President Trump Says He Regrets Nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett to the Supreme Court

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Credit: Erin Schaff/Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump says he now regrets putting all three of his first-term Supreme Court nominees, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, on the nation’s highest court.Trump made the stunning admission during a wide-ranging interview with TIME conducted at the White House on September 28 and published Thursday, October 1.The president was asked directly whether he regretted the nominations after calling the trio “a shell of their original selves” in a recent Truth Social post.“Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in,” Trump said, according to TIME. “They voted against me too often. I was very—I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too.”Trump then turned his fire on the rulings that set him off. He called the court’s birthright citizenship decision a disaster that turned citizenship into “a corrupt business,” and he blasted the February tariff ruling that he said will cost America hundreds of billions.“It’s unfortunate what they did—not to me, to our country,” Trump said of the citizenship case. “All they had to do was a little clause saying any money paid does not have to be paid back… would have saved $400 billion.”As The Gateway Pundit reported in June, the court struck down Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order in a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion and Amy Coney Barrett joining Roberts, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued blistering dissents. Gateway Pundit covered Thomas and Alito’s fury here.In February, the court ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not authorize Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs. Gorsuch and Barrett joined the majority. Kavanaugh dissented.Last month, after the court blocked a Postal Service rule aimed at stopping ballots from going to ineligible voters, Trump unloaded again.As The Gateway Pundit reported, only Alito and Thomas dissented. Trump wrote that “these are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” and accused certain justices of being “petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats.”In the TIME interview, Trump contrasted his own picks with the court’s three Democrat-appointed justices.“The Democrats stick like glue — those three, they virtually never vary,” Trump said, referring to Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson.“You can come up with the worst thing in the world and they’ll vote as a group. And while I don’t like it, there’s something I admire about it: There’s loyalty. So they have loyalty to Barack Hussein Obama. They have loyalty to Biden, even though Biden doesn’t even know who the hell they are. He wouldn’t know. He doesn’t even know what the Supreme Court is. And me, I gave them the chance of a lifetime, and it’s unfortunate what they did.”Asked whether he wants loyalty from his justices, Trump first said, “I do like loyalty, yeah.” Pressed, he added: “No, I don’t want loyalty. I want good decisions. The tariff decision was disastrous for the country. I want good decisions for the country.”The three justices Trump now says he regrets nominating were sold to conservatives as the backbone of a 6-3 majority. Alito and Thomas, the two he still calls legends, have repeatedly been left writing dissents while Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett supplied the votes that kept birthright citizenship intact, blew up the tariff program, and blocked mail-ballot safeguards heading into the midterms.The post President Trump Says He Regrets Nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett to the Supreme Court appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.