Why Trump Keeps Filing These Asinine Motions Every Week, Although This One Takes the Cake

It’s Monday morning and yes, Virginia, Donald Trump’s lawyers have filed yet another specious, makeweight, frivolous motion, this time in the Georgia election racketeering case. Whut? Yes, we know you’re exhausted. We know you’re incredulous. And we know that you’re going to ask WHY does he keep doing this? I have a theory. But first, let’s take a look at this morning’s offering to the court. If there are gods of jurisprudence somewhere in another dimension, they too are shaking their heads and howling over this one.

In the case of the State of Georgia vs. Donald John Trump, the defendant filed a plea to dismiss the case on the grounds of double indemnity. The doctrine of double indemnity states that you cannot be tried twice for the same crime. Trump’s lawyers are claiming that the fact that he was already impeached and tried in the Senate for inciting an insurrection, precludes him from having to answer to the State of Georgia for his election interference there. Whut? Look, I didn’t write the thing, I’m just telling you what’s in it.

Let's turn to the Constitution: pic.twitter.com/7KaNxGPUV0

— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) January 8, 2024

The only thing I disagree with so far is the contention that this “borders on the comical.” I think this is drop dead, screamingly, howlingly funny. I think the last time Trump’s lawyers committed anything this nonsensical to a piece of 28-line paper was when he sued Hillary Clinton for “concocting a vast conspiracy against him.” Do you remember that? And the fact that he and Alina Habba got sanctioned a million bucks?

In a scathing ruling, US district court judge Donald Middlebrooks castigated Trump and his lead attorney, Alina Habba, for abusing the legal system by advancing a lawsuit that furthered his political grievances over the 2017 Russia investigation using arguments replete with misinformation and errors.

“We are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” Middlebrooks wrote in the 46-page order imposing sanctions of $937,989.39 against Trump and Habba.

The lawsuit, originally filed by Trump in March 2022, alleged that Clinton and the Democratic National Committee conspired with senior FBI officials and others before the 2016 election to fabricate ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in order to damage him politically.

But Middlebrooks dismissed the case after he found that Trump engaged in a scattershot pleading that amounted to an obstruction of justice, and which included allegations that were known to be false. His legal arguments, including racketeering and conspiracy, were found to be without foundation.

Bookmark or better yet memorize these four paragraphs because they not only apply to the case that they’re describing, they apply to this most recent pleading of Trump’s and to all of the cases that Trump files, or the defenses that he mounts. It’s pure bullshit, 100% of the time. Let’s return to today’s legal oeuvre.

Even if you accept the idea that an acquittal is different *and* an impeachment should be treated functionally like a criminal case, Georgia and the federal government are separate sovereigns. There's really nothing here. See, Gamble v. United States (U.S. 2019).

— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) January 8, 2024

Here's the full motion via @AnnaBower https://t.co/QCASXB1MGW

— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) January 8, 2024

This latest pleading of Trump’s was a waste of the filing fee. It was absolutely a waste of the time of the lawyers who cobbled it together. So that gets us to the big question, WHY does Trump continue to file these things? Why do his lawyers continue to embarrass themselves?

I think there are two reasons: 1. Trump is the kind of client known to a lot of lawyers, i.e., a lunatic with money. So a lot of lawyers will take a case with somebody like him because, hey, they’re going to get paid. It’s a matter of commerce. But there’s a bigger reason, which is, 2. It helps soften the blow. Trump’s legal outhouse is about to go up in flames and the stink is going to stick to the GOP for decades. That’s evident to anybody who is watching these cases as they move through the judicial system, one by one.

And they’re all going towards a resolution and it does not look like that resolution is going to be favorable to Defendant Trump. Now Trump’s lawyers can’t talk turkey to him like you can talk turkey to most clients. That’s because Trump is a child. He’s never grown up, he’s never been accountable for anything. He doesn’t know how real life works, only that you buy whatever and whomever you need, lawyers, wives, whatever, they all have price tags. Remember now, this is a man who has bought district attorneys in the past, or so the legend goes, and has certainly bought the GOP. Whether he exchanged cash money for the party, we don’t know, but he absolutely owns them, that much we do know.

Trump can’t get first rate legal support these days. He did manage to engage the services of Christopher Kise, who was a partner at at white shoe law firm before he resigned that position and took a retainer from Trump of some three million dollars. This is “unusually high” we are told. If Kise invests the $3 million well and does consulting work post-Trump, or writes a book, like everybody else in Trump world, he may end doing alright. I daresay that the idea of writing the book is what intrigued him the most. You don’t see him following Trump like a puppy dog to wrestling matches or going on Newsmax. Kise has a different agenda, one I’m sure we’ll find out in the fullness of time.

Meanwhile, look for these ludicrous legal filings to pop up on a regular basis. And this is why. Because Trump needs to believe he’s “fighting” even when he doesn’t have a leg to stand on, and besides it helps him with fundraising. Never forget for a moment, Trump has managed to get $250,000,000 from the MAGA rubes, because he tells them that he needs that money to “fight” the “stolen election” and get “reinstated.”

And, two, it helps the lawyers soften the blow. Every time he loses a motion and the cases inch forward, the lawyers are able to explain to him the next steps and attempt to prepare him psychologically for a bad eventual outcome.  It’s the proverbial spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down — although he’s going to need a veritable sugar mine when he sees what bitter pill he has to swallow when all the litigation is done.