I am convinced that Donald Trump has people in his circle who deliberately delay giving him bad news. The Washington Post story about Jack Smith petitioning the Supreme Court to decide the presidential immunity issue broke early Monday morning. Commentary was swift to follow and from Truth Social? Crickets. Dark side of the moon. Nothing to see or hear.
But that couldn’t last forever, right? Because even if Team Trump doesn’t want to tell the Mango Messiah what has taken place, you know good and well that he will be in front of a television set before too long, and Fox News or Newsmax or OAN or somebody is going to be talking about what Trump perceives as the latest affront. And so here’s the return volley to the shot across Trump’s bow that Jack Smith lobbed earlier today.
What’s that you say? It wasn’t signed by Trump but by an anonymous spokesperson who sounds just like Dummy Donald, other than the use of screaming all-caps is not present? That was my instinct, too, that there’s more to the story here than meets the eye. I’m wondering if Trump actually knows about this, to be honest. I think some aides may have just done some fancy footwork because they had to and that they’re dealing with the real issue, which is telling him. And he will be blisteringly livid when he finds out. That’s a guarantee. My sense is that he’s going to explode and unload with a series of binge posts. He may have authorized something in the meantime, but this is not the last you will hear.
I do like the fact that this person, or Trump himself, claims to have 150 million supporters. That would be basically all of the people who voted in the last election and fully half of all American citizens, which total 330 million, approximately. Or, maybe Trump is allowing for his supporters who can’t vote, who are in the cradle even, waving their MAGA rattles and who would vote for him if they only could. But if Donald has his way, they’ll never get to vote for anybody, because we won’t be a constitutional republic or a representative democracy anymore, once he gets back in. Donald will make life simple, no more elections, that’s a guarantee.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Trump's delay tactic backfired. SCOTUS grants expedited review of Special Counsel’s petition filed today seeking immediate review of Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claim * related constitutional claims. Trump’s response is due by 4 pm December 20. pic.twitter.com/oWqW72vFDe
— KD (@Fly_Sistah) December 11, 2023
There’s SCOTUS’ Christmas present to you, Donnie, you need to get your response in by 4:00 p.m. on the 20th. What I love about this is that Trump is the personification of the frivolous litigant. He’s filed many thousands of lawsuits. His middle name really should be changed from John to Litigious. He never heard the old adage that “the law should always be used as a shield, never as a sword.” No, he only uses it as a sword and he whips out the sword of litigation the way the rest of us grab a toothpick.
Meidas Touch reports that Donald Trump has been involved in over 4,000 lawsuits in his lifetime as both plaintiff and defendant. He has threatened to sue people hundreds of times for defamation. On the rare occasions where he actually follows through with the lawsuit, all but one has been dismissed. It is very common for Trump to either sue or threaten to sue his critics. Bill Maher, who was sued by Trump for a line in his book, said, “Plainly, the guy uses lawsuits as a tool of intimidation.”
Absolutely. Trump is a guy who loves harassment suits. What is ironic in the extreme is that he now believes himself to be the victim of any number of harassment suits, including this most recent petition to the Supreme Court. He sees that as a harassment suit, comically. No, Donald, it’s meant to clarify the law. And once the law is clarified, then your bullshit disinformation scheme won’t work anymore and you’ll have to come up with another one.
The only problem there is that there are only so many potential defenses and Trump is running out of them. He desperately needs a real Perry Mason moment, or better yet a real Perry Mason, but there’s no chance of that. Trump’s future just got a lot grimmer and dimmer. Unless I miss my guess, he may have a doctor in attendance right now, calming him down so he doesn’t have a stroke.
He’s really complaining that he was upstaged. The tactics were to drag it through verious levels of sppeal and stretch it out right up to election day. By short-circuiting that long, slow process, it just means he won’t have the “But I have to campaign” excuse when he’s in the dock
“How DARE he go to MY Supreme Court???? Doesn’t he know that I’m too important for all of this?. I’m the only one allowed to appeal!!!!”
Well, whoever the “Trump spokesperson” was that wrote the piece should remember that the Supreme Court doesn’t usually hold bias against specific attorneys involved in actions brought before them (and I can’t actually find anything where Smith himself argued before SCOTUS–though I didn’t do an exhaustive search; he does seem to have brought the initial case but as to arguing the case before SCOTUS, I can’t find that–but I digress . . .).
But the real impact of the McDonnell case FROM THE COURT’S OWN DECISION was to narrow the scope of the bribery charges that were brought against McDonnell. ON THE OTHER HAND, from what I could read of the history of the case, McDonnell’s real crime was failing to consider the optics of what he was doing. He hosted functions AT THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION that promoted a tobacco company’s product AND he and his wife had received “gifts” from the company’s CEO. Now the brief overview of the case at both Wiki and the SCOTUS’s own blog doesn’t suggest that McDonnell had actually engaged in any quid pro quo behavior nor did McDonnell get any legislation passed that would benefit the company but his actions gave a definite appearance of something “untoward” taking place.
But the “spokesperson” seems to forget, in “his” zeal to slam Smith, that SCOTUS hasn’t exactly been all that favorable to Trump over the past 6 years. Sure they gave “him” some wins but they also really “let him down” in almost everything related to the 2020 election.
I remember the Bill Maher lawsuit. It was for a joke Maher made alleging that trump was the product of a human-orangutang pairing and offered (I think it was) a million dollars for Trump’s birth certificate. The mango moron actually produced it, expecting to get paid and sued when Maher told him to piss off.
The court staff is probably still laughing about that one. I know I am.
Not to be a wet blanket or anything but the s.c. hasn’t yet heard the case let alone decided it. There are at least five members who I seriously doubt have a problem with the Unitary Executive Theory as trump applies it to himself. I also do not think they even blinked when he decided he would give voice to his dictator aims. F.F.S. you have one person squatting on the bench who is married to someone who assisted trump, etc. in their attempt to overthrow a free and fair election. The squatter has not even said boo to a goose about this attempt to, let’s face it, overthrow the legally elected government.
Look, I hope all nine realize the mango moron is a threat to their power-dictators only support courts who bow down to them. Five or six of them however might just think they will be able to operate freely under dicktator diapers: beer bong, the vagina, and uncle tom are that f*cking stupid. They would find out otherwise but it would be too late.