Renowned journalist Carl Bernstein on Monday slammed “evil” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for demanding respect for US government institutions while Thomas’s own wife worked to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
After protests erupted over news that the High Court was set to halt the historic abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade, Thomas rebuked Americans for being incompetent to “live with them” and complained that the faith in America Lack of institutions “are detrimental to a free society.” He said the court would not be “intimidated” by the public.
“What Ginny Thomas, the wife of a Supreme Court judge, did is completely unheard of in the history of the United States,” Bernstein told hosts Brianna Keeler and John Avalon.
“Justice Thomas, talking about [the] The legitimacy of the institutions—either the White House or the courts themselves—must dissociate himself, which he refused to do, from any matter connected with the President of the United States and the election” because of his wife’s role, Bernstein said. said.
Bernstein said, “There is a real failure of institutions, especially in the Supreme Court, by a wicked justice who won’t say, ‘I’m going to step aside. “Let’s look at what Ginny Thomas did … and we have the lessons of what she was saying. This is crazy stuff … encouraging the President of the United States to do a coup, in fact.”
In an even more chilling observation, Bernstein called former President Donald Trump the country’s “first traitorous president … who conducted a coup to remain in office and did not allow the transfer of power to a duly elected president.”
Watch the full interview below.
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