Just a reminder that President Biden made sure he appointed as many federal judges as he could before leaving office and is a huge reason we have been saved from some of trump’s worst impulses.
BREAKING: Trump's $10 billion BBC lawsuit is BACKFIRING BIGLY and may force Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6 evidence back into the courtroom
After making $16 million from Paramount/CBS to settle one of his frivolous lawsuits, Donald Trump figured he could keep suing media companies and rake in the dough from corporate CEOs who would rather give in than face a protracted and expensive legal fight.
But Trump got greedy and wanted a $10 billion payday from his next target, Britain’s venerable public broadcaster, the BBC.
What he's getting instead is a legal nightmare of his own making.
Trump sued the BBC last December, claiming a documentary on their news program Panorama, "put words in his mouth" by editing together portions of his January 6th speech delivered nearly 50 minutes apart.
He even bizarrely claimed the network used AI to fabricate his words — it didn't. The BBC did splice the footage, which sparked an internal investigation, the firing of some senior officials at the broadcaster, and the issuing of a written apology.
An apology simply wasn't enough for Trump, however. He still wanted that $10 billion.
Now his lawsuit against the British broadcaster is unraveling spectacularly.
A federal judge ruled this week that Trump must hand over detailed financial records from more than 400 companies tied to his family trust — because HIS OWN lawsuit claims the BBC's editing damaged his businesses.
You can't claim massive financial injury and then refuse to show your books. Judge Enjoliqué Lett wasn't buying the attempted dodge: "All of President Trump's brand, properties and businesses are impugned... Reputational, economic damages, all of that is now at issue in this case."
It gets worse. The same judge greenlit subpoenas targeting Trump's inner circle — Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, and Stephen Miller — to determine what Trump actually intended on January 6th.
And now, in a third gut-punch within 24 hours, the BBC is demanding records showing exactly how Trump LOST his executive privilege claims during Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6th investigation.
Smith's team had already gathered evidence establishing that the Capitol violence was "foreseeable" to Trump, that he "caused it," and that he made "a conscious choice not to stop it" once it began. If the BBC gets that evidence, Trump's entire defamation case collapses.
Trump built a career suing media outlets into silence. This time, he sued an organization willing to actually fight — and in doing so, handed prosecutors a roadmap straight into his finances, his inner circle, and his own conduct on January 6th.
Plus, the public may get another chance to review the evidence that Jack Smith amassed against Trump, evidence that judges appointed by the litigious president have made sure that he’ll never be held accountable for.
Sometimes a lawsuit is simply a trap you built for yourself.
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They're not getting bail. Historically, very few people have ever been granted bail while waiting to be extradited, even if they challenged the proceedings.
They're not getting "pardoned" - the charges originate in the UK where no US politician has that ability, never mind they have no incentive to do so.
They're NOT US citizens. They are dual citizens of the US and the UK, and have never lived in the US as adults, where they were adults in the UK when these alleged crimes described in detail took place.
They're not getting saved from extradition. In the history of the current extradition agreement, the US has never failed to deliver on a UK demand for extradition.
They're going to the UK, to face justice for the laundry lists of crimes for which they have been charged.
End of story.
The ex-wife of ICE agent David Brouillette speaks out: “He’s like, ‘I need you to lie about my character because what it comes down to is my character, I don’t want you talking about any of the abuse in our relationship.’ I told him I was not gonna lie for him, that I’ve waited years to speak my truth, I’ve been silenced long enough and now I need to come out with everything because a man lost his life. It was abuse not only to me, but to our daughter. Even being divorced from him, I’ve dealt with harassing phone calls, threats of him wanting to kill me. I believe this man was murdered. I believe David’s mental health played a part in what happened”
Tonight, America watched the ramblings of a mad king.
Donald Trump’s address was not about the last election — it was THIS one.
Before a single vote has been cast, he’s already laying the groundwork to rig this election and convince YOU not to trust the results if they don’t go his way.
This is what authoritarians do. Don’t fall for it.
Organize. Mobilize. SHOW UP and VOTE in November!
The thing that pisses me off….. is that we haven’t held a single one of the ICE agents accountable.
They are going to keep murdering people if they don’t believe there will be repercussions.
WHO ARE THESE ICE OFFICERS??