Let's check in with Squirrel-Hair - today's edition

There doesn't seem to be much intellectual curiosity or depth involved in his relationship with his sister - but then again, it's a safe bet that that's typical.

Trump: Can you imagine my sister? By the way, my sister was appointed by Ronald Reagan. Elevated, elevated, I believe, in the Clinton administration, but she was appointed, originally appointed by Ronald Reagan.

Reporter: Let me ask you a different question, if families are off limits [inaudible]

Trump: I think first of all, my sister has nothing to do with me! (Ed note – a rich assertion for someone who has spent the last six straight months bashing Jeb Bush over things George W. Bush did). I mean, she’s a federal judge at a high, high level, court of appeals, and she was appointed by Ronald Reagan, initially appointed by Ronald Reagan, a highly brilliant woman, known as a great, you know, very brilliant judge, I don’t even know what her views are, and I don’t think she’d want to tell me. I think she’s a very inter… she doesn’t… I remember one of your cohorts wanted to do a great story about her, I said listen, they want to do a great story about you, she said no.. I think frankly, she’s a federal judge, highly respected at every level, by both sides, by everybody, and I don’t know that that’s, I mean, certainly what he said about her is horrible, they made her sound just horrible. She may have views on certain things, I’ve never asked her views, I don’t want to ask her her views, I don’t think it’s appropriate. She is a solid person and a great intellect and she’s acknowledged as being so on the court.

Well, let me help Donald Trump, because he doesn’t have to ask his sister her views. They’re a matter of public record. She wrote a decision, that has been covered extensively, which took a radically pro-abortion position. And she did not say that she was merely following the law as she understood it, she castigated New Jersey’s attempt to outlaw partial-birth abortion (which was supported by about 80% of the American public and ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court) as a “desperate attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade).

Let me also note for Donald Trump that federal judges who were initially appointed by Ronald Reagan, and subsequently elevated to the court of appeals by Bill Clinton, are what Ronald Reagan would refer to as “mistakes.”

Now look, Donald Trump did not say that his sister would make a great Supreme Court justice during idle conversation before he started running for office. This was not the result of family pride in someone who was an appellate Federal judge. He said this over two full months after he began running for President, when he was in full campaign mode.

S-H is once again in full take-my-ball-and-go-home mode:

2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump tells reporters here that his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee is now void because the Republican National Committee, along with local and state GOP factions, is stacking debate audiences with donor class officials.“The RNC is in default,” Trump said at the press conference. “Just so you understand, the RNC is in default. When somebody is in default, that means the other side can do what they have to do. The RNC is in default.”
Trump’s point is that the RNC has defaulted—through its actions against his candidacy—on the pledge he signed earlier in the cycle, and his point is that because they have defaulted he can do whatever he wants. Trump is signaling he may not support the eventual GOP nominee in 2016 if that nominee is not him.

The significance of this development can’t be understated. The entire GOP presidential primary election has focused on this question, which was launched to the center of discussion by the first question at the first GOP debate in Cleveland, Ohio, back in August 2015. That question, by Fox News’ Bret Baier, asked all the candidates to raise their hands if they would on stage support the eventual GOP nominee. Trump was the only who didn’t raise his hand. That, and several other unseemly questions from Fox’s Megyn Kelly about Trump and women, catapulted into public view a then-private war between Trump and Fox that has lasted publicly to this day. 

And for a tough guy, he's pretty touchy about hard-hitting ads by the Ted campaign. Says he'll sue Ted if the latter doesn't take down "false" ads about his positions. The linked story links to the S-H website's rather lame attempt at a refutation of what he perceives the falsehoods to be.

Imparts entirely new levels of meaning to the term "jackass."