Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday she's glad President Donald Trump "has the Supreme Court" because it will help the nation move forward when the court rebukes his dispute of the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“I never thought I would say this, I’m actually glad at this moment that Trump has the Supreme Court,” McCaskill, now an analyst for MSNBC, commented on "Morning Joe." "It is clearly a Republican court right now, conservative court, and if in fact, institutions hold and if Trump tries to run this up under some bogus legal claim that somehow we shouldn’t count votes, I’m confident that he’ll get rebuked by his court and that will help us move forward.”
She acknowledged that it will "still be tough" as the nation is "very divided" and because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will probably retain control of the Senate.
Show co-host Mike Brzezinski told McCaskill she had a good point, "The Supreme Court that appears to be his court, they’re going to have to work within the realm of the law, and if they rebuke President Trump and his efforts, it will be a lot more, let’s say, credible to Trump’s supporters and to the division that is in America than had it been a court that perhaps had members that Trump did not pick.”
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