Trump Has a New Scapegoat for His Inability to Enact Tariffs: Conservative Legal Puppeteer Leonard Leo

President mad again. President big mad again. President big mad on social media platform. President big mad at judges and at guy who recommended them. Very big mad, indeed.

Where do these initial three Judges come from? How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of “TRUMP?” What other reason could it be? I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges. I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real “sleazebag” named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions. He openly brags how he controls Judges, and even Justices of the United States Supreme Court—I hope that is not so, and don’t believe it is! In any event, Leo left The Federalist Society to do his own “thing.” I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgotten!

Okay, if you say so, Sparky.

The proximate cause for this tantrum was the court decision that torpedoed his precious sanctions, and the president apparently was not mollified by the appeals-court decision that stayed the order that was levied against the sanctions. And in all fairness I should point out that I agree with every word of the president’s assessment of Mr. Leo. I would applaud any action that loosens Leo’s grip on the judiciary—if I weren’t so worried that the president would hand the selection of judges over to Jeanine Pirro—or, worse, take on the job himself and put Alina Habba on the Supreme Court.

Let us be honest. The president handed the judges portfolio over to Leo and his minions because, one, the president was too lazy to pick the judges himself and, two, because the president knows fck all about the judicial system of the United States, except how to mine it for loopholes. And I think his resentment goes a little deeper than the tariff decision. Justice Amy Coney Barrett has wandered past the fence line a few times, and she was a Leo candidate from the jump. And, of course, the president is a petulant child who does not take no for an answer from anyone, including James Madison. There’s always that.