Trump Sues CNN For $475M

@Crazywaterspring This one, though has almost no chance of getting past the motion to dismiss stage and into discovery, even if he pulls another sympathetic district court judge.


There's practically no allegations of false factual statements even made in the Complaint. It reads like it was designed as a hail Mary or even a Big Ben to Thomas to gut the First Amendment, without even a receiver running a sideline pattern to stop the clock.

Maybe Trump thinks it's half time?

@TrashCat I think you're exactly correct about Trump's CNN suit being nothing but a fund raising mechanism. And the more money Trump sucks out of con suckers' wallets, the less money there is for down ballot con candidates. It's a win-win situation for democrats!!

@softspokenman Ya know, that raises a good point.

In the history of our country, I'm guessing Trump has probably publicly threatened more frivolous litigation although I'm not sure he's actually filed that many or how many of his abuses of the legal system are counterclaims.

Appointing his "own" judges has certainly opened things up for that, but someone should probably do some research before he submits to Guinness and gets those bragging rights.

@MistyCee $s to 🥯s, he holds the world's record.

@Northwest Mebbe. The thing is, he's filed an awful lot of bankruptcy proceedings, which practically eliminate the strategic advantage of actually filing individual frivolous legal proceedings.

@MistyCee It is legal garbage. This, like all his other suits, will be dismissed, but it will be used in the email the MAGA crowd is receiving now, asking for donations.

@Northwest Yeah, good point. I keep forgetting how much of Trump's stuff is about fundraising/money laundering as opposed to more outright political or legal manuvering.

In that vein, I think this complaint is actually pretty impressive. As Trump burns through ethical lawyers and human beings, he actually does seem to be building a new purer set of minions devoted to not just Trump, but also, Trumpism, and the promotion of image over substance or principle.

I really hope Trusty and Halligan get held accountable for this, but its likely as foolish a hope as the one I had that Trump wouldn't have won in 2016.

@Ynotisay
That's a tall order.

@Northwest Seems that way, huh?

@plungesponge Ha. When they go low - Trump goes high.

@ManKing I like how you like your own comments. Reminds me of someone else here.


Hunter Biden ran for office, and information on the laptop would have stopped him from winning. Got it. Wait, this did not happen.

The laptop was in DOJ hands for nearly a year, and other than some porn, they found nothing on it. Legitimate or not, there is no smoking gun.

@Northwest I missed how Hunter ran for office

No offense, but this seems like stuff I want to talk about in the huddle, or even after in the locker room with Coach Soros.

@Graylight as far as a scheduled deposition.

@Carla It'll get dismissed before then. As much as CNN might be tempted, every News org will put the pressure on this one.

He rested the thing on Hitler and the big Lie, and if they let that pass for facts, they're all out of business.

I'm actually wondering what a Fox Amicus brief looks like, not that it would come to that.

My guess is, Trump is really panicked to file this one, and I hope, for the sake of their families, the lawyers who signed off on this are getting paid up front in advance.