Let's be honest- this just needs its own thread. The man has never met a self-destructive strategy he didn't like.

Today:

Trump decided to tweet about the Travel Ban:

“The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.,” Mr. Trump wrote.
etc.

So first, Trump signed off on pulling the original EO while it was before the Courts and then wrote and signed the new version himself. So it's unclear why he's blaming the Justice Department for his executive actions.

Second, let's review the arguments that the Administration have been using to defend the second EO in Court:

1) It's not a travel ban. it's a travel "pause"

2) It's not the enactment of his campaign promise to ban Muslims from entering the US (specifically his promise to take the Muslim ban, reword it without saying Muslim, and then make it happen)

3) It's unrelated to the original EO- it's its own thing

4) It's unmotivated by political malice against a religious minority


Calling it a travel ban (a phrase that the Administration lawyers have explicitly avoided using) makes it harder to argue it's just a "pause", saying it's a politically correct version of what he wants- just supports the notion that this is his long-promised Muslim ban (which...obviously it is), and calling it a watered down version of the original just means this is absolutely related to the first, unconstitutional EO.

Trump is a prosecutor's dream come true. He literally goes on written, public record to contradict his own defense team and to support the arguments that have so far been successful for the prosecutors.

Kudos Donnie.