No! NO! TAKE IT BACK! "'Jaw-dropping' corruption could see Trump's UFC fight scrapped at last-minute: law expert" [View all]

[Miles Archer]

Raw Story link, as well as the Substack link for the full Joyce Vance article.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ufc-2677012449/

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-2c9

"The amount of corruption alleged in this lawsuit is jaw dropping, even for Trump," she wrote on BlueSky.

For one thing, she noted, the plaintiffs point out that Trump “giving White and his company what none have enjoyed before: unfettered access to the White House and Lincoln Memorial to stage a private, for-profit sports event, with all the promotional and branding opportunities that accompany such access” — all while he purchased up to $50,000 in stock in the UFC's parent company, and the UFC itself promotes a cryptocurrency firm sponsoring the event and advertising itself with White House iconography.

And as all this is going on, the plaintiffs — a Vietnam vet and a senior citizen activist — said, this whole project defaces the nation's capital. “The Claw, which is constructed primarily out of steel, is 92 feet tall, 154 feet wide, and weighs 600 tons ... The Claw thus dwarfs the adjacent White House. It is visible from the National Mall to the south," the lawsuit reads.

To do this, the suit continued, the White House and UFC are violating National Park Service regulations, ignoring congressional approval, and environmental permitting.

The complainants are asking a judge to stop the event from taking place.

"A ruling and perhaps an appeal or two could materialize quickly given