God damn. He out does his stupidity every day.
Of course Donald’s own grandfather changed the family name (from Drumpf).
WEAKNESS!
(my emphasis in the quote)
ETA: apparently there is some debate over which of Trump’s family actually showed that WEAKNESS (by changing the name):
“In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS. The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election, but is important for the children & families. May cut off funding if not open!”
I guess the fact that the number of cases in those countries is going down is irrelevant.
Another trump tweet in which he manages to pack so much wrong into so few characters:
For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven’t done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better. We have tested 40,000,000 people. If we did 20,000,000 instead, Cases would be half, etc. NOT REPORTED!
- Uhhh, the 1/100 time? I don’t think he understands fractions.
- AGAIN with the “we have more cases because we test more” utterly ridiculous claim.
- He acts exasperated that he needs to keep explaining we have more cases because we test so much and PEOPLE JUST DON’T GET IT.
- Our testing is NOT much bigger and better, it’s actually lower per capita than other countries who’ve managed to control their Covid outbreaks.
Big business man should have said “for the .01 time…” God, he’s such a utterly clueless fucking moron.
Yes, you idiot, we understand what you are trying to say. And for the 1000th time you are completely off track and have know idea how this works.
Hey! Big numbers are hard! Also tiny numbers. In fact, all numbers should be outlawed when they make me look bad.
“The banks gave me money, why do they want it back?”
There are going to be some Presidential tweets pretty soon, because it looks like Trump is going to have to hand over his records to New York. From the Supreme Court:
Another 5-4 decision: Roberts writing for himself and the liberals in the majority, with the other four conservatives in dissent. No word yet on the Congressional subpoenas.
Sorry, wrong. It was 7-2. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch wrote a concurrence.
Germany has 35 cases per million people. The US has 1,100. Relevant? You be the judge. 
hahahahahhah. Trump is going to go crazy (no already crazy)
Apparently SCOTUS ruled that trump is not immune because he’s president, but the tax records don’t get released yet-- they’re throwing it back to the lower court where trump’s attorneys can argue again that the records should be blocked, but they have to argue on the same merits as if he’s any other American citizen. So, kind of a split decision?
No, there are two cases here.
It was the Congressional subpoenas case that was Vacated and Remanded, with instructions to the lower courts to look at it again.
The New York case didn’t do that.
Sorry, I’m wrong.
There are two cases, and they both go back to the lower courts. The New York case was Affirmed and Remanded, while the Congressional subpoenas case was Vacated and Remanded. But both go back, meaning that Trump might not have to release any records before the election.
So SCOTUS takes a safe middle ground, then.
I guess it is because I am not a lawyer, but that does seem very logical. Why would anyone think anything else?
I don’t understand it completely either, but bottom line I think one of three things could have happened:
- SCOTUS rules trump is immune to subpoena of his tax records
- SCOTUS rules trump is not immune, but it has to go back to the lower courts to re-argue
- SCOTUS rules the records need to be released immediately.
…and SCOTUS took the middle ground. Is that right? Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
That’s sort of right, but there’s a lot of play here, especially in your second point, depending on the particulars of the case.
One case deals with separation of powers issues, because it’s Congress asking for his records. The other case deals with whether the Constitution allows a state criminal subpoena to be issued to a sitting president.
In the first case, the Supreme Court basically told the lower court to go back and spend more time and effort dealing with the separation of powers issues, because the lower court didn’t do a good enough job on that the first time around.
In the second case, the Supreme Court told the lower court to go back and do it again, but this time the President, in arguing that he shouldn’t have to hand over his records, gets “the same protections available to every other citizen, including the right to challenge the subpoena on any grounds permitted by state law, which usually include bad faith and undue burden or breadth.” He can also “challenge the subpoena as an attempt to influence the performance of his official duties, in violation of the Supremacy Clause. And he can argue that compliance with a particular subpoena would impede his constitutional duties.” But he doesn’t just get to say, “I’m the P:resident, so you can’t even ask.”
The third option probably wasn’t an option. The President argued in the lower courts that he was immune. The lower courts said he wasn’t. That was the issue appealed, and that was the issue before the Supreme Court. Since he’s not immune as President, the lower courts still need to evaluate the subpoenas as they would in any other case. They never got that far before the appeal. If they had, then the Supreme Court could have said there’s nothing more to do.
[caveat, I haven’t read the decisions, but that’s what I’m getting from reports]
Thanks for the explanations! I’m still a little confused because the CNN headline is “trump wins battle on financial records for now” seemingly implying that the decision could have gone worse for trump. Which is why I thought the court could have ruled on immediate release of the records. If the decision resuilts in blocking his records from being released until after the election, that is basically a win for trump.
The tweet storm has begun
PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!
The Supreme Court sends case back to Lower Court, arguments to continue. This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration!
Courts in the past have given “broad deference”. BUT NOT ME!
We have a totally corrupt previous Administration, including a President and Vice President who spied on my campaign, AND GOT CAUGHT…and nothing happens to them. This crime was taking place even before my election, everyone knows it, and yet all are frozen stiff with fear…
…No Republican Senate Judiciary response, NO “JUSTICE”, NO FBI, NO NOTHING. Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing. A 3 year, $45,000,000 Mueller HOAX, failed - investigated everything…
…Won all against the Federal Government and the Democrats send everything to politically corrupt New York, which is falling apart with everyone leaving, to give it a second, third and fourth try. Now the Supreme Court gives a delay ruling that they would never have given…
…for another President. This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. We catch the other side SPYING on my campaign, the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS. But despite this, I have done more than any President in history in first 3 1/2 years!
POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!
Is it just me or does this seem to be even more incoherent than usual. I can practically feel the flecks of spittle coming out of the computer screen as I read it.
He seems awfully upset for someones whose tax returns show no evidence of misconduct, and were only held back from the public because they were under audit