Order including alvin bragg and his own family. That ruling came in an order last night following a filing from alvin Braggs Office and in the wake of repeated attacks and ongoing ones by trump on the judges daughter. The kind of stuff so completely nonsensical and baseless and Out Of Bounds that most normal criminal defendants would not contemplate launching attacks like this. But donald trump is no ordinary criminal defendant, is he. Next expresident. With just two weeks to go before he goes on trial. He was intent on turning the proceedings into a circus. To benefit him politically, because he knows that winning the white house may be his only way out of his now many legal trev ails. The judge dismisses the claim that hes exercising his First Amendment right to free speech when he charges the judges daughter, and that is judge talk for a lie. This pattern after tacking Family Members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It merely inj
fighting back. truth does matter. truth does matter. and if it s a legitimate defamation suit, you could continue it and maybe win it even during this criminal investigation. that just changed. this is super important. cohen s not fighting back anymore. in fact, while cohen claims that his basic suit there would have merit, he says he now doesn t have the time to do this case. the decision to drop the lawsuit comes, though, just days after a report that mueller is confirming part of the dossier s claims about cohen. we haven t confirmed that here at nbc. if cohen did meet with russian officials in prague, if the claims in the dossier are even partly true, then obviously he has no defamation case. buzzfeed said cohen s decision shows, he no longer thinks the attack is worth his time. he can focus on his other legal trev ails. prosecutors investigating him for bank fraud, wire froaud.