TWIT: Frivolity Costs

More:  After being sanctioned in Florida federal court for bringing abusive law suits (see below), Trump dropped his appeal of the dismissal of his suit against New York Attorney General for investigating him and his company for financial fraud.  Letitia Jame's case against Trump is pending in New York state court where she is asking that Trump be fined $250 million and be permanently banned from doing business in the state.  Jame's cleverly dubbed Trump's deliberate inflation of his assets for the purposes of receiving millions in bank loans, "the art of the steal" after Trump's popular ghost-written book, "Art of the Deal".

{21/01/2023} The US judicial system is finally recognizing the fact that the Orange Menace is a serial abuser of  legal process.  A federal district court judge imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions on Trump and his lead lawyer Alina Habba for bringing a frivolous lawsuit against Hilary Clinton.  Allegedly, without substantial basis the suit accused Clinton and the Democratic National Committee of engaging in a conspiracy to "weave a false narrative" that he and his campaign were colluding with Russia.  The civil RICO suit sought $70 million dollars in damages.

Judge John Middlebrook of the Southern District of Florida dismissed the suit with prejudice in September of last year.  The sanctions were imposed Thursday.  He wrote in the first paragraph of his order:

This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim.

Thirty-one individuals and entities were needlessly harmed in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative. A continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by Mr. Trump and his lawyers undermines the rule of law, portrays judges as partisans, and diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm.

US Person could not have said it better himself.  Beginning on page 21 of his order on sanctions, Judge Middlebrook discusses Trumpilini's previous pattern of abuse of process.  The question is, why did it take so long for his sociopathic behavior to be recognized by the bench and bar?  Ever since Trump tutored at the knee of Roy Cohen, he has used legal process as a weapon against his enemies. Habba appears to be filling the role previously performed by Cohen, and lately Rudy Guiliani and Sidney Powell.  She has aggressively defended Trump in litigation, including the Mar-a-Lago Papers case, and has appeared on television in his behalf.  If she thinks the publicity will do her Bedminister practice good, US Person thinks she is mistaken.  According to the Daily Beast, "she is the one Trump lawyer the rest of the Trump legal team loathes."   Meanwhile™:

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