Discovering that Trump's data protection suit against Christopher Steele was rejected was a fun thing to trip over on a Thursday morning. There's no good reason to have brought that case, and no good reason to file it when it got filed except--as a warning that Trump will try to sue you eventually if you say mean things about him ever? I don't know UK law, but this was rejected for statute of limitations, which really feels to me like he didn't want the suit, just the message the making the suit sends. And his campaign paid for the pleasure of a lolsuit. (Level Law--the firm--it's in his FEC reports. Donors are paying for the pleasure of Trump satisfying his grudges.)
Trump's predicament is dumb. What if there were a suit that had to deal with the data in the dossier, which would be rehashing shit that could have come up in 2016--NOW?! Me? I think there were a LOT OF THINGS we could have discussed about Trump in 2016 that we didn't. And now it's 2024, there's SO MUCH MORE.
Bad pennies do turn up. Take Allan Weisselberg. He's either the hold up in the civil trial decision (which was supposed to be Wednesday!) or the new big fish reeled in for Bragg's fraud prosecution or maybe neither or maybe both. Without a lot of detail, my guess is if he was lying, he was lying for Trump and probably on more than one thing. And he was suborned to do so by being compensated for his tax/penalty losses. See, if I know one thing about Trump from the Mueller investigation--it's that he loves obstruction of justice. You know--because justice would totally have his ass otherwise.
Seeing Trump try to evade the law and get fucked in both his civil trial and a criminal trial, with a possible additional indictment for charges of obstruction and subornation of perjury would probably make me a believer in some kind of higher retributive power.
Anyway, when it rains bad pennies from heaven, it pours, Looks like Jack Smith and them are trying to sort out whether Trump still has withheld classified government documents, which I surely think is more than possible. There was a hidden room. That's crazy. Like it wasn't behind a bookshelf that moved when you jiggled a candlestick like in the movies, but kind of? And just for some other shits and grins--Waltine (sweatergawd-that's what his mama decided?) Nauta was a sexual harasser when Trump picked him up. That is to say, Trump loves a type. People who are bad and can be leveraged.
Here's another damn thing--Aileen Cannon. I'm mad as hell that one of the worst things about Trump (that he's a national security nightmare) is possibly getting smoothed over by a Trump-loving hack. But you know how Trump wants to appeal everything? (Like his civil trials, where I don't think he can make anything better no matter what new lawyer he brings in?)
I guess appeals happen the other way about, too.
Anyway, anyone looking for a piece of Trump should probably take notes from Tristan Snell, who brought down Trump University--a really bad fraud more and more people should know about. They might also want to pay attention to what folks like Tim O'Brian and David Cay Johnston have to say about what Trump's likely civil penalties alone will do to his kind of obscure finances.
They gonna be so obscure Trump can't find them. And he will be wishing it was raining pennies, good, bad or otherwise. But that's probably just me--having a little bit of schadenfreude. It is one of my favorite German deserts.
In related news. he probably did trigger the Hunter Biden charges and they are dumb and wrong. Trump is literally the guy telling you to jump off a bridge that your ma said "If everyone else was jumping off a bridge--would you?" about. C'mon, man.
I also still want an emoluments case. I'm just staying out here forgetting not one damn thing.
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