Trumpy Bear is desperate to keep his tariffs, despite the shaky legal foundation, so he's making increasingly histrionic public claims about what will happen if the Supreme Court does not cave and save Trump. Via Politico:

Call it The Chicken Little Defense: If the courts do not sign off on the administration’s tariffs, it “would be a total disaster for the Country” and “would literally destroy the United States of America,” Trump said on Friday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the bulk of the president’s tariffs are illegal. He doubled down on those claims on Tuesday while tacking on the transparently ridiculous assertion that the U.S. is “taking in $17 trillion … because of tariffs.”

In the petition to the Supreme Court filed on Wednesday night, the a

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