June 5, 2017
LAUGHINGSTOCK:
Trump Bolsters Legal Case Against His 'Travel Ban' in Insane Tweetstorm (Eric Levitz, 6/05/17, New York)
Say a prayer for the unscrupulous Justice Department lawyer in your life: As a Supreme Court battle over Trump's "travel ban" looms, the president chose to start his week by trading the credibility of his administration's case for some likes and retweets. [...]The president has the impulse control of a 14-year-old who just discovered Red Bull-vodka shots -- and the racial politics of an elderly white man who just discovered Breitbart. Trump's Monday tweetstorm is yet another example of that first trait mitigating the destructive potential of the latter one.The president's latest posts make life harder for defenders of his embattled executive order for at least four reasons...
Our friends on the Right really need to figure out that as you are defending him he's undercutting you. He's not actually defensible.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 5, 2017 11:42 AM