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10. Trump presented his Russia hoax theory to a court. It went poorly.
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 01:56 PM
Sep 2022

TFG has been pushing the bizarre theory that Russia never tried to influence the 2016 election. This theory has no basis in reality, but TFG cannot accept the concept that he did not win 2016 on his own merits. It is clear that in the real world, Putin got TFG elected and TFG cannot accept reality

The lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Clinton campaign and 30+ defendants was so bad that it was impossible to read. Again, this lawsuit was drafted by two lawyers whose offices are in shopping centers and these idiots just put down TFG's craze ravings as facts. i loved the opinion that came down today that rejected TFG's crazed beliefs about Russian and the 2016 election.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/09/trump-2016-russia-clinton/

One of the hallmarks of Donald Trump’s tenure in American politics has been the extent to which he remained cocooned in his own world.....

And then, earlier this year, a change. Trump proudly removed his Russia theory from its home and presented it to the court, like a kid digging up a dandelion he’d been watching in his yard and offering it as a horticulture contender at the state fair. The verdict, offered in a filing on Thursday, was probably not what Trump would have hoped.

Suffice it to say, he did not earn a blue ribbon.

The background here is interesting, by the way. Trump presented his grand Russia hoax conspiracy in the form of a lawsuit, alleging that Hillary Clinton and others — FBI officials, attorneys, IT guys — had conspired against him in violation of racketeering statutes (a.k.a. RICO). The suit was filed in a specific courthouse in the Southern District of Florida, apparently with the hope that it would be heard by a particular judge that Trump himself had appointed......

In short, the theory that flourished in Trump’s friendly ecosystem was that the Russia probe was a function of explicit dishonesty on the part of Clinton: that her allies sought to create a dossier of false reports about Trump and Russia and that they used stolen data to suggest a link between Trump’s business and a Russian bank......

The judge made very clear that he understood Trump’s suit for what it obviously is.

“At its core, the problem with Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint is that Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm,” he wrote. “ … instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum.”


TFG's had no facts to support his claims and the court had no problem rejecting TFG's rants. Now it is time to sanction TFG and his shopping center lawyers for wasting the court's time on TFG's bizarre theory
Here is the link to the Judge's decision for those interested Bev54 Sep 2022 #1
Judge throws out Trump's RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and Democrats LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #2
Oh. My. God. This opinion should be required reading in every civil procedure class Ocelot II Sep 2022 #3
TFG wastes a lot of court time treestar Sep 2022 #4
In this lawsuit TFG was claiming economic injuries, regardless of the fact that he won. Ocelot II Sep 2022 #5
Be hard to imagine the economic injuries treestar Sep 2022 #11
And he's used it quite successfully for fund-raising. Ocelot II Sep 2022 #12
I also enjoyed reading this opinion LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #8
"Political Manifesto" makes him sound like the Unabomber Hekate Sep 2022 #15
There must be scorch marks on that response from the thundering speed of the judge's typing Hekate Sep 2022 #16
"Not the appropriate forum" gratuitous Sep 2022 #6
Dumbass gets slapped down again. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 #7
Gonna take a while to read this, but the teasers posted by Ocelot II, above, are irresistable. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #9
Trump presented his Russia hoax theory to a court. It went poorly. LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #10
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #13
Donald Trump's failed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton could get his lawyers in trouble LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #14
Great news! Hillary just got the last word on Trump again... LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #17
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