Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Ronald Reagan wasn’t “a strong trade guy” in justifying why a judge appointed by the former president voted to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade, which included a Trump, Reagan, and Obama appointee, voted unanimously to block Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on Wednesday.
Lutnick first called the Trump appointee, Timothy M. Reif, a “Democrat judge.”
Lutnick: What you call a Trump judge is just one of these blue slip judges meaning it was a Democrat judge… While we love Ronald Reagan, on trade, he just was not a strong trade guy. pic.twitter.com/ctQjur3lzX
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“He was not happy with the panel because what you call the ‘Trump judge’ is
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