The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that has been central to the president’s foreign policy and economic agenda.
There’s a term that I can’t recall about positioning a bad person as a less bad alternative in order to gain support.
So basically the theory is when Trump goes, they’ll say, look he was the bad one, it’ll all be better now with this other guy.