LOVING MSNBC's Home Page "If Trump Fucks With The Bull Known As Leonard Leo, He'll Get The Horn" story
NOT THE ACTUAL HEADLINE. That would be Trump may have chosen the wrong scapegoat this time , which is, of course, a different way of saying it.
Here's the article:
Trump just turned on the architect of his biggest first-term victories
The president attacked the Federalist Society and its co-founder Leonard Leo, a key adviser to Trump on judicial nominations during his first term.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-judges-federalist-society-leonard-leo-rcna209993
Last week, Donald Trump turned his fire on the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative advocacy group, and its co-founder Leonard Leo, a key adviser to Trump on judicial nominations during his first term. In a post on Truth Social, Trump called Leo a “sleazebag” and blamed the Federalist Society for “the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations.”
The impetus for the post was a ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade holding that he did not have legal authority for his most sweeping tariffs (an appeals court paused the ruling the following day). When something goes wrong for Trump, he always looks for a scapegoat — and his political allies aren’t immune to such treatment.
However, in the Federalist Society and Leo, Trump may have chosen the wrong targets. It is self-destructive to throw them under the bus when they have deep and continuing ties to members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, and when their political operation was crucial to Trump’s judicial nominations in his first term.
As Politico reports, “Trump’s relationship with [Leo] is known to have grown strained” after the fiasco of Trump’s 2020 election denialism and coup attempt. The president was sorely disappointed that the Supreme Court, including the three justices he appointed in his first term, did not do what it had done 20 years earlier when it, in effect, threw the election to George W. Bush.
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