Much of the evening’s prime-time cable news content was centered around the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the Trump appeal on presidential immunity, after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said he had none. The tone has generally been one of tooth-gnashing and wailing over the timing of the hearing date, April 22nd. Among the left wing commentariat, writer and MSNBC guest Elie Mystal vomited up the wildest take of the evening.
Watch Mystal affirm, without evidence, that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are going to rule for Trump because they want to retire during a Republican presidency, as aired on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight on Wednesday, February 28th, 2024:
ALEX WAGNER: Well, Elie, in the break leading into the segment, you rightly point out the vested interest that some of these conservatives have in a reelection of Trump as it…
