GOP Hypocrisy

Trump Threatens the Supreme Court Will ‘Get What They Deserve’ for Not Keeping Him President

Former President Donald Trump is once again moaning baselessly about election fraud and in a statement released late Monday, he derided the Supreme Court and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for refusing to participate in his attempt to subvert democracy and overturn the 2020 election.

Trump seems incapable of moving on, and in the statement, released through his Save America PAC, he insisted the high court “will get what they deserve” because it rejected a long-shot Texas lawsuit that was an attempt to toss out election results in four battleground states, TalkingPointsMemo reports.

“Our politically correct Supreme Court will get what they deserve — an unconstitutionally elected group of Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our Country. With leaders like Mitch McConnell, they are helpless to fight. He didn’t fight for the Presidency, and he won’t fight for the Court,” Trump said in the statement. “If and when this happens, I hope the Justices remember the day they didn’t have the courage to do what they should have done for America.”

But what Trump really means, of course, is that McConnell and the court didn’t bend to his will. Undoubtedly the Justices examined all the legal ramifications of the lawsuit and found them lacking. This what Trump does whenever he doesn’t get his way. He’s a petulant toddler in a grown man’s body.

This little diatribe against the Supreme Court and his continued efforts to undermine McConnell comes right after Trump called the top Senate Republican a “dumb son of a b*tch,” during a speech at the Republican National Committee’s spring donor retreat at Mar-a-Lago Saturday.

When his anti-McConnell sermon ended, Rick Scott, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee presented Trump with the “Champion of Freedom Award.”

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday that calls for the establishment of a commission to study potential reforms that could be made to the Supreme Court. While Trump continues to make childish jabs at McConnell it’s a hopeful sign that the high court faces potential reform.

That seems to be lost on McConnell, however, who’s also firing off a few jabs himself, at President Biden, deriding his decision to establish a commission, claiming in a statement that it is a “direct assault on our nation’s independent judiciary and yet another sign of the Far Left’s influence over the Biden administration.”

“President Biden campaigned on a promise of lowering the temperature and uniting a divided nation,” McConnell wrote. “If he really meant it, he would stop giving oxygen to a dangerous, antiquated idea and stand up to the partisans hawking it.”

But as it stands, the court is heavily one-sided, with six justices that are conservative and only three who are progressive. Biden’s bipartisan commission will be helmed by at least three dozen legal minds, all of whom will be examining the complex issues of civil- and voting rights, the possibilities of expanding appellate courts, and implementing additional ethics rules for judges.

So Trump and McConnell can sit down. This sounds like a welcome change.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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