MADISON, Wis. — Brad Schimel has long been focused on right-wing partisan politics and pushing his own extreme agenda onto our state. Now, there’s no doubt that he’s Donald Trump’s guy in Wisconsin and will prioritize Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda over being fair and impartial on the Court.
Even going all the way back to 2016, “as the state’s top Republicans spoke at the event, they distanced themselves from Mr. Trump […] Just one Republican took the stage, framed by haystacks and pumpkins, and came to Mr. Trump’s defense: Brad Schimel, then the state’s attorney general and now a Waukesha County judge who is running in a high-profile, expensive race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
The New York Times reported today:
“Judge Schimel has echoed Mr. Trump’s lies about elections, attended his campaign rallies and walked door to door to encourage voters to back him in the April 1 election. Last fall, Judge Schimel wore a Trump-as-garbage-man costume while shaking what appeared to be a pair of maracas and playing bass guitar at a Halloween party, an episode captured on a video obtained by The New York Times. And this month, he told supporters that he wanted to help build “a support network” around Mr. Trump.”
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“Judge Schimel, whose campaign declined to comment for this article, is clearly fishing for an endorsement from Mr. Trump that could help turn out Wisconsin’s conservative voters. He recently told supporters at a private event, a recording of which was obtained by The Times, that he had formally asked for the president to hold a campaign event in Wisconsin this month. He also said in a television interview that he would welcome Mr. Trump’s backing.”
Schimel is so much of a Trump guy, he even dressed up as Trump for Halloween:
See excerpts below.
The New York Times: The Trump Loyalist Aiming to Swing Wisconsin Back to the Right
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Judge Schimel’s affection for Mr. Trump has not dissipated since 2016. During the 2020 presidential campaign, he praised Mr. Trump at a campaign rally, despite Wisconsin judicial ethics rules that prohibit judges from participating in partisan political activity.
And for years, Judge Schimel has repeated some of Mr. Trump’s talking points about Wisconsin elections.
During an April 2018 interview with one of the state’s leading conservative talk-radio hosts, Judge Schimel said it was not clear that Mr. Trump, who carried the state in 2016 by fewer than 23,000 votes, or Senator Johnson, who won by about 99,000 votes that year, would have prevailed had the state’s voter identification law not been in place.
In January, he said he did not object to Mr. Trump’s pardons of supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Then there was the Halloween party last year.
In the final week before the election, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage.” Mr. Trump responded by dressing up in a sanitation worker’s reflective vest and driving a garbage truck.
Two days later, when Judge Schimel’s cover band, 4 on The Floor, played a Halloween gig at Michael’s Funky Monkey bar in Waukesha, he wore a reflective vest just like Mr. Trump’s and rocked out while playing the Rolling Stones classic “Sympathy for the Devil.”
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