Day 1,267: Trump has epic temper tantrum after SCOTUS rules he’s not immune from subpoenas for financial records

Thursday, in a pair of highly anticipated rulings, the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s claims that he was absolutely immune from subpoenas related to his financial records, including tax documents.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court’s two decisions, declaring, “In our system, the public has a right to every man’s evidence,” and “since the founding of the Republic, every man has included the President of the United States.”

Roberts was joined in the two cases by the court’s four liberals, plus the two justices appointed by President Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. In the grand jury case, however, the two agreed only on the bottom line; they wrote separately to say they would have made it more difficult for the grand jury to subpoena the president’s financial records.

Though the subpoenas in both cases were for similar records, the victory in the grand jury case was a clean win for the New York district attorney and will likely guarantee access to a broad range of documents that had been subpoenaed from Trump’s accountants and from banks that have loaned the Trump business empire billions of dollars.

The silver lining for Trump is that he can likely avoid producing the documents before the November election due to more legal maneuvering. However, the documents will likely have to be turned over at some point, opening Trump up to potential civil and criminal liability.

Trump was furious at the rulings, unloading on Twitter in a temper tantrum fit for a kindergartner.

He blamed a “political prosecution,” leveled false attacks against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and threw a bunch of words together that possibly made sense in his head but were gobbledegook when typed out.

Unsurprisingly, he also railed against the Supreme Court. However, he did not mention that his two handpicked appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both sided with the majority that Trump’s immunity was not absolute and his financial records were not beyond the reach of states or Congress.

Later, Trump called into Sean Hannity’s show and, missing the self-own, bragged that doctors were “very surprised” that he passed a cognitive test.

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