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WELKER: Do you trust someone who isn't allowed to run his business to run the country?

TURNER: Actually I don't trust this court decision.

WELKER: Trump's been repeatedly fined for his business practices

TURNER: Those issues were taken into consideration when he was elected pic.twitter.com/L32IrlPzrX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 18, 2024

It was an 11 week trial.

The summary judgment has been reviewed and upheld.

If voters knew about the business fines in 2016, they must have been legitimate fines. Because you don’t argue they shouldn’t have factored them in.

Which can only mean the “new fines” are legitimate, too. Or not “news,” or important to the 2024 election, because “those issues” have already been “taken into consideration.” Right?

And if you don’t trust the court decision, you don’t trust the duly constituted legal system. Which makes you an anarchist, doesn’t it? I trust the legitimacy of the judicial system, even if the Roberts Court makes me doubt that trust. Actually it just makes me doubt their collective wisdom and intelligence; but I accept the legitimacy of their decisions, even as I disagree with some of them.

Alito and Thomas don’t make me want to burn the whole system down, or declare that a legitimate practice of a political candidate or office holder.

These people are just throwing shit against the wall at this point. And governance be damned; the whole point of holding office seems to be showing you can throw the most shit.