Trump Takes Another Legal Hit, This Time In DC

For Trump the legal hits just keep on coming. In recent times he lost and lost bigly in civil cases. In the most recent one, the New York state fraud case he’s facing a “secondary loss” as the bond he put up to stave off enforcement of the judgement might be voided. There’s a hearing next week on that one. When the week began Trump finally ran out of time and luck and found himself sitting in court as a criminal defendant. Things have to say the least stacked up, and today down in DC another court loss adds to his troubles.

Newsweek reports that a ruling in DC will allow civil lawsuits against Trump for his actions regarding Jan. 6 can move forward. Trump of course tried the usual Trump stuff to prevent todays ruling. And lost. Various Law Enforcement officers who defended the Capitol as well as some members of Congress decided to file civil claims against Trump. As I said he tried to nip all this in the bud but various (and high) hurdles were cleared along the way.

So Trump filed another motion with judge Mehta saying everything should wait until Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case is resolved. He even included the ridiculous Presidential Immunity argument into the motion filed last month. At the very least Trump’s motion asks to keep things on hold until after SCOTUS rules on Presidential Immunity. He also claims that by having to deal with this civil case he’d be revealing his strategy for his pending criminal case. Whew! Trump’s throwing the kitchen sink at this!  And missing his target as noted in the Newsweek article:

Mehta on Thursday rejected the request, ordering Trump to provide a “detailed description of the basis for his immunity defense” regarding the lawsuits by May 1. The judge also wrote that his court was “unlikely to make an immunity determination before the end of the Supreme Court’s term. Thus, if the Court’s ruling on criminal immunity is relevant to the outcome here, it can easily be applied.”

Well, that was a legal slap in Trump’s face but there’s more:

The judge also dismissed Trump’s argument that moving forward with his civil trial could reveal his court strategy for his criminal case, writing that while “both cases center on the former President’s actions in the lead up to and on January 6, 2021,” the “Defendant overstates the significance of that factual overlap in the present posture of these matters.”

That sounds like all nice and polite legal talk but it’s more like judge Mehta made a stop at the fish market over on the Potomac and bought a big ole wet fish to slap Trump across the face with. Or, thinking back on those endless days of pickup basketball games seeing someone get a shot brutally blocked complete with the taunt “get that weak sh(t outa here!”  Judge Mehta has just told Trump he’s going to have to come up with a LOT better than what he’s presented so far to keep these civil cases from moving forward.

So where does that leave Trump this evening? In the past year he’s lost three civil trials and with the last two has had to come up with cash or bond that combined (once you add in interest that’s accruing daily) well over $550 million dollars. He’s under criminal indictment in four separate jurisdictions and as of this week he’s actually now on trial in one of those cases. And now, at a time he can least afford it both financially (a bunch of new legal costs now in DC) and from a time/mental energy standpoint he’s hit with MORE legal trouble.

Like I said the hits keep coming and who knows what else is out there? Might E. Jean Carroll choose to take another chunk out of Trump? He’s already given her legal cause to do so. And if the court invalidates his bond I don’t new New York AG James cutting Trump any more slack. She’s going to start filing motions to collect.  Questions are being raised about FEC violations with Truth Social and defending that will require still more lawyers. Ones who know what they’re doing so they won’t be cheap.

Trump is to me like a male caught up in the whole Salem Witch mania centuries ago. Contrary to popular belief the accused witches weren’t burned at the stake. They were hung. Except at least one, some poor guy was executed in a far more prolonged and painful way. Something called “pressing.” The condemned is lain flat on the ground and pinned in place while a heavy wooden platform covering them up to their shoulders is lain on top. Then heavy stones are added, one by one. As more stones are piled on the chest and torso the more difficult it becomes to breathe. Eventually the person can’t breathe in and out at all and finally, mercifully after a few minutes loses consciousness and dies.

When I think of all the legal problems that have piled up for Trump, and now with more added that’s how I think of the end of Trump. Death by pressing. Not being able to breathe, even for four or five seconds is terrifying. (I know from experience. Back when I was a Marine and we practiced choke holds we had to practice them on each other) I’d like to think of Trump experiencing that kind of terror. So I say bravo to judge Mehta for adding more stones to the pile Trump is already under.