Beltway gossip reigns even as Trump could totally co-opt the Dems by choosing a woman or a PoC, or even Merrick Garland for his SCOTUS pick, but he’s just not that smart.
Recall that Trump played coy with the Gorsuch pick and seemingly has made his choice generally for telegenic reasons like “picture-perfect”, because Trump never reads anything more lengthy than an unrolled copy of Forbes.
Apparently that shill Haberman seems to have reversed the speculative direction from the sublime and ridiculous candidates (Judge Janine and Mike Lee) to the GOP’s consensus choices and suggested that there’s pressure from Trump’s sister.
More interesting is the onset of post-selection lobbying as the MSM busies itself with the usual TV-huckster crap to out-rate its competitors. How many “finalists” were told to travel to DC in anticipation of the choice. Will there be a rose?
Mr. Trump had been going back and forth between Judge Kavanaugh, the favorite of the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, and Judge Hardiman, whom the president’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, a former colleague of Judge Hardiman’s, has pressed him to choose.
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As the president deliberated, the conservative Judicial Crisis Network prepared for a seven-figure advertising buy in four states to support the eventual nominee. It’s a similar playbook to one the group followed last year with Judge Neil Gorsuch.
In the background, a lazy Trump trashes NATO for not paying its bills because he has no clue what it does. He’s just trying to get to the golf weekend in Scotland. If only Vlad played golf!