in his favor. we know there s at least one very conservative justice who one of trump s coup plotters thought would be particularly inclined to help out. i speak of this man, clarence thomas. justice thomas is probably the most right-wing member of the supreme court in living memory. he s fully committed to remaking the country and its jurisprudence in his conservative vision. the other thing you need to know about clarence thomas, and there s a lot about him, is that he has always wanted to be rich. it is part of what drove him from a childhood in abject poverty to an ivy league law school, as a recent pbs frontline documentary explained. after holy cross, clarence thomas was off to a very different world once again. yale law school. it was a chance to leave pinpoint far behind, to find his grandfather s prophesy and get positioned to make real money. he had thought well, you
remaining. he and his lawyers could try to somehow find a way to kick the case up to the supreme court, where the conservative majority would rescue him. that was one of the last desperate plans for donald trump s coup back in 2021, to get the supreme court to rule in his favor. we know there s at least one very conservative justice who one of trump s coup plotters thought would be particularly inclined to help out. i speak of this man, clarence thomas. justice thomas is probably the most right-wing member of the supreme court in living memory. he s fully committed to remaking the country and its jurisprudence in his conservative vision. the other thing you need to know about clarence thomas, and there s a lot about him, is that he has always wanted to be rich. it is part of what drove him from a childhood in abject poverty to an ivy league law school, as a recent pbs frontline documentary explained. after holy cross, clarence thomas was off to a very different world once again. yale
learning he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother, oedipus resolved never to return to corinth, according to one account. oedipus and story vows never to return in order to avoid being even near his family where he might somehow meet that fate. but through various twists, it is running from his fate that seals it. he ends up fulfilling that terrible prophesy, as you may remember from school or wherever. now, honestly i m bringing this up tonight because it s a classic tale that raises big questions would you even want to know your future if you could? if you did, would you try to change it? do we have free will? is there a lesson about not trying to outrun your own fate or karma about the futility of
tell. you can t obviously count him out completely. i think it s gotten a lot tougher than it was maybe three or four months ago for ron desantis. other campaigns are really seeing the opportunities now. tim scott s superpac just bought $40 million in ads. he has a ton of money to spend. even nikki haley he s got great favorability ratini ratings. yes. i think it s too soon to tell. i think it s notable that as you said that he s starting to kind of reset his campaign. i think the question is, is it going to be enough? right, and did they miss the window? is the issue too the campaign or is the issue the candidate? right now it looks to be the candidate. ron desantis tried so hard to avoid being the next scott walker or jeb bush that it s become a self-fulfilling prophesy. when you see him now, he s overthinking every move both on his part and the campaign as
evidence. and, my fear is that when you bring a case that really seems like you just have to get into the presidents head. and it could go either way, and you re just not sure. that you end up losing so many americans. and this was kind of my second point. this isn t going to prevent another january 6th, if anything, it s going to make it worse. because people feel as though the department of justice is, it is one-sided. that it s politicized, and when people lose that faith in their institutions, then i think it actually is very dangerous to our republic. it makes you need to basically take over the government, because if the wrong side gets the department of justice, they will use it against you. so it creates this very high stakes, very bad situation. it also creates this, as you re singing to him tonight, myself filling prophesy on that very notion. it s interesting to say of course, perception as you know can very well become king. but, how is trump, unlike the