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 ...
RE: I was afraid this pu$$y was a compromised wimp when he was appointed.
Some of Kavanaugh’s past decision as a Federal Judge were questionable in my mind, that’s why I was not that enthusiastic about him.
Unfortunately, the FAKE and EVIL sexual assault accusations against him overshadowed everything else.
The screening should have focused on his judicial philosophy instead of this false accusation.
Apparently they succumb to their Dear Leader chief inJustice John Robs US.
They succumbed to the bipartisan nature of the coup. They’re never sticking their necks out for Trump and MAGA.
You could pretty much throw in all the military officers that Trump picked.
It seems that he listened to advisers who may have been enemy infiltrators.
John Kelly wasn’t great either. He would sit behind Trump and make cringe faces or roll his eyes when Trump said certain things. Not much self control for a general.
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.
Exactly. It’s the institution that is the problem. A few fresh faces are not going to change the “structural” corruption of all our institutions. They are morbidly corrupt from top to bottom.
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.
Let's not forget that other loser, Sessions.
Yup - the very nature of the legal industry pushes up the most conformist, approval seeking characters.
Trump picked his nominations from a list provided by The Federalist Society, an organization of lawyers reputedly conservative. Maybe people here know more about this than they do, but I doubt it.
“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.””
Well Kavanaugh hasn’t been sitting in the court long enough. Though I’m disappointed in a couple of his decisions so far. Hopefully he comes into his own and expresses his originalist side soon.
Otherwise we’re screwed. Same go’s for Amy Barrett.
You left off Jeff Sessions, “the great recuser”. Can you imagine Eric Holder recusing himself from anything?
RE: Let’s not forget that other loser, Sessions.
Ahh yes, thanks for the reminder. His refusal to stand firm on his convictions opened the door to the Russia Collusion hoax that plagued this country for most of Trump’s administration.
The U.S. government is the exact opposite. It's run more like a publicly traded corporation. It has a "CEO" who is elected by the "shareholders" but who answers directly to a "board of directors" comprised of a House and Senate. While Trump was "CEO," I'd say he had the support of no more than 10% of the "directors" he answered to.
Now imagine how differently the Trump Organization would be operating if that was the case. We probably never would have heard of Donald Trump after 1985 if his company operated the way the U.S. government does.
I read somewhere that “you can take the man out of the Ivy League, but you can’t take the Ivy League out of the man.
I think Kav qualifies at “truer words were never spoken.”
RE: Same go’s for Amy Barrett.
I have to admit that I had high hopes for this lady.
Unfortunately, her FIRST decision on November 2020 and subsequent ones reveals to me that she is TIMID and refuses to tackle the difficult cases that would require her to make the hard but right decisions.
I call her the UN-INVOLVED Justice of the Supreme Court.
Wasn’t the list of possible picks released prior to the election...and everyone who supposedly knew these judges cheered wildly?
Mattis, Kelly, McMaster, Milley, Esper....
I have been sadly disappointed in all of Trump’s SCOTUS appointments.
What??
Amazingly this has been a thread of relative “safe haven”. Seems only NeverTrumpers happened to stumble on it yet.
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