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Donald Trump<\/a> announced on Saturday that he would raise a temporary tariff rate on US imports from all countries from 10% to 15%, less than 24 hours after the US supreme court ruled against the legality of his flagship trade policy.<\/p>\n Infuriated by the high court\u2019s ruling on Friday<\/a> that he had exceeded his authority and should have gotten congressional approval for the tariffs, the US president railed against the justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling them a \u201cdisgrace to the nation\u201d, and ordered an immediate 10% tariff<\/a> on all imports, in addition to any existing levies.<\/p>\n In a post on Truth Social on Saturday announcing the further increase, Trump wrote: \u201cI, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been \u2018ripping\u2019 the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level.\u201d<\/p>\n The law according to section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to impose a levy of up to 15% for 150 days, although it could face legal challenges. During that period, his administration will work on issuing new and \u201clegally permissible\u201d tariffs, Trump said.<\/p>\n The president also attacked the supreme court\u2019s 6-3 ruling as \u201cridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American\u201d in his Truth Social post.<\/p>\n In remarks at the White House on Friday, Trump told reporters: \u201cIt\u2019s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think.\u201d He added: \u201cI\u2019m ashamed of certain members of the court. Absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what\u2019s right for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n He praised the three justices who dissented in the opinion: Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote the main dissent, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The others \u2013 including two of his appointees, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch \u2013 drew his derision.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re just being fools and lapdogs for the Rinos [\u201cRepublicans in name only\u201d] and the radical-left Democrats, and not that they should have anything at all to do with it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019re very unpatriotic and disloyal to our constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n He called Barrett and Gorsuch \u201can embarrassment to their families\u201d and said they were \u201cbarely\u201d invited to the State of the Union address next week.<\/p>\n Asked for evidence of foreign influence over the supreme court, Trump replied: \u201cYou\u2019re going to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Trump #raises #tariffs #imports #countries #Trump #tariffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump announced on Satu… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}