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
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Maybe the Scalia’s, Thomas’s and Alito’s are just rare conservative birds. One would think that Kavanaugh and ACB who were persecuted by flaming leftists and their media sycophants would be baptized by fire conservative justices.
Apparently they succumb to their Dear Leader chief inJustice John Robs US.
Man, you better watch out. Whenever I bring this unfortunate fact up the pitchfork brandishing Trump cult of personality freepers come after me screaming “burn the heretic”.
Exactly. And because of this when you see a negative story about Trump, I turn the page, hit the delete key, throw something through my monitor, pull the plug and remind myself never to read another word by THAT author ever again.
That’s want constant fighting it out in public brings to the fight. The creation of a state of prejudice where you come in asking ok what lies is this pi$$ant journalist telling this time. I presume anything negative is false.
I’m beyond weary with people complaining about this Trump pick or that Trump pick, blah, blah, blah.
It’s the SWAMP.
President Trump tried to work with the GOPe and they stabbed him in the back at every opportunity.
It started with Rinse Penis as Paul Ryan’s pal and making him Chief of Staff and continued with Rex Tillerson and AG Barr.
They all betrayed President Trump and by extension the American people.
Thee end.
He hasn’t been great, that’s for sure. Or at least, very much turnstile operation.
He even erred in hiring. ;-)
OTOH, I think we might need to give some of these guys a break. You see the most riveting cases. But overall, these “conservative” justices are just that…they rule wisely on most unseen things. They rate as conservative if only because of the many unpublicized decisions.
So many people that President Trump went full court press for have turned out disappointing.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, by the way. If left to his own devices, Trump probably would have picked Michael Cohen to be the U.S. Attorney General. And I'm only half kidding about that.
EverTrumpers.
Make it ring too close to home for their favorite epithet. :)
But you’re right. If they are garbage, you’re right how much bowing happened for Trump just because he’s Trump and can do no wrong.
“I wish Trump would find some way to humbly admit that he made colossal mistakes with virtually everybody he picked”
Either that or, in this case, maybe Trump should look more closely at how Kavanaugh’s conclusions are based on his interpretation of the constitution.
Agree that they’re all weak, but also agree with Trump that Kav is likely the worst of the three. He is not now, nor has he ever been what we needed. He’s an establishment guy, through and through — country club, Georgetown Prep, Yale, Yale law, grandson of a Yale grad, frat guy. He got where he is by playing by the establishment rules and being liked by the right people. He has to be liked. His confirmation hearing was such a shock to his lifelong status as a go-along-to-get-along success story that the man was literally in tears.
Sorry, there’s no room for crybabies in defense of the constitution.
We needed another Clarence Thomas with an attitude of “I’ve never been liked by the right people. I’ve never cared, and I’m not going to start now. F-— off.”
Thomas is Yale law but he’s not now nor has he ever been establishment. Poverty in rural Georgia, Catholic seminary, etc. Classmate Robert Reich has described the law student Clarence Thomas as someone who rarely participated in b.s. class discussions and generally acted like he didn’t give a crap. That’s what we needed.
I was afraid this pu$$y was a compromised wimp when he was appointed.
Oh, gosh, was Tillerson ever a mess! Who put that guy forward for SoS?
Someone connected to Big Energy (obviously).
Rex was ok ignoring the bureaucrats in State, but then he turned on President Trump in the end.
He should have walked away gracefully.
I am not sure it is courage he lacks. It may be that he just differs from Trump on the decisions. Who knows?
If everyone thought like Trump then Trump would be President now.
He could only choose from the list Cocaine Mitch gave him.
The tapes? I think it was Bob “Watergate” Woodward.
Sadly Trump did many good things but he most likely is the worst at hiring and firing..Surprised he managed to run a business for as long as he has.
We’d be in a very different boat if Trump’s crappy picks were given the Harriet Miers treatment by the conservative base.
LOL. Who replaced Miers as nominee?
We’d be in exactly the same place we are now. Trump wasn’t getting anybody MAGA through China Mitch’s Senate. Guaranteed.
“I’m sure that Trump really needs your input on how to handle the press. /s”
I do wonder what Trump hopes to gain from publicly taking a poke at a sitting Justice who’s vote we may need on some legal matters relevant to the last ‘election’. I mean if we lose a 5-4 vote regarding the Pennsylvania legislature’s right to audit that election and Texas’ right to amend their election regulations, then Trump’s interview would be — shall we say — counterproductive?
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