Posted on 07/14/2021 8:16:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to a new book by Michael Wolff, Donald Trump said he’s “very disappointed” in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s votes on the court and bemoaned that Kavanaugh “hasn’t had the courage you need to be a great justice.”
Trump reportedly expressed his views to Wolff in an interview for his book.
Can anyone tell me why Trump is giving an interview to Michael Wolff? Did he forget about Wolff’s book Fire and Fury? That book was endlessly hyped in the media because of a number of alleged bombshells it was supposed to contain. Wolff himself claimed his book would “finally end” the Trump presidency.
Of course, after Fire and Fury became a bestseller, the book was revealed to be full of fiction. Wolff would eventually admit that the book was full of lies. Still, the endless coverage of the book, a media blitz most authors can only dream of getting, contributed to a number of anti-Trump narratives being believed by the left and the Never Trump right. The book ended up selling nearly five million copies.
“I am an observer: I investigate nothing,” Wolff said in response to criticism of Fire and Fury. “All I do is look and write what I see and what I hear, and my job — which has nothing to do with truth — is to take what I see and what I hear and write that in a way that readers can come as possible — as close as I came — to the experience of doing this.”
So, I have absolutely no idea why Trump is talking to this man. “The fact that he was talking to me might only reasonably be explained by his absolute belief that his voice alone has reality-altering powers,” Wolff says
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Trump errored many times in regard to hiring and firing.
I’m sure that Trump really needs your input on how to handle the press. /s
All of Trump’s SC picks will turn out to be huge disappointments.
Gorsuch has already sided with the “Celebrate Perversity” crowd.
Is this the same guy that Trump told him he down played the covid to the people.
I wish Trump would find some way to humbly admit that he made colossal mistakes with virtually everybody he picked for an important appointment and let us know some way that we could know if he was put back in office it would not happen again.
I remember when John Roberts was nominated and Laura Ingram went on about his “courage”. A big law firm ivy league pnoney ladder climber who never did a brave thing in his life.
These are legal wonks looking for an easy life and they aren’t dependable.
Brett Kavanaugh ‘Hasn’t Had the Courage Others Needed to Get Him On the Bench’
Too bad the AlwaysTrumpers immediately declared victory and heaped praise on the Donald for anyone and everyone he appointed, drinking the kool-aid about what awesome “Scalia-like originalists” they were.
We’d be in a very different boat if Trump’s crappy picks were given the Harriet Miers treatment by the conservative base.
And how would he demonstrate that if the same people who grew up his awesome list of "originalists" were in charge of making the NEXT list?
The only way it "would not happen again" is if Trump's base showed some objectivity and didn't immediately have orgasms and blindly support and adore every judge he nominated.
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Kavanaugh is a fraud. He does whatever Roberts tells him.
Someone gave Trump a list of jurists that could be pass nomination.
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Maybe the left was right. Maybe he his just a cowardly drunken rapist after all.?.?.
RE: Trump errored many times in regard to hiring and firing
Let me count the ways (including appointments) ... just off the top of my head:
Dr. Fauci ( on top of the list )
Bill Barr
John Bolton
Christopher Wray
Brett Kavanaugh
Amy Coney Barrett
TO be fair, he also made some great choices. His Press Secretaries come to mind.
Really? What did he expect from Kennedy’s hand-picked successor?
Like so many other things that crippled him during his tenure, he simply did not possess a deep enough understanding of the law to select a solid conservative jurist.
Apparently the author doesn't pay attention. Trump has a 40 year history in the public eye. He's pretty consistent, he loves media, good or bad. He embraces the philosophy that all publicity is good publicity. We can all disagree but people wrote large volimes of scathing stuff about Trump for 40 years and he became President and none of us did so there's that.
He also values loyalty above just about anything else. It seems he will give almost anyone a chance to work with him but if they betray him they are dead to him. I think he was too open minded about the "allow almost anyone a chance to work with him" part, of course. But here we see how he reacts to betrayal. I'm sure Kavanaugh sold him a bill of goods in private and here we are.
So what does a man who doesn't fear the press AT ALL but hates to be betrayed do when he's asked by a hostile media member to talk about someone who betrayed him? This.
The absolute worst at picking cabinet members that I have ever seen. Incredibly stupid going into an “election” where he knew there would be rampant fraud with DS stooges Barr and Wray minding the store.
Whether Trump chose poorly, or whether the choices were foisted on him by a virtual gun to the head by Mitch, it is clear now that having a GOP president has little to do with getting proper SCOTUS picks.
No way was Harriet Miers qualified for the job, even on paper. Kav was. What disqualified him was that he froze up when he hit the big leagues.
Well good. Trump admits he is a failure at nominating SC justices. He is a self admitted loser. Do not re-nominate this man.
A good president would have done a better job with his nominations.
It was well known that Brett Kavanaugh played a leading role in the coverup of Vincent Foster’s death. He’s just another Trump mistake, which doesn’t excuse the behavior of the Democrats who lied about him.
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