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There’s
a
war
in
Iran
upending
the
global
energy
market,
China
is
moving
forces
to
encircle
Taiwan,
and
the
entire
Department
of
Homeland
Security
—
including
TSA,
FEMA,
and
the
Coast
Guard
—
is
in
shutdown
as
Republicans
continue
to
kill
stop-gap
funding
bills
unless
they
include
massive
spending
for
ICE.
With
so
much
on
his
agenda,
the
president
—
who
definitely
is
not
deep
in
the
throes
of
mental
decline
—
hammered
out
nearly
1,000
words’
worth
of
a
Truth
Social
rant
about
how
much
he
hates
the
Supreme
Court.
At
a
quarter
to
11
at
night
on
a
Sunday.
“The
decision
that
mattered
most
to
me
was
TARIFFS!”
he
began,
seemingly
forgetting
that
the
decision
that
actually
mattered
most
to
him
was
when
Chief
Justice
Roberts
invented
a
new
double
secret
immunity
that
allowed
Trump
to
bypass
all
the
federal
criminal
laws
he’d
been
indicted
for
breaching.
After
that
decision
cleared
Trump’s
path
back
to
office,
he
even
told
the
Chief
Justice,
“Thank
you
again.
Thank
you
again.
Won’t
forget
it.”
[Narrator
voice]: He
forgot
it.
“The
Court
knew
where
I
stood,
how
badly
I
wanted
this
Victory
for
our
Country,
and
instead
decided
to,
potentially,
give
away
Trillions
of
Dollars
to
Countries
and
Companies
who
have
been
taking
advantage
of
the
United
States
for
decades,”
Trump
continued,
allowing
that
adverb
to
strain
under
some
crushing
weight.
I
want
to
thank
Justices
Alito,
Thomas,
and
Kavanaugh
for
their
Wisdom
and
Courage
pertaining
to
the
TARIFF
case,
and
for
understanding,
in
addition
to
the
Law,
that
our
“Unfriendly
Competitors”
should
not
be
reimbursed
and
rewarded
for
the
decades
of
Damage
they
have
caused
THE
UNITED
STATES
OF
AMERICA.
I
will
fight
hard
to
make
sure
that
this
does
not
happen!
The
Democrats
on
the
Court
always
“stick
together,”
no
matter
how
strong
a
case
is
put
before
them
—
There
is
rarely
even
a
minor
“waver.”
But
Republicans
do
not
do
this.
They
openly
disrespect
the
Presidents
who
nominate
them
to
the
highest
position
in
the
Land,
a
Justice
of
the
United
States
Supreme
Court,
and
go
out
of
their
way,
with
bad
and
wrongful
rulings
and
intentions,
to
prove
how
“honest,”
“independent,”
and
“legitimate”
they
are.
In
normal
times,
suggesting
that
justices
should
respect
the
presidents
who
nominate
them
over
honesty,
independence,
and
legitimacy
would
be
the
biggest
political
story
going
and
trigger
bipartisan
calls
for
impeachment.
In
2026,
it
doesn’t
crack
the
top
page
outside
of
the
nation’s
finest
legal
news
sources.
Our
Country
was
unnecessarily
RANSACKED
by
the
United
States
Supreme
Court,
which
has
become
little
more
than
a
weaponized
and
unjust
Political
Organization.
The
sad
thing
is,
they
will
only
get
worse!
They
wouldn’t
even
call
out
The
Rigged
Presidential
Election
of
2020,
because
they
said
that
I,
as
President
of
the
United
States,
did
not
have
“standing”
to
challenge
it,
and
now,
with
time,
it
has
been
conclusively
proven
to
be
stolen
Again
with
the
dubious
adverbial
deployment.
This
rant
proved
too
long
for
even
Truth
Social’s
indulgence
and
Trump
followed
up
with
another
one:
The
Courts
treat
Republicans,
and
me,
so
unfairly,
always
seeming
to
protect
those
who
should
not
be
protected.
They
are
highly
politicized.
Cases
don’t
matter,
the
Judge
does!
As
an
example,
how
is
this
absolutely
terrible
Federal
Reserve
Chairman,
Jerome
“Too
Late”
Powell,
not
even
allowed
to
be
investigated
for
the
horrible
job
he
does?
How
is
he
allowed
to
be
Billions
of
Dollars
over
budget,
and
years
behind
schedule,
on
the
simple
renovation
of
the
small
Federal
Reserve
Complex
in
Washington,
D.C.,
where
he
created
an
absolute
disaster
Of
note,
the
Federal
Reserve
itself
wanted
a
more
modest
and
cheaper
renovation.
But
appointees
of
the
first
Trump
administration
rejected
the
modern
glass
and
steel
design
and
demanded
the
more
garish
luxury
marble
plan
that’s
costing
so
much
money.
But
that’s
not
stopping
Trump
and
his
embattled
U.S.
Attorney
for
D.C.,
Jeanine
Pirro,
to
pursue
an
investigation
hoping
to
convince
Powell
to
resign.
Pirro
is
trying
to
spin
Judge
Boasberg’s
decision
shutting
down
these
subpoenas
as
breach
of
the
separation
of
powers,
though
all
he
actually
ruled
was
that
the
Fed
had
more
than
proven
that
this
was
all
a
baseless
abuse
of
the
grand
jury
process.
In
reaching
his
conclusion,
Judge
Boasberg
cited,
you
know,
Trump’s
incessant
social
media
posting
where
the
president
laid
out
his
bad
faith
motives.
As
Judge
Boasberg
wrote,
“The
President
spent
years
essentially
asking
if
no
one
will
rid
him
of
this
troublesome
Fed
Chair.”
He
then
did
Henry
II
one
better
and
“suggested
a
specific
line
of
investigation
into
him,
which
had
been
proposed
by
a
political
appointee
with
no
role
in
law
enforcement,
who
hinted
that
it
could
be
a
way
to
remove
Powell.
The
President’s
appointed
prosecutor
promptly
complied.”
You’d
think
that
might
convince
Trump
to
ease
off
the
posts.
Or
at
least
get
his
staffers
to
put
parental
controls
on
his
socials.
I
strongly
criticized
Jerome
“Too
Late”
for
his
horrible
performance
throughout
his
tenure,
which
is
either
gross
incompetence,
total
dishonesty,
or
both,
and,
in
return
for
this
well
justified
criticism,
get
viciously
and
wrongfully
blamed
by,
as
usual,
a
Wacky,
Nasty,
Crooked,
and
totally
Out
of
Control
Judge,
named
James
Boasberg,
a
man
who
suffers
from
the
highest
level
of
Trump
Derangement
Syndrome
(TDS),
and
has
been
“after”
my
people,
and
me,
for
years.
TDS
will
not
show
up
again
in
the
post.
That’s
some
rookie
lawyer
nonsense.
Much
like
“prosecutor”
Deranged
Jack
Smith,
and
many
others,
Boasberg
is
a
disgrace,
as
was
his
predecessor,
to
our
Legal
Process,
and
our
Highly
Politicized
Court
System,
which
was
just
witnessed
firsthand
by
the
unfortunate
and
unwarranted
TARIFF
decision,
recently
handed
down
by
the
United
States
Supreme
Court,
which
was
a
GIFT
to
Countries
and
Companies
who
have
been
“ripping
off
the
United
States
of
America,”
for
decades,
at
levels
never
seen
before.
Poor
Judge
Howell
just
over
here
minding
her
business
and
got
dragged
into
this
somehow.
It’s
too
easy
to
brush
off
these
posts
as
par
for
the
president’s
combative
brand
of
sundowning,
but
it
shouldn’t
be
normalized.
He’s
doubling
down
on
the
“meddlesome
priest”
logic
that
Judge
Boasberg
just
wrote
about.
At
the
very
least
he’s
laying
the
groundwork
for
more
aggressive
and
explicit
refusals
of
court
orders.
At
worst,
this
is
emboldening
his
troglodyte
militia
to
step
up
the
violent
threats
against
judges.
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