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Rhiannon12866

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Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:02 PM Sep 2025

Federal Judge THROWS OUT Donald Trump's Defamation Complaint Against the New York Times - Glenn Kirschner



In a four-page court order that is one for the ages, Judge Steven Merryday "struck" for the record Donald Trump's complaint that he filed in his absurd $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times.

Judge Merryday, appointed to the federal bench by President George H.W. Bush. eviscerates Trump's legal filing, saying it does not comport with the Rules of Civil Procedure. The judge notes: "The reader must endure an allegation of 'the desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass' and an allegation that 'the false narrative about 'The Apprentice' was just the tip of Defendants' melting iceberg of falsehoods.' Similarly, in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory (toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, 'The Apprentice' represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump's singular brilliance...'"

So, yeah, the judge threw out the blathering, bloviating, nonsensical pleading, and gave Trump's lawyers 28 days to try to do it right, in accordance with the rules of procedure. - Glenn Kirschner - 09/19/2025.

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Federal Judge THROWS OUT Donald Trump's Defamation Complaint Against the New York Times - Glenn Kirschner (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2025 OP
You can't just throw your Baby Spoon up in the air.... MagaSmash Sep 2025 #1

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