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Trump Has A Kavanaugh Grievance and Wants You People To Hear About It

The Trump vendetta ride against anyone and everyone he perceives to have slighted him continues apace, now featuring Brett Kavanaugh

Andrew Donaldson
3 min readJul 13, 2021
Swearing-In of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Photo by The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Trump vendetta ride against anyone and everyone he perceives to have slighted him continues apace, and today’s target of opportunity is Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Former President Donald Trump, in a book out Tuesday by Michael Wolff, says he is “very disappointed” in votes by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his own hard-won nominee, and that he “hasn’t had the courage you need to be a great justice.”

Driving the news: “There were so many others I could have appointed, and everyone wanted me to,” Trump told Wolff in an interview for the cheekily titled “Landslide.”

“Where would he be without me? I saved his life. He wouldn’t even be in a law firm. Who would have had

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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