WH: SCOTUS Ruling Is A ‘Win’ For POTUS

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday argued the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s criminal subpoena for President Trump tax returns is a “win” for the President.


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Rage tweeting for a “big win”?

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It’s taking people a while, but in the end everybody is realizing that this was a huge win for this president and future presidents that want to avoid oversight. Presidential power has been greatly enhanced. You could not expect less from John Roberts.

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We’ll see what happens tomorrow - I’m guessing that Vance will officially re-request those documents from DB and Mazurs, or the boxes arrive tomorrow.

Not so big of a win.

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Yes, it was a 2-0 win.

He also won the House Impeachment vote 197-0.

Remember ? Pepperidge Farms remembers !

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Vance investigating campaign fiance law breaking, with actors that are from NYC, that have no agreement with the DA in Manhattan is not if fishing job Kaylie.
I would also think that now knowing how Fred Trump fiddled his taxes, and that Donald fiddle with valuations on his properties there’s enough there to take a peek at those tax returns. Vance’s subpoena also includes the kiddoes, correct?

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And his intense gratification was evident from the series of Chernobyl meltdown tantrum tweets he was firing off one after another this morning.

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I read the opinion. As an attorney, god grant that I may be spared from a career of such tremendous victories.

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Speaking of punting to after the elections, somebody is getting cold feet about being Barr’s Inquisitor…

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It’s a win in the sense that all Trump wins are wins. That is: it’s a loss.

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Morphing into Kellyanne right before our very eyes.

It’s the lying that ages you Baghdad Barbie…

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Gilding the turd.

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I got an email a bit ago from Trump entitled “Crooked Hillary.” Judging from his tone, I don’t think he is relieved.

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Oh man, now I’m gonna have nightmares…

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Not a lawyer but I’m told I get the gist of things pretty well, so let’s have a try here.

Prosecutors: We’re investigating some stuff you did. Hand over your taxes.
Trump: No.
Supremes: You have to.
Kayleigh: This is a big win for the president, because [says a bunch of words unrelated to the actual case].

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That sounds like a Tolkein name –

“We are surrounded by orcs! Fetch me Kayleigh Turdgilder!”
“Theoden King, the circle of orcs around us are actually keeping the more dangerous Nazgûl from attacking Rohan. It is a big win!”

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I once played on a winless basketball team in middle school. We had some ‘wins’ in games where we didn’t get totally blown out. The SC decisions were 7-2; they could have been 9-0. Winning!

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Intense gratification! Gotta love his volcano-like eruptions, giving lie to McImaninny’s postive spin to a big loss! Losers one and all!

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Makes sense, he told us we’d get tired of all the winning

I won’t join the chorus attacking you, but do ask that you distinguish between your own opinion and “everybody”. A lot of good lawyers flat out disagree with you, as do a number of reasonably informed lay people.

Out of curiosity, if the New York DA files charges before the end of this month, would you still consider it a win for Donnie?

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