it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following
of the republicans had an injury in arizona is going to be in the hospital so that takes you don to three. so i disagree with andrew s point about how i think they re hoping that whoever takes this problem off their hands. long island this has been a traditionally democratic district, it s hard to imagine that he gets replaced by another republican after all this ludicrous behavior. michael gold, a lot of what we know because the republican party is everything tim just said and more and it doesn t have the ability to purge people that don t vet out, i m not clear that they even vet people. we know from the journalism about this race and about this congressman and a lot of it is your journalism so thank you so much for telling the story and keeping us informed. to you and your colleagues, our thanks. tim miller, thank you for starting us off and for taking my side in the last block. andrew returns with mike at the end of the next hour to be part of that conversation with tim hafey.