Judge Napolitano talked about visit to Trump tower -- frankly it is terrifying -- SCOTUS

[anneboleyn]

Napolitano was on Shep Smith's show, which I almost never watch (though once in awhile Shep says things that are hilariously un-Fox -- he was very bemused by the Putin/prostitutes comment -- honestly I don't know how he even stays on Fox). Napolitano described his visit to Trump tower this morning to discuss Trump's "ideas" for his SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT. Napolitano was trying to be polite as he is a Trump fan, and yet the details that leaked through are just stunning and frankly terrifying.

Trump is so delusional, so ignorant, and so egomaniacal that it may be even worse than we fear. The description (and again Napolitano wanted to flatter the Orange) was just surreal. The judge said that the initial matter Trump brought up was not about legal theory or SCOTUS but whether or not Napolitano believed the Russians hacked the election and/or had kompromat on Trump (basically it was a loyalty test though Napolitano didn't say that explicitly). Then Trump asked him very basic historical questions about the court that any junior high school student would know -- as in "can the court do this?" "Can the court do that?" "which president had the most impact on the court and how can I fill the court with MY people?" "Can the court allow me to tax and pass tariffs and so on w/out congress?" "Can the court allow me to do other things (to get around congress) if I install the right people?" Then he showed Napolitano his "secret" list, which contains Scalia clones apparently, and we can expect to learn of his choice next week or the week after next. Yay.

Of course I am paraphrasing but it was worse than even I would have expected. The total ignorance on display -- Trump really has NO IDEA what these institutions do -- just stunning -- Trump makes Bush II look like an absolute Rhodes Scholar. And of course it is wild ignorance combined with a completely unfettered, rampaging, vicious id that is out to punish and bully anyone who was or is "disloyal." Trump is loyal to nothing except Trump and his own desires.

Then Trump apparently thought it would be funny to ask Napolitano to scare the CEO of BOEING -- who was the next "guest" summoned to his office -- a CEO of a company that employs many Americans and which Trump for vague reasons has been bashing -- with various comments about how Boeing will be punished if the CEO doesn't fulfill the Orange's demands. Again I am paraphrasing but this is the gist of it (imho), and even given what we know already I find it stunning. The "funny" threats? The corruption? The blatant "I love Putin" agenda? The fact that he wants to use the court to force through HIS AGENDA and use the court to exert his will?

[bettyellen]

1. Holy shit! Hopefully someone will get a link to a transcript- and thank you for the summary!

[hurple]

6. yes, yes...

someone find a transcript.

[HurricaneWarning]

18. Holy Shit

was the first thing I thought, and then, there it was. The first comment. Now I will read on.

[superpatriotman]

2. It's a horrowshow

Of the worst kind

[CanonRay]

3. I think the next 4 years or however long he lasts

are going to be worse than anyone can imagine. I suspect I'll be spending my golden years in a re-education camp.

[sheshe2]

4. Thank you for the summary.

This is terrifying. The man I stark raving mad.

[Jacob Boehme]

5. Ignorance and Arrogance has been and always will be a lethal combination.

[stevenleser]

7. Here is video

[mountain grammy]

12. I honestly couldn't watch for the entire 7 minutes..

made it to about 5...

[dhol82]

14. This is not the Shep Smith show

[HurricaneWarning]

21. Oh God.

This is not the correct video and now I have lost 7 minutes of my life listening to this crap.

[bettyellen]

22. I saw a 99 sec mini clip on Fox online and it was ass kissing crap...

[Richard D]

32. I'm pretty sure

A lot of my brain cells just keeled over dead.

[dumbcat]

8. If you have ever interrogated people, or even

wanted to establish someone's credibility, you often ask questions for which you already know the correct answer.

Not saying that is the case here, as legal "facts" have varying interpretations. But still ...

[tazkcmo]

26. I think that would also be bad

Napolitano already has credentials. He's one of them, too. So, it would only prove our point about how stupid Herr Twittler von Shit Gibbon. But more importantly, I also think that gives Shit Gibbon von Geld Wasser too much credit for brains and fore thought. He's an idiot and doesn't know shit about running a successful business much less our country or how our government works.

[Thor_MN]

9. What is next? Consulting with "I'm not a doctor but play one on TV" about Surgeon General?

[bucolic_frolic]

10. 'Can the Court do this or that?'

Sounds like he thinks he will be dismissing and replacing all 9 Justices!

By April!

[MFM008]

11. Why in the FF

do they run over there.
Tell maggot to fuck off.

[ananda]

15. Abuse/bully syndrome.

This is just so sad.

[Truth321]

13. Oh my

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Don't diminsh the wreckage of George W. Bush.

That man murdered, possibly a million Iraqi citizens, and countless more lives around the world. Destabilized the entire middle east. He was every inch the egomaniac that Trump appears to be. He just had a different sort of public persona to hide his mendacious stupidity.


No, he was a fuckwit, and 'we' collectively as Americans allowed it to happen.
We have a chance to prevent Trump from going down the same path. It's going to take at least four grueling years of stonewalling, filibustering, and opposition, but we have the opportunity to keep Bush the most murderingest blood-drippingest president we ever had.

It's gonna suck. But we have no other choice.

[stevenleser]

17. I agree with all you wrote but would trade Trump for him in a millisecond.

'W' was evil but he and his crew had the wherewithal and discipline to not bring about nuclear Armageddon.

Who knows with Trump. He is so reckless anything is possible.

[AtheistCrusader]

19. I presume Trump knows what happens to property values in a full scale nuclear war.

I also presume he'll exercise restraint.


I suspect we'll be publicly reviled at the end of his tenure, with no end to the diplomatic bridges that will need to be rebuilt, but I don't know that I would sub in one mass murderer for a potentially reckless thief of a businessman and a sexual predator.

I could be wrong. But damn it... We KNOW what Bush did. And we know what his cronies enabled...
Unforgiveable.

[HurricaneWarning]

23. I agree.

How many of the last Republican presidents have not been traitors?
The vote may be out on the first Bush because he was CIA and covered his tracks. ( As far as I know)

[Duppers]

31. Yes! Thank you.

This narcissistic nitwit has *yet* to kill people. However, his talk of using nukes is scary. He seems to have the makings of an American Kim Jong-Un.

[Jopin Klobe]

20. "I don't know how he even stays on Fox" ...

... 'cause he's the other White Bread? ...

... (political 'ballast'?) ...

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Is this the interview (video)?

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/17/donald-trump-meets-judge-andrew-napolitano-supreme-court-justice-scalia-replacement

[hedda_foil]

25. Wait til he finds out he can't fire the judges that displease him.

[Cha]

27. So did napolitano say if he believed the dnc was hacked by russia?

wonder what dumbfuck thought of his performance on foxscrews?

Yeah, I'm just going by the assumption that he's way worse than we imagine bc as bad as he is we can't know everything.. yet.

[JI7]

28. nobody should be surprised by this

[Tactical Peek]

29. The video, from a neutral site.

[pansypoo53219]

30. he isn't a plumber in the white house, he is the gardener. nope, pool guy.

[citizen blues]

33. Why wouldn't Trump use the court to get his way?

After all it's worked so well for him in his business dealings.

Bankruptcy courts got him out of debt obligations that he didn't feel like paying - not once, but multiple times.

Burying contractors in legal battles has allowed him to not pay what he had contractually agreed to.

Courts got him out of two marriages, and who knows how else he has abused the court system.