You’re welcome. It’s a shame we lost the discussion though.
It is. I’ll attempt to summarize my thoughts on this.
This statement only furthers the notion that Trump is severely ignorant of government matters. He lacks a proper understanding of the Constitution and separation of powers. As has been pointed out SCOTUS does not initiate criminal investigations.
You’d think that someone with his exposure to lawyers and politicians would have a better understanding than John Q. Public about these things. However, I suspect that Trump’s interactions with lawyers only goes so far as picking up the phone to his lawyer and saying, “handle this.” Which is why his first instinct when challenged is to file a lawsuit.
As a result, Trump has demonstrated that he is an aloof individual. He has no inclination to understand the fundamentals of government. What’s going to happen is that Trump will tell one of his flunkies in the administration to put together a list of SCOTUS nominees. But because he lacks the knowledge base he won’t be able to call BS when said lacky shoves a liberal SC nominee in his face and says, “that one.” So your next SC justice nominee, should Trump be elected, will be determined by the likes of Roger Stone or Corey Lewandowski or some other nameless, faceless individual.
Furthermore, he does not appreciate the role of the SCOTUS. Their purpose is to review matters of law brought to them on appeal and either affirm or deny based on the Constitution, federal statue or some legal procedure. It is not to be an activist. We’ve had enough of that already.
Trump’s ignorance is approaching dangerous levels. He’s demonstrating that he should be nowhere near the SC nominating process.