
0:56.3 | And I mean, all you had to do to know was to at some point in your life, maybe in high school |
1:01.1 | or at some point, read any of the United States Constitution. |
1:05.5 | If you just read anything about it, you knew that this was inevitable. |
1:10.0 | I could never see how a judge could find |
1:13.0 | any merit in anything the Trump lawyers were arguing, and they didn't. They didn't find not a |
1:18.7 | single sentence, not one point that Donald Trump has been arguing about these tariffs, did this |
1:24.0 | court validate. And, Jen, it's one of those opinions that is clearly written for the |
1:28.7 | United States Supreme Court, knowing that Donald Trump will want to take it all the way up there. |
1:34.2 | But this, tonight, this is, as far as we can tell, the end of the Trump tariffs. It is now |
1:39.8 | illegal at ports of entry in this country to try to impose those tariffs. Not only that, every |
1:46.3 | company in America that has had to pay a tariff at the ports of entry for the goods they have |
1:53.5 | been importing during the tariff period, every one of them can now obtain a refund of those tariffs from the United States Treasury. |
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