Trump’s latest post manages to prove he doesn’t understand law or sports.
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Donald Trump continued his stream of consciousness social media rant about his ongoing legal troubles this morning with a new broadside against Jack Smith and anyone else even vaguely concerned that American nuclear secrets are living in a private citizen’s toilet. It’s like the last chapter of Ulysses, but Joyce never contemplated a narrator unreliable enough to use the phrase “respected Federal Judge Aileen Cannon.”
“Coach Bobby Knight… who led the last undefeated team in College Basketball.” Pretty sure Dawn Staley did that as recently as *checks notes* THIS WEEK. For a guy who talks all the time about the importance of his “ratings,” you’d think he’d have more respect for the championship that got much better ratings than the men’s title game. It’s almost as though Trump thinks the Black woman coach doesn’t count and surely a Republican politician in 2024 doesn’t think that.
Saying Bobby Knight would “play the refs” is an understatement:
That chair was, like, the January 6 of sports. Knight was the face of bad sportsmanship to a whole generation of sports fans. It’s not particularly surprising that a narcissistic autocrat would admire Knight. It is surprising that he’d try to ram the coach into a demand that people show refs more respect.
This screed doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. He says Knight complained to refs “not to change the last call, to change the next one…” implying that the latter is an acceptable reason to bully a ref. But isn’t his argument against Smith that the special counsel is trying to intimidate Cannon into making more favorable rulings? Because that’s the definition of “the next one.” Not that Smith isn’t going to get the proverbial last call changed too, but he’s going to ask the Eleventh Circuit for that.
And people think Biden has dementia?
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