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AlterNet reports
A new report by the Huffington Post [September 15] reveals Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Peter Thiel he would nominate the PayPal co-founder and one-man anti-free speech crusader to the Supreme Court if elected president.
Thiel--who bankrolled a devastating blow to First Amendment rights earlier this year when he secretly paid $10 million in legal expenses to support Hulk Hogan's defamation lawsuit against Gawker Media--is apparently just the type of freedom-loving, Bill of Rights-protecting intellectual Trump hopes to stack on the Supreme Court.
A source close to Thiel told Huffington Post the GOP candidate "deeply loves Peter Thiel", which isn't terribly surprising considering Thiel served as a delegate for Trump, spoke at the candidate's convention, and pretty much became a walking how-to guide for Trump's promise to "open up libel laws". According to the source, Trump has "made it clear he will nominate" Thiel.
"It's not clear whether Trump has indeed offered to nominate Thiel--only that Thiel has said Trump would nominate him and that Trump's team has discussed Thiel as a possible nominee", the Huffington Post article reads. "Both sources requested anonymity, given that Trump and Thiel have each demonstrated a willingness to seek revenge against parties they feel have wronged them."
Both Thiel's spokesperson and Trump's press secretary denied Trump's indication, and Thiel--who sits on Facebook's board and serves as the chairman of the software company Palantir--told the Huffington Post he's not interested in the job.
We've previously referenced Thiel in contexts from "Mean People" to vampirism.
See also:
Trump camp denies report that he would consider Peter Thiel for Supreme Court
Peter Thiel denies he's talking to Donald Trump about Supreme Court job.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday September 17 2016, @09:32AM
I hear Americans love paying taxes for things that don't presently directly affect them.
They do actually, just look at how much they love military spending. The anti-tax and anti-government types generally only get enraged if they think tax dollars are somehow going to a minority person that is not currently working. Never mind that they might need that help someday themselves, it is set in their minds their taxes will disappear if they eliminate social services.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 17 2016, @11:15AM
What an amazing strawman! Do you build straw structures as well?
Maybe it's the fact that the military industrial complex is the most powerful group of businesses in the country and there's nothing anyone can do about it because the moment it even looks like the gravy train is going to be disrupted people start mysteriously disappearing? Christ.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @09:01AM
Maybe it's the fact that the military industrial complex is the most powerful group of businesses in the country and there's nothing anyone can do about it because the moment it even looks like the gravy train is going to be disrupted people start mysteriously disappearing? Christ.
Who are all these people who have been disappeared? Do you have some names? Maybe the military industrial complex has done a great job of marketing, but I defy you to visit a web site discussing tax cuts and find people clamoring to cut military spending. Almost every Republican in Congress and those who ran for the presidency all claim they want to increase military spending and cut taxes.