It’s a bad day for Trumpie. And maybe the worst part is that he was stabbed in the back by his boys Gorsuch and Kavanaugh:
He knows he has a problem. I doubt we’ll see what it is before the election, unfortunately. But Trump knows now that even if he wins re-election he is not protected and that’s something:
President Donald Trump assailed a pair of Supreme Court rulings on Thursday pertaining to his personal financial records in a Twitter rant that called the decisions “not fair.”
In a rambling series of tweets, Trump attacked Democrats and his predecessor former President Barack Obama, arguing he is being unfairly targeted while others don’t face scrutiny.
“This is all a political prosecution” Trump tweeted. “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,'” he added. “BUT NOT ME!”
The tweets came after the Supreme Court ruled in a pair of 7-2 decisions — in which the majority was joined by Trump-appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — that the president is not immune from the Manhattan District Attorney’s efforts to obtain his taxes as part of an investigation into hush payments to two women. The court also left open the potential for House Democrats to obtain his financial records from the Trump Organization’s accounting firm and two banks.
Trump waged a coast-to-coast legal battle to keep his tax information private in the months leading up to Thursday’s Supreme Court rulings. While presidential candidates have traditionally released his or her tax returns over the past few decades, it is not required by law, and though he said he would make public the information during his 2016 run, Trump ultimately became the first major-party nominee in four decades to not do so.Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.
The cases will now return to lower courts and the rulings do not mean the president’s tax information will become public imminently. It’s unlikely the cases will be settled before Election Day this coming November.
The president, however, unloaded on the high court in a subsequent tweetstorm.
Complaining that Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden are not under investigation while he has been under investigations for years, Trump said the Supreme Court “gives a delay ruling that they would never have given for another President.”
“This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT,” he added.
In the majority ruling on Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s efforts to obtain the documents, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that in the U.S. judicial system, “the public has a right to every man’s evidence.”
“Two hundred years ago, a great jurist of our Court established that no citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding,” he said. “We reaffirm that principle today.”
Trump has cited ongoing audits — which take place annually as president — as reason to keep the documents secret.
“We are pleased that in the decisions issued today, the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked both Congress and New York prosecutors from obtaining the president’s financial records,” Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement. “We will now proceed to raise additional Constitutional and legal issues in the lower courts.”
Vance called the ruling “a tremendous victory for our nation’s system of justice and its founding principle that no one – not even a president – is above the law.”
“Our investigation, which was delayed for almost a year by this lawsuit, will resume, guided as always by the grand jury’s solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts, wherever they may lead,” he added.
Democrats offered quick responses claiming victory.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, “A careful reading of the Supreme Court rulings related to the president’s financial records is not good news for President Trump.”
“The Court has reaffirmed the Congress’s authority to conduct oversight on behalf of the American people, as it asks for further information from the Congress,” she said. “Congress’s constitutional responsibility to uncover the truth continues, specifically related to the president’s Russia connection that he is hiding.”
“Specifically related to the president’s Russia connection …” is a zinger from Pelosi. No wonder Trump had a meldown.
More tantrum:
After he tweeted out those primal tweets he sat down in the corner and had himself a good old-fashioned cry.
Seriously, what adult except for Trump would write those things?
And again, why would anyone want a blubbering , whining brat like that to be their leader?