CNN reports that "Trump has grown increasingly dissatisfied with the way Brett Kavanaugh has defended himself." He's "become increasingly agitated and animated," he believes the nominee appeared "wooden" in his "This Is My Life" Fox News interview Monday night, and that he "should have been more aggressive" — all of which "has led the President to believe that he must personally take charge of defending his embattled nominee."
Here, though, is the more revelatory — or should I say familiar? — part of the CNN story:
"Trump addressed the matter again Wednesday, minutes before he chaired the Security Council meeting, remarking he would have pushed Kavanaugh's nomination through the Senate two weeks ago if he were responsible for the proceedings. 'They could have pushed it through two weeks ago and we wouldn't be talking about this right now, which is what I would have preferred,' said Trump."
I've no doubt Trump would have done just that: He would have rammed through Kavanaugh's confirmation — and then been left with a wounded, crippled, forever-stained Supreme Court nominee, once the current allegations came to light, which they most assuredly would have.
That is Trump in brief: reckless, rash, foolhardy, imprudent, careless — and stupid. Even knowing (as of yesterday) what his opponents' next move would have been — the exposition of multiple sexual-assault allegations — Trump still insisted he would have executed a hurried confirmation, and thereby put his and Kavanaugh's neck in a noose.
The severely limited cognition of this clown is absolutely unfathomable.