Team Trump Is Ready to Lose the Supreme Court Immunity Case. They're Celebrating

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Team Trump Is Ready to Lose the Supreme Court Immunity Case. They're Celebrating
rollingstone.com

Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won.

Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president’s lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity. Bringing the case before the court — after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., shut down their arguments on executive power — was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump’s criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall. The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated.

“We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now.

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Until the Supreme Court actually sides with his arguments.

If that does happen Biden should just have him jailed and removed from every ballot in the country, then unilaterally impeach every member of the Supreme Court who assented. Biden’s the president he can do what he wants, he has immunity

This would feel very satisfying for the moment it took me to realise that Biden had become everything I hate about Trump.

He'd have to do so much more to be everything I hate about Trump

Yeah. It would be like the ring of power, it needs to be cast into the fires of mount doom.