HOW MANY people President Trump has appointed have betrayed him?

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[Albion Wilde]

Gorka is the son of two parents who escaped from Communism. If anything it proves Lin Wood is as nuts as I thought he was.

On the one hand, your deduction is logical; on the other hand, the Vindmans were also born under communism. And 75% of American Jews voted for the socialist Democrats, in spite of "Nazi" having been the tagline of Hitler's National Socialist party. To quote one of the last real Americans, Chuck Berry, “it goes to show you never can tell.”

[Albion Wilde]

And by the way, many commenters at the DailyMail swear that Melania is a Russian spy.

[Albion Wilde]

Pompeo and Ben Carson only two cabinet members who remained loyal

And Steve Mnuchin, Treasury; Sonny Pursue, Agriculture; Wilber Ross, Commerce; and Eugene Scalia (son of the late Jusitice Antonin Scalia), Labor.

[MayflowerMadam]

OMG. That’s insane, isn’t it?

[dsm69]

Thanks

[Reno89519]

Read this post! It even lists SCOTUS nominees for betrayal. What more needs to be said?

[2CAVTrooper]

Pence should be #1 on the list followed by Jarrod with Ivanka at #3, and the rest of the list can follow accordingly.

[LS]

You are correct. Even my court guru, Zen Master, thought (and to a significant degree, still thinks) K, Gorsuch, and Barrett will be stellar picks. But that may depend on whether the Ds pack the court.

BTW, there is a VERY good discussion of St. Bork in Steven Hayward’s multi-volume set on Reagan. He argues that at the time there were many conservative scholars who thought Bork was NOT an “originalist” and that in fact he would not be very reliable. Course, we’ll never know.

The one thing that stands out is you have to go back to the 1960s to find a liberal judge who became more conservative over the years, but you find plenty going the other way.

[MarvinStinson]

Bill Barr says Trump’s election fraud claims ‘precipitated’ Capitol riot in his first TV interview since resigning as Attorney General

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9162845/Bill-Barr-says-Trumps-election-fraud-claims-precipitated-Capitol-riot.html

[MarvinStinson]

Homegrown insurgency’: General McChrystal compares MAGA rioters to Al-Qaeda - saying they also followed a ‘powerful leader’ - and claims that ‘Stop the Steal’ is a rallying cry like the Lost Cause was after the Civil War

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9154623/General-McChrystal-compares-MAGA-riot-evolution-Al-Qaeda.html

[Vaquero]

So he’s worse than a do nothing.

[MarvinStinson]

The FBI under Christopher Wray has come to specialize in the creation of laughably false narratives designed to slander President Donald Trump and his supporters. Wray has really shifted that aspect of his propaganda operation into high gear in the wake of the clearly stolen presidential election that he and his raging dumpster fire agency helped to secure through rank indifference and refusal to investigate.

https://dbdailyupdate.com/2021/01/19/sundays-riot-narrative-having-failed-fbi-creates-convenient-new-anti-trump-narrative/

[Armscor38]

“Good observation. You have to imagine that they had more conversations with President Trump than anyone else. Trump really seems blinded by Ivanka being his daughter.”

Many members of PDJT’s inner circle came and went but Jared and Ivanka remained throughout.

[BillyBoy]

>> BTW, there is a VERY good discussion of St. Bork in Steven Hayward’s multi-volume set on Reagan. He argues that at the time there were many conservative scholars who thought Bork was NOT an “originalist” and that in fact he would not be very reliable. Course, we’ll never know. <<

Well the whole reason Bork's nomination failed is he WAS an outspoken "fire-breather" (Ford considered him for SCOTUS, saying Bork was an "ideal conservative" but concluded that Bork's role in Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" made him "unconfirmable"). After Bork's nomination was defeated in the late Reagan era, the mindset was "it doesn't matter what the judge's PERSONAL views are, all that matters if he CLAIMS his "judicial philosophy" is "originalist", and that will magically guarantee he always votes the right way). The latter mindset gave us Souter, Roberts, and Trump's trio of SCOTUS judges (none of which have proven to "Scalia-like" judges yet, and I think 2 of which are highly unlikely to EVER be that way)

Bork was even MORE of a fire-breather AFTER his nomination failed (converting to traditionalist Catholic and writing the "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" stuff), so it would be weird if HE turned out to be a dud. I don't rule it out though...Tom Coburn was a bit like that (the MOST outspoken "anti-establishment" no-compromise conservative in the House, then went squishy and joined the status quo after became a Senator)

>> The one thing that stands out is you have to go back to the 1960s to find a liberal judge who became more conservative over the years, but you find plenty going the other way. <<

The one "oopsie" moment that hyptholetically could have happened on the left is if Obama had appointed Illinois Supreme Court Anne Burke to SCOTUS, as she was supposedly on his "short list" and she is the wife of an entrenched & extremely powerful Chicago Democrat machine alderman (Ed Burke), and I'm sure Obama owes lots of favors to. Anne Burke turned out to be surpingly decent on the IL Supreme Court and authorized a number of decisions favorable to "our side" (like declaring its constitutional to require parents to be notified before a minor can have an abortion, and striking down the RATS blocking conceal carry in Illinois as UNconstitutional, since the other 49 states made it the law of the land) During her first couple years of the IL Supreme Courrt she was a blank slate, so Obama could have appointed her without knowing she'd turn out to be a sane & decent judge.

I also gave about a 10-15% chance that Sonia Sotomayor would go "wobbly" on the RATS, only because I saw her as having a weak legal mind and easily swayed by others. Alas, she's been a solid dependable commie.

[DoodleBob]

I don't know if you're familiar with Martin-Quinn scores, which are a liberal-conservative measure of a SCOTUS justice. Here is a plot of each justice's MQ scores since the 40s. As you note, in contemporary times all justices trend liberal over time, though I suspect some element of "liberal" may be libertarian and not totally bad. Nonetheless, the trend is real.

Here is How Often Each Justice Agreed With Roberts This Term- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s agreement rates with justices on the liberal end of the spectrum matched those with the most conservative justices.

Btw, many believe ACB replacing RBG will be as transformative as Thomas replacing Marshall. We shall see.

Finally, on Bork...It is strange how things work out. Consider Justice Kennedy...he was the third choice after Bork. Many people were peeved that Bork never made it to the court. But Bork died on December 12, 2012. Thus, had we gotten Bork, we'd also have had an Obama replacement for him vs a Trump replacement for Kennedy. Parenthetically, I thought Bork was a closet statist, and maybe he wouldn't have sided with the majority in Heller. If so, then not only would a SCOTUS Bork have been replaced by Obama, but perhaps he'd have gutted the palladium of the liberties of our republic.

[LS]

Great chart. Thank you.

As for Bork, I’m no student at all. All I know is that in Hayward’s huge bio of Reagan (2 vols) he devoted considerable ink to the argument that Bork wasn’t nearly as conservative as some conservatives thought, and he certainly wasn’t an “originalist.” Hayward’s biggest observation was that Bork was in love with arguments for arguments’ sake-—not the outcome, which leads me to think he could have become more “Roberts-ish.”

[GOPJ]

Every betrayer has been self-outed; otherwise we wouldn’t know what kind of scumbags they really are...

Something is seriously wrong when a government of the people, by the people, for the people has morphed into a government of the corrupt, by thugs, and for the compromised.

[DoodleBob]

You're welcome.

Re: Bork-Net-net-net, I prefer the squish Kennedy and a Kavanagh replacement (for now...time will tell) that we got, vs the theoretical good and (possibly a lot of) bad of Bork and a likely Obama replacement with some looney.