As Team Trump's lawyers suffer more losses, it’s tempting to think the streak reflects bad luck. But as stevebenen writes, luck is irrelevant: The former president and his team are losing because they’re filing bad cases backed by bad arguments.
Making matters quite a bit worse is the unavoidable fact that the former president’s lawyers keep losing. Take this week, for example.
Team Trump begged the Georgia Supreme Court to derail a looming indictment from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, claiming that the ongoing investigation risked violating his “fundamental constitutional rights.”Roughly 48 hours later, the former president’s legal team suffered another setback. ReutersA federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury found the former U.S. president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E.
, “The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’” Kaplan added, “Mr. Trump’s attempt to minimize the sexual abuse finding as perhaps resting on nothing more than groping of Ms. Carroll’s breasts through her clothing is frivolous.” He went on to conclude that a jury clearly found that the former president had “ ‘raped’ her in the sense of that term broader than the New York Penal Law definition.”
That was this morning. This afternoon, Trump’s quest to move his Manhattan hush money prosecution from state to federal court, which my MSNBC colleague Jordan Rubin
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