'Maybe she did and maybe she didn't: Trump claims RBG's dying wish to her granddaughter that her SCOTUS seat be filled after the election was made up by Democrats
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Via: tessylo • 6 years ago • 39 commentsBy: John Haltiwanger, Business Insider
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Politics'Maybe she did and maybe she didn't: Trump claims RBG's dying wish to her granddaughter that her SCOTUS seat be filled after the election was made up by Democrats
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Saturday.
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President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that congressional Democrats invented reports of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish.
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Ginsburg reportedly told her granddaughter that her "fervent wish" was that her Supreme Court seat remain vacant "until a new president is installed."
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"I don't know that she said that, or was that written out by Adam Schiff and Schumer and Pelosi? I would be more inclined to the second," Trump told "Fox & Friends."
President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish, reportedly dictated to her granddaughter, that her Supreme Court seat not be filled until a new president is elected "came out of the wind" and was made up by Democrats in Congress.
"I don't know that she said that, or was that written out by Adam Schiff and Schumer and Pelosi? I would be more inclined to the second," Trump said during a phone interview with "Fox & Friends."
"That came out of the wind, it sounds so beautiful. But that sounds like a Schumer deal or maybe a Pelosi or Shifty Schiff," he said, adding, "Maybe she did and maybe she didn't."
Ginsburg, a Supreme Court justice for 27 years, died on Friday at age 87. NPR reported that days before her death, she dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
"It sounds to me like it would be somebody else ... It was just too convenient," he told reporters at the White House.
"The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement on Friday night.
"President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate," McConnell added, indicating that he did not believe the impending presidential election should have any sway over the process.
This marked a massive flip-flop for McConnell, who in 2016 refused to hold a confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, on the basis that the nomination came too close to the election. Top Republican senators fell in line with McConnell's position at the time.
Garland was nominated on March 16, 2016, or 237 days before the 2016 election. Ginsburg died 46 days before the 2020 election, and Republicans are now moving to push through a Trump nominee as quickly as possible.
With a Republican president in the White House, the GOP appears suddenly comfortable moving forward with the Supreme Court confirmation process despite an election on the horizon. Republican senators are now facing allegations from Democratic colleagues that their word essentially means nothing .
"I want you to use my words against me: If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination," GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said in 2016 .
Fast-forward to 2020, and Graham wrote on Twitter that he would support Trump "in any effort to move forward" with filling Ginsburg's seat.
Graham justified his stance by saying that "the two biggest changes regarding the Senate and judicial confirmations that have occurred in the last decade have come from Democrats." He cited Sen. Harry Reid's 2013 decision to invoke the "nuclear option" — eliminating filibusters on executive appointments and most judicial nominations , excluding the Supreme Court — while accusing Democrats of conspiring to "destroy the life of Brett Kavanaugh and hold that Supreme Court seat open."
McConnell also invoked the option in 2017, doing away with filibusters on Supreme Court nominees. But Graham made no mention of this.
Trump is expected to announce a nominee later this week.
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Trump is scum.
I'm not going to call the granddaughter a lier. If she says that Justice Ginsburg said that then I believe it.
But it really doesn't matter because it's not Ginsburg's call to make. And I would just point out that in 2016 when the Senate refused (wrongly IMO, but I'm not in the Senate) to take up a vote on Garland she said the following:
maybe she did, maybe she didn't = so what.
The Supreme Court is NOT the "Make-A-Wish Foundation™
What the fuck is wrong with people who look at a story where Trump calls the dead woman's granddaughter a liar , for no good reason, and then decide that the story isnt about Trump's pathological behavior, but rather it is about the Supreme Court nomination.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Unless you want to talk about Trump lying about Ginsburg's granddaughter, dont bother commenting to me, I'm not going to read it.
For the record he didn’t say she was lying, he brought up the very real possibility that it is a lie. I wasn’t there so i don’t know. You weren’t there, you don’t know either.
So as much talk as there is of McConnell or other Republicans being hypocrites, apparently, RBG was, too. According to her granddaughter, anyway.
recent history suggests if one wants the truth?
whatever the left says... go with the exact opposite and one will be correct more often than not.
russia? no. just more bs
kavanagh hearings? no, just more bs
impeach? no, just more bs
the left has been spreading pure bs for almost 5 yrs now...
there is no reason to trust the left anymore on any subject.
she is a lunatic
We know that you don't know what Justice Ginsburg relayed to he grand daughter, Trump------------------But we do know what Clifford and McDougal relayed to you, Trump.
For her reputation’s sake, I hope,she didn’t say it. I doubt she would have If she was of sound mind.
while she’s always been too much of a politician for a supposedly impartial judge, this naked partisan plea Is way over the line. She’s reinforced the narrative that judges are motivated by politics, not the law and diminished the integrity of the court. Roberts would never embarrass the court in similar fashion, that’s for sure.
Do you have anything to say about Trump lying about the granddaughter or is that just another Tuesday like every other one?
Again, I hope she either didn’t say or it or her granddaughter put the words in her drug addled brain. No Supreme Court justice of sound mind who respects the court should say something like that.
its better for Ginsburg if trumps right.
We know for a fact it is very easy to detect when Trump lying. It's any time he speaks.
Does anyone know of a single instance that Trump has told the truth? No.
Can anyone cite anything Trump has ever said that isn't a complete and total lie? No.
Do the American people know Trump lies about everything? Yes
Do the American people trust Trump about anything? Hell no!
"He is going to lie as much as he is going to breathe."
James Carville accurately describing Donald J. Trump, 9/22/2020
I have no trouble believing that RBG had that desire , she made no bones about the subject during the entire trump presidency, and she was determined to hold on as long as she could in the hopes trump could be defeated in the election.