The competition for “Most Litigious President” has long been decided with Donald Trump coming in at the head of the pack by insurmountable margins. Trump is well known to sue anyone or anything that dares to tell the truth about him, or pursues a policy path that he disagrees with.

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The list of Trump’s legal victims includes politicians, universities, government agencies, legal firms, and perhaps more than anything else, media and journalists. Suing the media is one of the methods that Trump regularly employs to intimidate the free press, and/or to exact retribution on them for doing their job. And if Trump can’t muzzle the media, he will simply banish them.

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Fortunately, there is still some measure of integrity within the American judicial system. And Trump’s batting average with his loopy lawsuits is pitifully low. The most recent example of this is a suit that Trump filed last year against the Wall Street Journal over a well documented and sourced story concerning Trump’s unsavory relationship with child sex trafficker and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. As reported by NBC News…

“A federal judge in Florida on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a story on a bawdy 50th birthday card he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles tossed the case after finding Trump’s suit “comes nowhere close” to reaching the standard of actual malice.”

Trump’s lawsuit was utterly meritless from the start. Particularly the claim of $10 billion in damages. The birthday card, that Trump said didn’t exist, was later provided to Congress by the Epstein estate. In addition to his birthday greetings, Trump expressed his hopes for his good friend that “may every day be another wonderful secret.” Which is ultra creepy given everything we know now about Epstein and Trump.

Trump has already said that he plans to refile the suit. But his record of success in these matters should have persuaded him to let it go. Here are just a few of the outcomes of some earlier lawsuits…

• A case against CNN for reporting about his “Big Lie” that he won the 2020 election was dismissed.
• A case against Harvard University, who prevailed in litigation against Trump when he tried to withhold federal grants.
• Harvard also won when Trump tried to block the enrollment of international students.
• Several law firms won temporary restraining orders prohibiting Trump from punishing them for engaging in litigation against him.
• Journalist Bob Woodward beat him in a suit where Trump sought to prohibit him from using audio tapes recorded during an interview.
• A case against Hillary Clinton alleging that she lied in her campaign against him in 2016. Trump was ordered to pay Clinton nearly $1 million for legal fees.
• And writer E. Jean Carroll scored about $90 million in a judgment against Trump for defamation in a suit involving his sexual abuse of her in a department store dressing room.

The Wall Street Journal was right to fight Trump’s legal harassment. The lesson that other victims should take from this is that if you fight Trump, you’re likely to win. Capitulating will get you nothing but more harassment, while exposing your weakness to Trump who will surely exploit it. And beating Trump’s malicious lawsuits has the added benefit of preserving the integrity of the defendant and gaining the respect of the nation.

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