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Peter's avatar

This would have been the inevitable outcome for Trump's bullshit lawsuits against ABC and CBS as well had they chosen not to cave to the bully. He is, and always has been, a full of shit bully and he always loses to those who stand up to him...as long as they have the resources to do so. Never forget that he built his whole tacky empire in New York on the backs of contractors and partners that he stiffed who could not afford to fight him.

pat bahn's avatar

The WSJ should move for sanctions against trump and the lawyer who filed rhis case. It’s clearly an attempted fraud and should lead to the attorney being disbarred and trump paying triple damages to the WSJ

Ginny K's avatar

"Powerhouse lawsuit" lol

Adam's avatar

I read that and was overcome by a fit of the giggles! What a maroon.

Katy Bolger's avatar

Do you know a person incapable of telling the truth? He lies just to keep the other lies going? And for no good reason? It is exhausting to be around a person like that but it also bears the mark of an abuser. Sure, they are sick in the head, but the persons being lied to are being disrespected constantly. Can you imagine being with Trump all those years? His family has their hands out so they stay. The wives stay until another woman moves in. But others? All greedy m*f*s, everyone one of them is in it for the money and the power. They should not have either.

A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

I was married to a pathological liar. Lying for decades, even lying consistently for just a few years changes the brains ability to distinguish between the fact and fiction of their lies. They live the lies in truth, they honestly believe their fiction. This is mental illness. This is just one of Trumps mental illnesses.

Katy Bolger's avatar

I have known a few rooted liars. It's difficult to understand with a rational mind why they are lying so our brains believe them because why would they lie about what they had for lunch? Why would they lie that they had gone to store when they had not gone to store? It's not the big things (which they lie about) it's all the small inconsequential things. Look at Trump. He will point to the sky and say the sky is green and the scrum of reporters will ask: What is your position on the sky turning green?

There's the rub.

A Sarcastic Prophet's avatar

At the end of it all, after my ex had brain surgery because two years of uncontrolled high blood pressure (the disconnect between what the body knew but the brain refused to acknowledge perhaps?) had created life threatening brain bleeds. During therapy after surgery because he had to relearn so much (and still struggles with memory and fatigue) I point blank asked him, why? He lost his family, stable finances, his health, his work, damn near died, I asked why? His response- You are such a know it all. Even if I balled up a pair of socks and didn’t put it in the drawer, I would tell you I did because I liked knowing things you didn’t know.

Katy Bolger's avatar

The best word in your reply is "ex". Save yourself, Sarcastic Prophet!

Jeanie's avatar
8hEdited

The one person who could order all the files open, unredacted, won't do it. He uses them to keep people dangling on his every word.

He continues to argue and make nutty comments. We pay his staff to create memes to outrage and disgust. He portrays ignorance to give ignorance a toy. He's nothing more than a carny...specifically placed in office by those with land they want to rape and people they want removed.

Dunk the carny, they make the money. Drip drop dopamine.

NubbyShober's avatar

It will be surprising if Trump doesn't re-file this lawsuit. Which is actually OK, as the more public attention is brought to the government and Congressional coverup of the Epstein files, the greater likelihood that this piece-of-shit administration suddenly "discovers" another two or three million pages of documents for release. Or, releases unredacted versions of already released emails that includes the names of Epstein co-conspirators.

And make no mistake, Republicans are overwhelmingly the villains here. Going all the way back to the 2008 sweetheart deal made by rising GOP star Alex Acosta, and the GOP mega-firm Kirkland & Ellis, whose high-powered lawyers Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz ensured the case was removed from FL jurisdiction to federal.

Eddie's avatar

" I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one."— Winston Churchill

And so it is. HIStory is replete with unrepentant male robbers. The Mad Hatter is no Churchill, a messiah of malevolence convinced there's no need to apologize for anything, so fully embraces being a selfish prick. (One finger salutes‼️)

Mark H. Jones's avatar

That drawing does not depict a woman. It depicts an adolescent girl.

Bela's avatar

In your mind.

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I continue to hope that the president we're currently stuck with is not the president we deserved.

VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

Yes, that conclusion deserves a critical examination. A response of not standing up for the truth sees to be the key. Distilling this dynamic, we can look at what makes it possible for a small child to develop into a bully. How sad that law firms, universities, people in power, including the Senate Republicans and Republican House members have shaped our country to represent this shameful extent. There is a reason that our longstanding allies no longer trust or depend on our former reputation for moral integrity and freedom..

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Deep Throat's famous advice during Watergate was "Follow the money." If more USians were savvy about economic power, we'd be much better off because that's what's been working hard to undermine or control the three constitutional branches since the founding. Since Reagan it hasn't had nearly enough pushback. At the same time, and not coincidentally, our "reputation for moral integrity and freedom" has always had shaky foundations, as anyone familiar with our history realizes.

Bela's avatar

That's too deep for me. today.

Kathleen Dintaman's avatar

“The President will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in Fake News to mislead the American People.”

Can We the People hold Donald J Trump accountable for misleading us with Fake News?

Dave Drell's avatar

The Fake News media should brand his as the Fake Presidency.

Bela's avatar

dream on ....

Bela's avatar

Might do better to pursue other kinds of accountability. Just curious, were you misled with fake news?

Marliss Desens's avatar

Judd Legum presents a clear, concise account of why the lawsuit was dismissed and points out that it was dismissed "without prejudice," meaning Trump can refile it. However, while Trump probably will order his lawyers to do so, it is unlikely to succeed because they have no more evidence of malice than they had the first time.

Joe Weicher's avatar

Somehow I naively believed that bar associations would sanction lawyers pursuing these disingenuous Trump suits, but bar associations are clubs, just like medical associations and police unions, just like the House and Senate.

Porter. LR's avatar

Donnie loves to see his name on things so perhaps someone could hand out t-shirts with that image to attendees at his birthday UFC fight, i'm sure he would show his appreciation

Pat McCann's avatar

Look for Trump to refine this suit in about two weeks.

S maltophilia's avatar

Trump didn't draw that card any more than he built the buildiings. Somebody did the hard part and he put his name on them.

RD's avatar

Darn, I was waiting for the tyrump to be deposed under oath.