I had 52-48, but on paper you’d think Heitkamp would have voted for confirmation at least to get to 53. Murkowski was lynchpin for DEMs. I interpreted POTUS saying “closer than anticipated” the same. BUT whether 50-48, 53-47, 52-48 or 50-50 ... those counts all include Flake voting AYE (uggh!). Kudos to the Turtle for steering (PUSHING!) it through and Chairman Grassley for auditing the books. When Lindsey Graham told JUSTICE K that it was the wrong time and the wrong place to have a fair hearing by DEMs, it was the right time and place for POTUS to go for the WIN. It was a well deserved and hard fought win for JUSTICE K & the Constitution :)
Judge Jeanine, in her telephone interview with President Trump, made the VERY interesting observation that his “mocking” of Dr. Fraud in his Mississippi rally may have been a turning point, because it cleared the way for others (less bold) to question her veracity.
Jeanine repeated this assertion at least one more time in the interview & POTUS did not disagree.
I AGREE. The episode was BEYOND HILARIOUS. My wife and I were laughing our a$$es off when he did it. Who needs SNL? POTUS is FAR FUNNIER than they have been in decades!
Oh; and we LOVE that skit of his about Feinstein turning around and asking her staff: “Did we leak it?”
The man is GENIUS! Business, politics, entertainment, architectural development, foreign policy, trade policy, science (courage to trash Paris Accord), Constitution ... even spiritual leadership (return of God to center of public discourse, Jerusalem) ... he has it all.
Our own Renaissance Man.