The excuses for Alito's luxury fishing trip—and his refusal to disclose it—range from pathetic to appalling.
So Leo first says, basically: “You’d have to be an absolute moron to think that getting wined and dined by billionaires would change any justice’s vote.” Then he’s like: “, RBG, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor did this stuff too! So if my guys are corrupt, their guys have to be corrupt. But really, none of them are corrupt because this ProPublica stuff is all just a hit job.
”It’s always projection, right? The hilarity of hearing “dark money from woke billionaires” from the guy who was connecting un-woke billionaires to justices for travel and influence. It’s amazing the level of projection. I do want you address this question of “disordered and highly unpopular” preferences. It’s very Trumpy. Would you like to interpret that for us?He’s saying Democrats and liberals are freaks, perverts, and weirdos.
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