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Supreme Court Reaches Warp Speed in Responding to Jack Smith’s Request
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Essentially they will rule that the wealthy are exempt from the law.
Trump isnt wealthy though, he just plays a wealthy man on TV
They will drop him if hes a liability, plain and simple
I've thought for years - long before Trump ever ran for president - that he's just a trust fund kid who spends his annual allowance on pretending to be a business man.
Basically he just flew around the country in a private plane, wore a bad suit and claimed to be in business, but no business he ever engaged in actually made money. His family real estate holdings existed before he was playing 'business' and his own investments have either failed completely or, in the case of New York real estate, underperformed compared to the market.
His family made him rich by the time he was nine years old, and he wrote a book about what a great businessman he was (despite not actually having built any of that wealth himself) and then he just pretended to be a business magnate until NBC came along and let him do it on television.
There is a significant number of people who can't differentiate between image and reality. If a writer creates horror books, they believe that writer is secretly a serial killer or similar. If an actor plays a stripper in a movie, they believe that actor really is someone who would work in the sex trade. They can't imagine it's an illusion. So for them, Trump is a magnate despite the evidence.
Philip K. Dick complained about people accusing him of being some sorta drug pusher cult leader given how much of works deals with religious themes and drug themes. Poor guy was a paranoid schizophrenic and definitely didn't need harassment for the crime of being a good writer.
Wealth is an illusion. If you act wealthy, people will assume you are wealthy.
Out of any appointment, Trump views his Supreme Court nominations as exceptionally disloyal. They'll be among the first victims of his retribution.
I think they'll come down hard against him.
I'm incredulous.
I think you are right to be cynical, but I agree that I don't think it's likely they'll throw him a bone on this. The arguments against him are pretty cut and dry, because in no way can you construe that it's within a president's duties to overturn or influence election results.
The Supreme Court loves States' Rights, and allowing Trump immunity here runs afoul of their beloved doctrine.
yep, they know if Trump wins, he has no need of a supreme court.
Yeah but in the process he will hurt the right people, also they're untouchable