The most litigious president in American history is unquestionably Donald Trump. He has a penchant for suing anyone and everyone, generally without any legal merit, as a means of retribution and to punish his political enemies for daring to challenge his delusional divinity.
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Trump’s most frequent attempts to abuse the court system have been through his challenges to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. He and his associates lost at least sixty such lawsuits, mostly for failing utterly to provide a shred of evidence supporting his baseless assertions of voter fraud. The parade of frivolous litigation came to be referred to by politicians and the press as Trump’s “Big Lie.” And that triggered the perpetually perturbed Trump to file a lawsuit against CNN for defamation.
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On Friday Trump’s case against CNN was thrown out of court for failing to present any argument that the reporting by CNN wasn’t actually true. According to Deadline…
“A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, litigation centered on references made by on-air figures to “the Big Lie,” or the former president’s unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
Trump had argued in his lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, that the references to the phrase were defamatory as they created a “false and incendiary association” between him and Adolf Hitler.”
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, a Trump appointee, ruled that the lawsuit cited CNN segments that were merely “a stacking of inferences that cannot support a finding of falsehood.” In other words, Trump could not prove that describing his unfounded claims of election fraud as the “Big Lie” was untrue. And as always, truth is the best defense against defamation. CNN’s reporting, according to the court, was lawful opinion, and Trump failed to make a plausible argument that it was in any way false.
The court also appropriately refused to entertain Trump’s complaint that associating him with a phrase that has been attributed to Hitler’s Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, was defamatory. How could it be when such associations are objectively true. Trump has been a far more prolific and flagrant disseminator of lies and propaganda than the Nazi regime. If anything, Hitler might have a better case of defamation for being associated with Trump.
Many of Trump’s misadventures in legal malpractice involve the media. He is especially anxious to try to muzzle the free press that he believes is out to get him. Consequently, he has sued everyone from CNN, to the Washington Post, to Twitter, and more. He even sued the Pulitzer board for awarding prizes to newspapers that honestly reported on his unsavory ties to Russia.
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Trump has yet to prevail in of his defamation lawsuits. That’s because he has never even bothered to present a coherent argument that he was defamed or suffered any damages to his already repugnant reputation. It has always been a poorly staged melodrama of malice meant to bully those he hated or feared. And his record of losses is the best evidence of his disingenuous intent. Yet somehow, he persists in these losing causes no matter how many times he is struck down in humiliation.
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‘Hitler might have a better case of defamation action for being associated with Trump.’
That is so perfect, Mark. I love it! Where do you get your ideas?
From the intro-“The most litigious president in American history is unquestionably Donald Trump. He has a penchant for suing anyone and everyone, generally without any legal merit, as a means of retribution and to punish his political enemies for daring to challenge his delusional divinity.” Okay, WHY though? Why is this dumbs**t allowed? Why is he or anyone else for that matter, ALLOWED to keep suing and suing and suing? It makes NO sense and is bulls**t. The fact that he, kari lake or anyone else, can sue anyone and everyone, basically, forever, tells you how fcked UP our so called legal system is.
TUMP and Hitler are very similar in their evil actions. I also wonder how he keeps doing this, but i think he sues people because he wants to get back at them for telling the truth about his sorry ass. My youngest son got mad at me about 4 years ago because i sent him a text and told him, ” Donald TUMP” is another Adolf Hiter that doesn’t give a damn about you or me or anyone that isn’t beholden to him.” He came to my house and told me he resents me for comparing TUMP to Hitler. I told him, ” i told you the truth about that corrupt SOB, and i don’t care one way or another if you like it or not” He is not very enthusiastic about TUMP now, but he still won’t say anything about him… His wife is a Democratic supporter, but she doesn’t dare tell him about that. I also wonder why these Fascist Rethugs keep getting by breaking our election laws by purging voters and this Gerrymandering districts??? Why isn’t anyone enforcing this?? They are even defying a Supreme Court ruling in Alabama now. Our legal system is really screwed up.
Reminding one and all, Senile Rudy Ghoul said truth isn’t truth.
But trumpshit will always be trumpshit….
I really liked that name you gave about Ghouiani, ”Senile Rudy Ghoul” That is a perfect name for that creep. Reminds me of the day with black dye running down his putrid face. I suppose they just had dug him up in a cemetary on Riker’s Island. LMAO!!