There are two sides to every trade. Who would be willing to give up their BTC and ETH for banned Tether?
If they buy up their own debt at $0.01 on the dollar then they got away with their fractional reserving scheme, and their executives walk free. Free and very wealthy.
There is always a clearing price. The question is simply "how low"?
This is usually true in financial markets. When it's not, we call it a crisis.