More Losses For Trump, Defective NY Filing Plus Biopic Opens October 11

Happy Friday, Donald. And Happy Labor Day, too. While the rest of us celebrate the fruits of our labors, your labors are all for naught. By that we mean your lawyers’s labors. We know that you toil not, neither do you spin. You just tweet and throw ketchup. Have they told you yet, that that motion you filed in New York (again) to have the hush money trial removed to federal court has gone down in flames.? Again? And predictably so. Do your lawyers promise you miracles, or you just hope and pray for one?

BREAKING: In a major embarrassment, Judge Hellerstein has rejected Trump’s removal filing. As he properly notes, it’s an amended removal notice and as such requires either leave of DANY (no way) or leave of court (we will see). Many other flaws too. 👇 https://t.co/hXap4nnQj1 pic.twitter.com/3vunf3QfTg

— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) August 30, 2024

But the fundamental problem with this ploy is that Trump already tried to remove the case & lost—no second bites at the apple!

Judge Hellerstein who has the case & who denied him before should shut him down on that basis alone 3/xhttps://t.co/ahm43aswWR

— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) August 30, 2024

Well, so much for that Hail Mary play. 

Trump already attempted to move the case into federal court even before the proceedings began. Last year, his legal team argued that the payments Trump made were related to Trump’s conduct while he was in office, meaning that the case should be heard in federal court. U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who will likely hear Trump’s newest request as well, denied the motion. He ruled that Trump’s actions were not considered official acts, giving a potential preview to how he might rule on Thursday’s filing. “The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was purely a personal item of the President — a cover-up of an embarrassing event,” he wrote in his decision.

The Supreme Court’s decision continues to influence the pending legal cases against Trump. Aileen Cannon, a Trump-friendly federal judge in Florida, dismissed the federal government’s classified-documents case against him, citing the ruling. Special counsel Jack Smith has since appealed her decision. He has also submitted a revised indictment in his election-subversion case against Trump in an attempt to address the issues raised by the nation’s highest court.

And then it gets worse for Donald. The movie, The Apprentice, is going to be released in October in the United States. So we’ll get to watch a biographical depiction of Trump taking amphetimines, getting lipsuction and raping his wife. There was a question in the summer whether United States audiences would ever get a chance to see the biopic because a distributor wasn’t found. But now there is one.

The movie is scheduled to be released on Oct. 11 — ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election — by Briarcliff Entertainment, a distributor founded by Tom Ortenberg, who was a producer on “Spotlight” and “W.” The news was confirmed by two people familiar with the negotiations. […]

Several studios in Hollywood — including Focus Features, Sony, Searchlight, Netflix, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Amazon’s Prime Video and A24 — declined to pick up the film, with some worrying that audiences on both sides of the political spectrum might find reasons to avoid it. Then Mr. Ortenberg, who has a history of championing polarizing fare — including Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” — stepped into the fray.

October 11 is five weeks before Waterloo, November 5. That should give America plenty of time to see it. So much winning. Unfortunately for Donald, it’s not him who’s winning, it’s us. And we’re not tired of it yet. No, in fact, we’re just getting started. We have a lotttt more winning to do.

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