For those of us who have never once seen Donald Trump do anything generous, Trump himself assures us we’re wrong. In fact, Trump’s selflessness helped save a life. Unfortunately, Trump didn’t actually save a life so much as try to save his own ass. And, to the extent that he rescued someone, he rescued someone who is likely a lot like Trump.

One week ago, we reported on the fact that Trump was bragging around his group that he saved Justice Kavanaugh, that Kavanaugh wouldn’t have anything without him. (As if that’s a laudable act.)

Now we’re hearing that he’s going even further in his interpretation that he saved Kav, from our friends over at Axios:

There were so many others I could have appointed, and everyone wanted me to,” Trump told Wolff in an interview for the cheekily titled “Landslide.”

“Where would he be without me? I saved his life. He wouldn’t even be in a law firm. Who would have had him? Nobody. Totally disgraced. Only I saved him.”

There is no doubt Kavanaugh would’ve been diminished, and that’s precisely why 99% of the world wouldn’t be bragging about staying with him. And it gets worse:

“I had plenty of time to pick somebody else,” Trump continued. “I went through that thing and fought like hell for Kavanaugh — and I saved his life, and I saved his career. At great expense to myself … okay? I fought for that guy and kept him.”

But Axios says this is part of a much larger pattern.

Trump feels betrayed by all three justices he put on the court, including Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, but “reserved particular bile for Kavanaugh.”

“Practically every senator called me … and said, ‘Cut him loose, sir, cut him loose. He’s killing us, Kavanaugh.’ … I said, ‘I can’t do that.'”

Right now, Trump hates everyone, literally everyone but himself – he’s that angry, but he saves a little extra for a certain type:

After the election, as Axios’ Jonathan Swan reported in his “Off the Rails” series, Trump saved his worst venom for people who he believed owed him because he got them their jobs.

The White House was, at its very roots, an organized crime operation… Run by a Don. And a person better damn well be loyal to the Don, even made men live dangerous lives.

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