Griters gonna grift

Trump announces new lawsuit

Flailing, flaccid, and utterly ridiculous.

Just off the top of my head, that’s what comes to mind, when hearing of former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to stave off his imminent ruin. In fact, I can’t imagine how he got his legal team to take part in this maniacal farce. What do they hope to accomplish?

To clarify, His Orangeness went on one of his increasingly unhinged rants on Monday, announcing that he would be suing various news agencies, such as CNN, as well as the January 6th Committee, basically for telling the truth about the 2020 election, and not giving oxygen to his claims of voter fraud.

We can put aside, for the moment, that there have been various attempts, following the 2020 election, to prove voter fraud. Nothing has been proven, and only the fever dreams of Trump’s gaudy band of clingers and fellow grifters have continued to claim otherwise. Dozens of lawsuits have already been brought by Trump’s team, across the country. Each one has been slapped down in every court where heard.

That sure knowledge makes his latest an act of sheer futility. Yet, he persists:

“In the coming weeks and months we will also be filing lawsuits against a large number of other Fake News Media Companies for their lies, defamation, and wrongdoing, including as it pertains to ‘The Big Lie,’ that they used so often in reference to their disinformation attack on Presidential Election of 2020,” Trump wrote in his statement.

In the lawsuit filed against CNN on Monday, Trump’s attorneys claimed the network “has sought to use its massive influence — purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source — to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for ‘[getting] Trump out’ in the 2020 presidential election.”

Except there was no disinformation attack (unless you count from the Trump camp). News outlets simply report the news. They don’t make it. And yes, it is fair to question the partisan angle that any news agency employs, when giving the news. That doesn’t, however, change the facts of what is being reported, especially when those facts are so black-and-white.

Trump lost the 2020 election.

My apologies to my colleagues here at The Racket if promoting this fact gets us sued by the gilded toad.

While attacking the January 6th Committee, Trump further claims that he took actions to ensure the safety of the election, as well as events beyond. He claims this, when there is no evidence that he made any attempts to keep the elections safe, and even less that he tried to restrain his brutish mob on January 6, 2021. All reports, in fact, are to the contrary. He not only did not try to keep them calm but went out of his way to agitate them and send them on a mission of disrupting a Constitutional process.  

This he did for his own power, his own glory, and he has done nothing but throw gasoline on the fire of his cult’s ardor, ever since that day.

“The Unselect Committee has refused to acknowledge, as was done by the Biden Inspector General at the Department of Defense, and others, that days ahead of January 6th, I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout the Country,” Trump added.

Truly, if the man was rendered incapable of speech, unless what he said was absolute truth, we’d never hear from him, again.

Trump is seeking nearly $500 million in punitive damages from CNN and promises other news outlets will be added to the suit.

Is there any question that this is a waste of the courts’ time? How quickly do you think it will be thrown out?

I’m guessing it dies a quick death on the courtroom floor, but Trump and his lawyers know that. This is a distraction. He must seem like a “fighter” to the rubes that still fly Trump flags in their yards and go to his cult rallies. He must make them believe that when they let their electricity bill money go to his coffers, it’s because he’s fighting for them, and not just pursuing an endless grift.

Brace yourselves for the inevitable fund-raising emails, folks. They’re coming.