the oldest university i'm challenging, it's tax free status. this is dw news from berlin. you can get more news on our website that's dw com. the u. s. president donald trump signature trade policy now embroiled in legal battles . after court rulings ordering an end to his sweeping import terrace, an appeals court has reinstated them for now, this comes as the european union is trying to over a fresh wave of trump imposed terrace. so will it ultimately be the courts or diplomacy to rein in the president's trade war? i'm quite richardson in berlin. this is the day. the

market reaction in the short term as we've seen is really so the quote see the price is comparable to present trump, but we don't know what we don't know how far so. and so this is just the style of the, of a loan officer from really finding limits what need dislikes most. that is constitutional checks and balances. and the rule of law also on the day we go inside the crypto dinner turning heads in washington and raising questions about whether donald trump is using the presidency to enrich himself in real time. this is not normal, none of this is normal. this is out, land is this is illegal, this is unconstitutional raising corruption to our viewers. joining us from around the world,

welcome donald trump. trade strategy is the center of an unfolding, legal drama. after 2 federal court rules, most of his terrorist illegal appeals court reinstated them on thursday, trump use an emergency powers law to impose sweeping import tech taxes on most of the world. and what he called reciprocal terrace were launched with great fanfare on april. second. don't watch from called liberation day. judges, that to course the rule that the president had overstepped his authority. john harris, they said, are the constitutional domain of congress, not the white house, but the appeal process now keeps them in effect, at least temporarily. well, this legal tassel is set against the backdrop of global trade tensions and market uncertainty. last week, the u. s. president announced terrace up to 50 percent on the european union, only to put them on pause until july 9th. the trump administration sharply criticized the intervention of the courts in america cannot function if president

trump or any other president for that matter has their sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges. president trump is in the process of re balancing america's trading agreements with the entire world, bringing tens of billions of dollars in tariff revenues to our country. and finally ending united states of america from being ripped off. these judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the united states on the world stage. the administration has already filed an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal in an immediate administrative state to strike down this degree just decision. but ultimately, the supreme court must put an end to this for the sake of our constitution and our country. i'd like to welcome a band along a chairman of the european parliament committee for international trade currently in washington, leading a delegation of e u. lawmakers discussing trade. so welcome as, as this legal tassel works its way through the courts. is it changing the way that

the e u is going to be going into negotiations with the united states? so good even think um things uh for having this check. yes, i'm here in washington area. we're really trying to convince, i'd like to encounter parts of 3 ships, find a solution to award target for trade war and does this, so call it a baseline toes. indeed, an understanding not justified and not in line with the legal system as united states. and therefore, we are quite reluctant looking to what to the different level of court will decide on is that we wanted to have a stable relation, which is really based on a common understanding which is benefiting thing. both sides of not one is giving

pressure to the other side. and as you were meeting with the different stakeholders in washington, what is your impression is, is the mood there one that will be swayed by these arguments that you're bringing. i am convinced that this message that'd be one to negotiate in agreement or of interest. benefiting both sides is acceptable for a lot of stakeholders. we spoke this trade show needed. his business was civil society was a congress people and also with administration. i hope that's a sick good. let's sit together and find a solution. is also reached by the white house and that's a little suffice from my side that at the end of the day, really easy decision is taken by president trump. uh,

this is quite new. we have to learn that i hope that to visit can really make a difference. because at the end of the day, we should find a solution to not escalate. but of course, to put in union as a strong comic plus and to be ready if needed. also defend our interest, so a legacy issued when possible, but of course the situation if necessary. so if there is no deal by the now july 9th deadline, what specific retaliatory measures would the you be prepared to take? and how quickly of course, it's livid depending what's a legal situation that is at the moment the face mandy was to have a space on the to 3 to act. and there are some sex and she

goes on. we can discuss this is different to the so called baseline issue. so therefore, we are saying we could discuss about different types of levels bought. next up, purchase from you up to the united states, a on energy on send me contact up for a ivy saw just before of the media development. so they have possibilities to get together also in the intuition of shields on the globe to see a pressure the overall cost of ship from china. so let's look for a frame book which is reachable before the age of july. knowing that this baby not are comprehensive trade agreements so the details have to be develop. but for us is so important to have a stable situation and with

a frame good understanding. this should be the end of the story. not coming was district trailers and some weeks of months. know we want to have a stable situation for trade and for investors. so it sounds like you think july 9th is not necessarily a hard deadline. if you are able to find some kind of framework agreement at least a day before, do i understand that correctly? yes, we want to reach them. so now the negotiations really and the speed to different tools some weeks ago. that's good. and let's see what's possible, of course, there's needs also some compromise on both sides. we are flexible, but as i mentioned before, it is no agreement plus a book. then we will set temps on a lot of us products, which is really homie onto the interest of the united states. specifically,

i could cultural sector where aust, it problems a country you the and i hope that also from the culture of sickness, it'd be a signal to the white house to avoid further escalation. let's have a solution on negotiations. and one of the reasons many of from supporters supported these terrace was his promise that is, would help shift manufacturing back to american soil. how do you respond to the idea that e u. exports are somehow undermining american industry? first of all, it's a decision by industry of our consumers, which product to the bike is the fought, or portia. but i think if the machine we from your machine, we from the united states by the costs of prices of goods from look out, sometimes really higher than the prices of goods on the united states. but of

course, i can understand that for in the long run of the trade difference in goods is in stay. but i'm definitely going to really find some solutions to reduce this a difference in goods. on the other side, united states have a different have shipped to us in the services, big one, and i guess we should really to looks to the whole picture and then the differences . i'm not so big anymore on to this. i guess ship you recognize in the united states, but best i got chairman of the european parliament's committee for international trade. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on dw printer. thanks a lot. and i'm here today to say loud and clear with president trump crypto finally has a champion at ally in the white house,

our administration. we prioritize eliminating the read the red tape and the law fair that we saw him at crypto by our predecessor, we reject regulator. those up was to none this country into believing that this is just how government works. that he's owed us that every president is owed. this, the government is always been corrupt and he's just doing it out in the open. but this is not how government works. so vice president 80 vans saying crypto finally has a champion in the white house. and senator chris murphy, calling it breeze and unconstitutional corruption at the center of it all. a luxury dinner at trenton golf club last week, where access to the president was the prize and named coin millions, paved the way. now many are demanding a comprehensive list of who actually attended and where their money comes from. that dinner is also raising questions in washington about whether donald trump is

using the office of the presidency to fill his own pockets. come advertise his gall a dinner as the most exclusive invitation in the world. chinese billing just in some, one of just 220, mainly foreign guests posted a video of the experience on his instagram account. the aim was to promote sales of trump currency, which issued just before his inauguration, the biggest investors, including some, were the ones given a seats at the table. trump. so no problem with the event cooling it probably, but i'm rejecting claims that he was using it the formal money to his personal bank accounts. and the guess we using it to buy access to the president of the united states that trumpf opponents. what unequivocal in that condemnation we are here today talking about exactly one topic, corruption, corruption, and it's, i believe,

yes for donald trump is using the presidency of the united states to make himself richer through crypto. and he's doing it right out there in plain sight. to do it is just the latest example of what critics say is the president's exploitation of his position for private game. there's no clear information on exactly how much trumps income has increased since he began his 2nd time. the folds estimated his net worth in march just over $5000000000.00. 1000000000 more the last year for the white house and says there's no conflict of interest no wrongdoing, because the trump family business is now being run by the president. sons of that, don't know. seeing his assets are in a trust managed by his children to put trumps recent trips to the gulf had even right wing commentators asking questions about the blurring of the president's personal political and commercial interests. and it wasn't just

a controversial offer from could talk of a plane to replace apples one which many legal experts in the us fee could violate laws on taking gifts. something trump refutes that could be a stupid person say no, we don't want a free, very expensive airplay. uh but it was, i thought it was a great gesture. also raising eyebrows was the arrival of trump stones in the gulf just 2 weeks ahead of the father. and the success in securing a slew of deals for real estate projects, golf courses and quit. so contracts or with billions and additional wells for the trump family. and despite claims that that father will not personally benefit from these investments, cr 68 seems unlikely. the timing of the visit was coincidental. fueling concerns that trump is using all the power at his disposal to turn the highest office in america into a money making machine. i'd like to welcome jody victoria professor at

georgetown university where she explores the max us of corruption and us national security. joining us today from washington d. c. so let's start broad here. how unusual is it for a sitting us president to host a crypto fundraising dinner at his own commercial property? it's, it's remarkable. this has never occurred before in part because criptos are relatively new. new uh, sort of currency or wherever you want to call it. but in part, just this very, very blatant hosting of a dinner that is available. that is clearly individuals who paid for no way they paid for it. but there was this bizarre set of auction that occurred. but i mean, presidents before have done fundraising dinners and so forth. the fact that it was at a private residence, but also included a private tour of the white house for certain groups afterwards. the amount of

secrecy that was involved with it, the fact that there was auditioning through how much crypto currency that you bought was involved the highly questionable nature of crypto currency itself and whether it even should be considered a crypto currency. all of these really stand out as incredibly unique in the history united states when it comes to fundraising. and again, it wasn't for a political party, it was for his own personal private benefit. so this is really very, very unique. and these are important distinctions to make. another thing i find interesting about this dinner is that it involved high net worth of foreign nationals. what are the ethical and legal concerns that this would raise a number of them? we have the volume, it's clause, it's part of the constitution and not only that part of the constitution, but it was one of those areas that actually moved over from the, the articles of confederation which had existed before the constitution. it was

actually one of the items that was moved over from that prior agreement amongst the original states and the founding fathers to the actual us constitution itself signed in $1787.00. and so it was incredibly important, the founding fathers themselves to minimize the ability of foreign individuals to be able to give money to prison and type in other politicians and office they had seen in their history in the 18th century how it was at form potentates, cutting a basically like an a bad movie hand, a chest full of cash or gold to a foreign power, and then have that leader acting on behalf of that foreign power and not acting on behalf of their citizenry. so it's always been very illegal in united states. the trump administration and trump himself and his family members seem to have found an interesting loophole in that through the use of crypto currency, their use of private business. we don't exactly know a few of the board members who attended, but we don't know all of the members who attended because it was a private business because it was on private property. and because the supreme

court just to almost a year ago, gave and a remarkable amount of impunity to any future us present in this case, to trump, to be able to engage in acts that would normally be highly questionable. so all of that together and puts real questions under normal circumstances. it would be sort of a slam dunk that this is illegal. but in the current environment that we're in with the supreme court decision and trump versus united states, with how he used crypto currency the in. and i know many of those involved. all of those lead to real questions about what it actually hold up in the court of law that it's legal. you also have the issue because the 1st united states, particularly since trump 1st the united states, is not treated in laws the same way as others. conflict of interest laws for laws, for example, don't apply in the same way that it applies to everybody else. in his particular case, the normal um, sanction for these issues would be have impeachment,

but he's already in peach twice. he's gotten away with incredible levels of activity including organized, basically an attempted coup attempt, and he's still not only not been impeached and without that impeachment he's not been tried for those particular crimes. those crimes are moving very, very slowly through the courts. of course, in this part where the supreme court decision came down, it's very hard to see how you would it be impeached. yeah, additionally, he has worked very hard to make sure that those who would be a check on his power in the executive branch. he's broken a lot of the norms and executive branch by putting individuals into the executive branch who were willing to politicize office it. it appears to be blake campbell on the people i cache patel. tour have made it clear even before they were in the office. they would probably not go after his is crypt hit

any sort of his friends or his cronies and so forth. and even more interestingly, on the conflict of interest side, how many of those individuals themselves have been personally involved and crypto currency related items. you know, famously the secretary of commerce, the sector of treasury, but tash patel himself has been involved in crypto currency. even the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the new one that is, that is due to be approved to come in. he's even been involved in crypto. currently he is a new background compared to a terminal joint chiefs of staff. well, i visit the driver and i just jump in to ask a question because i, because i'm wondering if you think that the u. s. laws on the books are not strong enough to deal with this or where you see issues in the way u. s. government works that has allowed for all these loopholes to exist. so there are always a lot of loopholes in the law. and i, there's always been a certain amount of, you know, you know, you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours and then all political system to the little bit of that to get

things done. where the trump administration has come in, particularly in his 1st term, is who was very good at finding the loopholes where people had not done things because it was the norm. it wasn't expected. people just didn't think about it, like whatever, think of hosting a crypto currently doing, which part before even think of having the wrong crypto currency. so he and his supporters have been very good at finding these loopholes. oh, this is were one of the issues with the, with the prior bite and ministration. i think really stands out because for 2 years, the bite and ministration had the house, the senate and the presidency and could have closed a lot of these loopholes. a lot of these loopholes really stood out by the end of trump's 1st term. well, some of those, the were executive orders, as we know, of course, executive orders can be changed on a dime which they have been on the trumpet ministration. but the laws that would have close these loopholes they, they didn't go forward in the 1st 2 years and the binding ministration were when there was that opportunity. so laws against things like schedule f,

which allows support ization of the civil service. basically, undermining a 150 years of civil service reform that you need to have a functioning democracy. a lot of these loopholes in the ability of business to occur by sitting president. none of those were closed off in the 1st 2 years and by ministration at the chance, the trump administration. and now taking a mack truck to those if you will. they, they just taking those loopholes that they've already found. and they just blasted through them in really new ways and i think that's where we stand today. he's just really good at finding the legal loopholes and the, sometimes the legal ones. and just, you know, we talk about the guard rails of democracy. he is really good at figure out the ways the crash do those guard rails. yeah, so assuming that these loopholes won't be close under his administration. he said he's great a crashing through the guard rails and your view more widely to are the strong enough for us democracy for it, for a to resist a president using the office for personal enrichment. and unfortunately,

that's what we're going to find out in the united states. we've never had a situation like this in the world where sort of the world's leading state power in the world leading democratic state power in the world is been in a position with leadership that was willing to under engage, engage in what looks to be moving towards club talk proceed, which is run by deeds or state capture, whichever terminology you want to use in that situation. we've never had this situation before. us. a lot of all democratic systems work off of this series of norms and expectations that there will be enough people who support those norms. that even if the leader itself isn't interested in maintaining those norms, those around them will push them and push the system and push and defending institutions that keep that democratic system going. we really at this point don't know whether that's going to be the case. normally, at this point, it would be congress that would step in,

that's how the founding fathers set things up. this idea that if men were angels, we wouldn't need government and that the, the incentives of one branch of government to hold on to power would entice them to balance out the other branch of this government. so far, congress has not been willing to do that. it has not been acting in his checks and balance function. many of the courts have been, i've seen some to some statistics that as much as 90 plus percent of what the trump administration has put forward to the courts have been blocked or otherwise stopped . course were early in the process course take a long time. we're only 5 months into the administration, but so far they've blocked a lot of areas. this has been a judge has that come from both republicans and democrats. so they've been the primary check, but right now congress is not. can the judiciary continued to be that check, but we'll call the start of the check. and then what will the citizen redo, they've always been seen as a check on government as well. so far we have not seen the past pro, tests that we saw in the 1st trump administration,

and that's very concerning. well, thank you so much. it has been absolutely fascinating. thank you again for sharing your insights with us on the w, as in jodi inventory at georgetown university. thank you for having me today. european commission president ortho left on july and has been honored with the charlemagne prize and the german city and hold the line receive the award for her role in keeping europe a united resilience and capable of action. the international price has been awarded by the german cities since 1954 contributions to european unity funded line serving her 2nd 5 years term as president of the european commission. that's the news, powerful executive arm and that is our time. but make sure to stay and for them to stay engaged and stay in touch, you can follow our social media handle. it's dw news. we're also online at dw dot

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