In His Latest Turn Toward the Insane, Trump Said Obama “Owes” Him Big for Presidential Immunity

Me and Donny, we boyz now. The other day, during one of his interminable voyages through the stalactite-thick canyons of what’s left of his mind, the president paused for a moment to contemplate one of his latest obsessions—namely, that Barack Obama committed treason in investigating Russian ratfcking in the 2016 election. (No joke. I think he’s actually going to try this one.)

During this particular “episode,” however, he was asked about whether the former president would avail himself of the gift of presidential immunity that the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court gave to the current president. This seemed to spark some random neuron into brief life:

It probably helps him a lot. Probably helps him a lot. The immunity ruling. But it doesn’t help the people around him at all. … He’s done criminal acts, there’s no question about it. But he has immunity. And it probably helps him a lot. He owes me big. Obama owes me big.

Leave aside the fact that the president pretty much just explained that Chief Justice John Roberts is dancing on his string. It’s that line he dropped in the middle there, about how the ruling “doesn’t help the people around him at all.” I remember making that same point in this here shebeen at the time that misbegotten ruling was handed down: that, as nearly as I could tell from the court’s decision, the immunity only covered the president himself. Which meant that folks like Tom Homan, Stephen Miller, and all the rest of the vicious elves might be on their own if and when Beggar’s Day finally comes for this crowd.

Now, I realize that there are any number of ways the president and his allies could short-circuit consequences the way they always do. He could pardon them all preemptively. The court could find a way to make their bad ruling even worse. But, for the moment, were I an underling in the court of the Mad King, I might wonder exactly how much room there is in a one-man lifeboat.