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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 fol ....
Think the most interesting and pointed thing he says is this isn t a client at the whim of his lawyers. he s directing the legal strategy. why did it take this long for a judge to call him out? so i actually am more with mike on that. of course you are. because i think if you step back i think there are two really interesting things that this is emblematic of, one is exactly the fact that the court was willing to say, no, this is on you, you can t say that i m relying on counsel and that i just followed what counsel said and that s going to be quite important as we go on. he was just, as you said, was not having any of that and saying, you know, this is your consistent pattern. but the other is i think it is a sign that if you look at the three branches of government and how they have fared, even during the trump administration, we have seen by far the judiciary is the one that has stood up and not uniformly, we do have judge canon, but if you look at what ....