Trumpworld ‘obviously’ feeling buyer’s remorse over Amy Coney Barrett

“There’s obviously been a bit of heartburn,” said one adviser, a veteran of Trump’s first term. That person noted that Barrett’s stance on Monday followed a number of past decisions, most notably February’s ruling striking down Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff slate, in which she’s specifically opposed major components of the president’s platform.

The Daily Beast reported that Mark Kaye, a conservative podcaster and Republican candidate for the House in Florida’s 5th District, went even further on Monday by stating that “Amy Coney Barrett is the legal equivalent of Shingles.”

Following the tariff vote, the president claimed that Barrett and Justice Neil Gorsuch, whom Trump also nominated to the bench during his first term, did something that liberal justices never do: vote against their own party.

“They vote against the Republicans, and never against themselves, almost every single time, no matter how good a case we have,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time.

Trump’s problems with Barrett stretch even further back, according to a report from CNN last summer. The president had reportedly complained to confidants that Barrett, Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, the third justice appointed during his first term, don’t back him on the court’s docket.

Trump reportedly referred to Barrett as “weak” and claimed that her votes do not align with what she told him while she interviewed for the position in 2020.

However, the two advisers downplayed the impact Monday’s ruling will have on Republicans’ midterm election strategies. Trump has consistently targeted mail-in ballots as a potential source of election fraud, and he even signed an executive order this past spring that sought to build out federal lists tracking which voters are eligible to vote by mail.

Trump himself did not mention Barrett by name Monday in his response to the mail ballot ruling. Instead, the president pressured Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and other Republican holdouts in the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act.

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“The fact that ‘people’s’ votes are allowed to be counted LONG AFTER an Election is over, it is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” he wrote. “In a time when there is a powerful Communist Movement taking place in our Country, one more dangerous than World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or September 11th, all Dumocrats, and our five Republican Senate Hold Outs, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell must vote to SAVE OUR COUNTRY. There can be no more excuses!”

White House officials declined to comment on any perceived frustrations with Barrett, directing the Washington Examiner back to the president’s post on social media.