Ok, all. We know how Trump sues anyone and everyone who gives him the slightest excuse. He must be going through lawyers like hotcakes. I don’t know if he’s actually paying them or not, so that’s the first thing. The other is how they must be so tired of dealing with Trump’s nonsense, especially with him sliding into dementia. And how do they keep a straight face when filing, and appearing in court? Only The Shadow knows. From Raw Story:
A federal judge tossed President Donald Trump’s voluminous defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, and social media users were stunned by the brutal critique of his attorneys’ work. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday ordered the lawsuit struck but gave the president 28 days to file an amended complaint that meets the professional standard governed by the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure requiring complaints to “a short and plain statement” explaining why the pleader is entitled to relief under the law, and he repeatedly showed how Trump’s suit fell short by being way too long.
He was being far too nice about giving them time to rework it. Trump likes wordy things. He thinks he can hide something in them. He always gets caught, yet he tries and tries again. This time, Trump’s attorneys took some serious Hulk Smash from the judge, because the rest of the time he was NOT nice. He was *nuclear*.
“Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes eighty-five pages,” Merryday wrote. “Count I appears on page eighty, and Count II appears on page eighty-three. Pages one through seventy-nine, plus part of page eighty, present allegations common to both counts and to all defendants. Each count alleges a claim against each defendant and, apparently, each claim seeks the same remedy against each defendant.” “Even under the most generous and lenient application of Rule 8,” the judge added, “the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible.”
WHAM. The Hulk Smashed, and boy did he ever! How to say frivolous without actually saying it. This is a legal case that should be studied by up-and-coming law students, because yikes! That’s one of the best Trump takedowns I’ve ever seen. Oh, to have been in that courtroom when he shredded Trump’s lawyers! That would have been worth the effort to go there and watch. Oh, yes. To close, a couple of fun quotes from social media.
Legal experts and others pored over the judge’s ruling and marveled at the judge’s scathing takedown. //// “So we can expect a joke today from Vance about how this judge should avoid boating offshore?” said HuffPost’s S.V. Dáte. //// “SAD!” chuckled Fox News pundit Jessica Tarlov. //// “Why isn’t Trump fined for filing frivolous lawsuits?” wondered political scientist Larry Sabato. “And we want to see massive fines! //// “Remarkable judicial order in Trump NYT lawsuit – tl;dr, this is a lot of PR garbage, not a complaint, please re-file something serious,” posted Semafor’s Dave Weigel. “This is what you give a pro se litigant who’s suing NASA for putting a telepathy chip in his dog’s brain.”
Ahahahaha. There’s a bit more to the article that you can read here, if you want to check it out. Trump’s attorneys got their ears pinned back and their hair scorched. But now they have a problem. They have to tell Trump that the suit was thrown out of court, and they have to redo it. I hope they have practiced dodging ketchup bottles. Actually, I’ll bet pretty much all of Trump’s cabinet has practice at that. Susie probably doesn’t, but then she *really* knows how to handle him. So. We will see what they try next. I hope they get Hulk Smash(ed) again. We shall see!
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The Trump tiny car pulls up with his tiny hands clutched in a white knuckle grip on the steering wheel…and out pours a thousand evil clowns dressed in suits.
Ahahahaha Scott! Well said! Thank you! (sooo appropriate)
Susie appears to be able “handle” Trump by doing bugger all to control him in any way. I suspect what’s she handling best is holding onto her cushy job. And yeah, avoiding flying ketchup bottles..