'The administration dared China, Harvard and the supreme court to blink. They haven’t'
'...Encouraged by the ease with which many big US institutions caved in to their demands, the Trump regime...the small cadre of bottom-feeding fanatics around Donald Trump (JD Vance, Elon Musk, Russell Vought, Stephen Miller and RFK Jr)...have overreached. They’ve dared China, Harvard and the supreme court to blink. But guess what? They’ve met their matches. None of them has blinked – and they won’t.
China not only refused to back down when the Trump regime threatened it with huge tariffs, but also retaliated with huge tariffs of its own, plus a freeze on the export of rare-earth elements that the US’s high-tech and defense industries depend on.
Harvard also pointedly defied the regime, issuing a clear rebuke to its attempt to interfere with academic freedom...The supreme court – in a rare unanimous decision – ordered Trump to facilitate the return of a legal US resident wrongly deported to a dangerous prison in El Salvador, without any criminal charges.
But the White House was defiant. On Monday, both Trump officials and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said they could not return Kilmar Ábrego García....“Of course, I’m not going to do it,” Bukele said when asked. Trump sat by his side with a smile on his face. The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, joined in the cruel imitation of justice: “That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him.”
What’s next?..I suspect the testosterone-poisoned lackeys around King Trump are urging him to hit back even harder, escalating their confrontations with China, Harvard and the supreme court. They view these showdowns as ultimate tests of the regime’s strength.
Think of it – they must be telling themselves and their boss – what prizes! If they defeat China, they have brought the world’s other economic powerhouse to its knees!
If they defeat Harvard University, they have been victorious over the world’s intellectual powerhouse!...Win these battles and no one will ever again doubt the power and resolve of the Trump regime!
Hopefully, Trump is smarter than this. He knows these three institutions will not back down. They are rich and powerful enough to defy Trump’s escalating threats and demands. They cannot and will not cower....If Trump escalates his wars against them, they’ll become even stronger in the eyes of their supporters and constituents, and much of the world...
They know the Convicted Felon does NOT have the upper hand on them. As the gentleman in the one video clip from a couple days ago said "China has existed for 5,000 years".
Harvard (as the TLP's Stuart Stevens described it) is "a hedge fund that offers classes". Harvard University has an endowment fund approaching a value equal to some large corporations. Additionally, it has a law school alumni base whose graduates sit at nearly every level of the legal system from state courts up to the SCOTUS and at law firms whose attorneys charge four figures an hour for their legal services. I'm pretty certain an extremely robust legal defense of the university is or in the process of being formed.
As for SCOTUS, I think Roberts and the conservative justices NOT named Thomas or Alito are likely coming to the realization their relevance as a co-equal branch of the US government is now in jeopardy. Pretty certain that is why they went 9-0 on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia decision and stating that anyone coming into DHS/ICE custody must be afforded due process before they can be expelled from the US.
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