Donald Trump’s angry at Brett Kavanaugh — but this court is a huge win for the far right – By Heather Digby Parton (Salon) / July 14 2021
The Supreme Court didn’t overturn the election — but in the long run it will do immense damage to democracy
According to “Landslide,” Michael Wolff’s new book about the final days of the Trump administration, former President Trump is very disappointed in his handpicked Supreme Court justices, particularly Brett Kavanaugh. As Axios reports:
There were so many others I could have appointed, and everyone wanted me to. Where would he be without me? I saved his life. He wouldn’t even be in a law firm. Who would have had him? Nobody. Totally disgraced. Only I saved him.
He did? Kavanaugh had a lifetime appointment on the D.C. Court of Appeals when Trump nominated him and would have sailed through the nomination process for the Supreme Court if Christine Blasey Ford hadn’t stepped forward with her accusations of sexual assault when they were high school students. Trump has reportedly claimed that Republican senators begged him to pull the nomination saying, “Cut him loose, sir, cut him loose. He’s killing us, Kavanaugh.” Trump supposedly responded, “I can’t do that,” telling Wolff, “I went through that thing and fought like hell for Kavanaugh — and I saved his life, and I saved his career. At great expense to myself … okay? I fought for that guy and kept him.”
