none of this matters. he wants a republican to win and a democrat to lose. he wrote the immunity opinion because trump is currently the republican nominee and he wants him to be the next president. you don't have to overthink this. roberts certainly didn't.
Even so, any self-reflection on giving a free pass to an unstable monster who thinks he got fucked by you 4 years ago might lead one to go "maybe I shouldn't."
And this is true of authoritarians generally: very few of them come out and say, 'we are horrible and our goal is to make people suffer'. Instead they say self-aggrandizing stuff about how somehow the horrible things they do is in the interest of some benighted group of people.
