As part of its ongoing pretensions to anti-elitism, the White House has sought to portray that of Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, as a regular guy who any member of the MAGA nation would totally open a cold with, and the conservatives will all out to soften his image. “Even though he has Ivy League credentials and fancy work, he’s kind of a regular, all-American guy,” Helgi Walker, a Washington litigator who worked with Kavanaugh under George W. Bush, Recount The Washington Post. “He likes to play basketball and drink beer. . . . It’s very refreshing in a city like Washington. If you hadn’t looked at his criminal record, you would never know that Kavanaugh is a fierce advocate of commercial interests and financial deregulation. In fact, you might not even know he’s a judge! Tim Higgins, a bartender at the Chevy Chase Lounge, seen Kavanaugh as “a middle-aged guy named Brett who likes to pick up a Budweiser and a burger after coaching his daughters’ basketball games”. Until his appointment, he told the To post, “I never knew Brett was a lawyer.” Indeed, Kavanaugh is such an “American guy” that he’s racked up six figures in credit card debt on baseball tickets over the past decade, sometimes listing debts that could have exceeded his assets. If that’s not MAGA, we don’t know what is!
According to financial information provided by the White House, the future Supreme Court justice reported have between $60,000 and $200,000 in accumulated debt on three credit cards and one loan. The cards held between $15,000 and $50,000 in debt each, and his Thrift Savings Plan loan was between $15,000 and $50,000. In a statement, White House spokesman Raj Shah say it To post that Kavanaugh acquired the debt by buying Washington Nationals season tickets and playoff tickets for himself and a “handful” of his friends, in addition to home renovations. While the numbers might represent a drop in the bucket for the wealthiest members of the Supreme Court, some of whom are multi-millionaires, that was not the case for Kavanaugh. As a federal circuit court judge, he earned about $220,000 a year, plus $27,000 teaching at Harvard Law School last year, while his wife, who reported no income for the four years prior to 2015, earned $66,000 a year as city manager of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Luckily, we don’t have to worry about Brett’s financial situation or spending habits because, rather fortuitously, “debts and the credit card loan either paid off or fell below reporting requirements in 2017. , according to the filings, which do not require details of the nature or source of those payments.So unless it turns out he killed and buried a guy under the Nationals dugout , it’s virtually guaranteed to be confirmed, and even then the Republicans would likely find a way to push it through.
