There is a way to defeat Donald Trump, and one woman recently showed the way, a commentator said on Sunday.
Liberal political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen published a Substack post over the weekend, in which he talks about an instance in which Trump was "forced to concede defeat" after a public confrontation.
"In late February, Maine Governor Janet Mills made national headlines for standing up to Trump during a verbal altercation in the White House, during which the president threatened to withhold federal funding from the state if Mills didn’t comply with his February 5 executive order barring trans athletes from competing in sports that don’t comport with their gender at birth. But Mills wasn’t interested in bending to Trump’s will because she was following state law, which bars discrimination based on gender identity, and as she said, she’d be happy to let a judge decide in court," Cohen wrote.
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But it did not end there. Trump's White House ultimately gave up, according to the host his own YouTube shows.
"But after the dust had settled on Trump’s chest beating and grandstanding, on Friday, the Trump administration opted to quietly settle with the state of Maine, dropping its funding freeze and asking Maine to drop its lawsuit against the federal government," he added.
Continuing, Cohen wrote, "It’s worth highlighting this development because Trump wielded the full force of his position against Mills."
"He verbally accosted her from the White House, singling her out and threatening her among her colleagues. He tried to illegally freeze federal funding to her state as political retribution. Whatever he could do to Mills, he did. But still she fought back. And she won," he said before calling it "the issue of our time."
"At some point or another, every company, institution, CEO, media outlet, law firm, and university is going to have to choose: when threatened by Donald Trump, will you capitulate or will you fight?" the host asked. "I understand the desire to capitulate. No one wants to sign up for a fight against the most powerful person in the world. But keep in mind, first of all, the immense damage inherent in capitulating."