Posted on 09/15/2016 7:52:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The eccentric billionaire endorsed Trump in a speech at the Republican National Convention this summer.
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer. Sources say GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump would nominate Thiel to the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court if he wins the presidency, Thiel has told friends, according to a source close to the PayPal co-founder.
Trump “deeply loves Peter Thiel,” and people in the real estate mogul’s inner circle are talking about Thiel as a Supreme Court nominee, a separate source close to Trump told The Huffington Post. That source, who has not spoken to Trump directly about Thiel being nominated to the Court, cautioned that Trump’s offers often fail to materialize in real life.
It’s not clear whether Trump has indeed offered to nominate Thiel ― only that Thiel has said Trump would nominate him and that Trump’s team has discussed Thiel as a possible nominee. Both sources requested anonymity, given that Trump and Thiel have each demonstrated a willingness to seek revenge against parties they feel have wronged them. In Thiel’s case, he secretly financed lawsuits against Gawker.com with the intention of destroying the publication. He succeeded, and his role in the assault was only revealed in the final stages.
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I love the scene where he talks about the value of a modern college education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4seubKdRs4
i will wait for confirmation of this story
i suspect it is a HuffPost plant trying to undermine Trump’s voter base
(but anything’s possible, yes)
Sources say? Yeah someone on the left thought that by throwing out this name might help turn people against Trump. That’s the source.
Trump has proven himself to be the master of Thinking Outside the Box, and Winning, both in the business world and now the universe of politics. And that is exactly why he will be elected president.
Trump may have joked about this to Thiel, but the likelihood that he would appoint someone so unqualified and who is a gay German libertarian rather than an American conservative is about zero. Thiel has very little in common with the people on the list of well-respected conservative judges Trump has said he’d choose from. I suspect the HuffPost is just trying to take away one of the best arguments Trump has for getting conservatives who personally dislike him onto his team.
“the HuffPost is just trying to take away one of the best arguments Trump has for getting conservatives who personally dislike him onto his team.”
And, most importantly... it’s a clickbait headline!
What? No! F***!
this is baloney.
Actually I am all for appointing some non-attorneys to SCOTUS.
That institution must be broken out of its groupthink bubble.
Does he even have a legal background?
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-peter-thiel-supreme-court-2016-9
Donald Trump has made it clear he will nominate Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court if he wins the presidency, Thiel has told friends, according to a source close to the PayPal co-founder.
Yeah, these unnamed sources. And your points are excellent. Trump jokes a lot, Trump tosses out ideas like confetti sometimes. And the HuffPos is just trying to discourage Trump supporters, simple.
Huffington Post cites a person close to Thiel as the source of this report, but Thiel's spokesman Jeremiah Hall denied the rumor, telling Business Insider: "Peter hasn't had any conversations about a Supreme Court nomination and has no interest in the job."
Trump's press secretary, Hope Hicks, told Business Insider that there's "no truth to this whatsoever."
Somewhat. He has a JD from Stanford and clerked in the 11th Circuit court of appeals for one year.
But one of the biggest turning points in Thiel's early career was actually a rejection, as Above the Law noted on Friday.
Specifically, Thiel was turned down for clerkship positions under US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Thiel discusses the missed opportunity — and the opportunity that it created — in his book, "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future," as highlighted by Above the Law:
After clerking on a federal appeals court for a year, I was invited to interview for clerkships with Justices Kennedy and Scalia. My meetings with the Justices went well. I was so close to winning this last competition. If only I got the clerkship, I thought, I would be set for life. But I didn’t. At the time, I was devastated.
is he even a lawyer?
The huff has no clue as to what’s going on in Trump’s inner circle.
Huff po planted story. Trump gave us his list already.
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