Thought you’d heard all of the absurd bullshit imaginable when it comes to disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump? Before you answer, consider what his attorneys argued Monday in an attempt to get their client reinstated on Twitter.
According to the Donald’s lawyers, the failed ex-president is a lot like Galileo, HuffPost reports:
Trump compared himself to Abraham Lincoln when he was president, so perhaps his legal team didn’t think it was a stretch to compare him to Galileo, the so-called “father of modern science” who was persecuted by the Catholic Church in the 17th century for asserting that the Earth revolved around the sun.
“Most people once believed these to be crackpot ideas; many still do. But crackpot ideas sometimes turn out to be true. The earth does revolve around the sun, and it was Hunter Biden, not Russian disinformation agents, who dropped off a laptop full of incriminating evidence at a repair shop in Delaware,” Trump’s lawyers wrote, per Politico. “Galileo spent his remaining days under house arrest for spreading heretical ideas, and thousands of dissidents today are arrested or killed by despotic governments eager to suppress ideas they disapprove of. But this is not the American way.”
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said he would reinstate Trump to the social media platform, but has yet to do so, probably because he’s too busy trying to make sure his $44 billion vanity purchase doesn’t go down the drain financially.
As you’d expect, social media had some thoughts on Trump being placed in the same exalted company as Galileo.
