The legal losses keep piling up for the Malignant Loser, perhaps because he has no legal legs to stand on.
We recently noted the decision by a federal judge to deny the Malignant Loser's request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case of E. Jean Carroll, but it bears repeating:
A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump's request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case brought by E. Jean Carroll that resulted in a $5 million damage award.
Trump had sought a new trial after a New York jury in May found him liable for sexually assaulting the former Elle magazine columnist in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s, then defaming her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie."
Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the request, saying, "The jury in this case did not reach 'a seriously erroneous result.'"
"Its verdict is not 'a miscarriage of justice,'" the judge said in his ruling.
"Now that the court has denied Trump's motion for a new trial or to decrease the amount of the verdict, E. Jean Carroll looks forward to receiving the $5 million in damages that the jury awarded her," Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement...
We look forward to her receiving these damages, too (and for additional, substantial punitive damages based on the Malignant Loser's continuing to defame her post- verdict).
Wednesday was also a bad day in the case of falsifying of business records to cover up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels:
A federal judge on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush money payments case from New York state court to a federal venue.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein's ruling means the case will stay in Manhattan criminal court, where District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office is prosecuting Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Trump, who has pleaded not guilty, argued that the payments were connected to his duties as president and that the case should therefore be heard in federal court. Hellerstein rejected that argument.
"Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged by the Indictment is for or relating to any act performed by or for the President under color of the official acts of a President. Trump also has failed to show that he has a colorable federal defense to the Indictment," he wrote in a 25-page ruling.
A spokesperson for Bragg said: “We are very pleased with the federal court’s decision and look forward to proceeding in New York State Supreme Court.”...
Of course, the maneuvering here and elsewhere is all intended to move cases into federal courts where he thinks he'll be able to pardon himself if he's elected in 2024.
Even his favorite judge, Aileen "Loose" Cannon, appeared skeptical of his argument that the classified documents case should be moved until after the 2024 election (see paragraph above). She'll be ruling on timing of that trial soon.
The end of the week may also bring an indictment in the Special Counsel's January 6 coup plot investigation, as the Malignant Loser has already received his target letter and isn't expected to appear before the grand jury today as offered. The statutes cited in the target letter involve conspiracy to defraud the United States, deprivation of rights under color of law, and tampering with victims, witnesses or informants. And the legal peril, of course, isn't limited to the Special Counsel's investigation, or just to the Malignant Loser:
Trump disclosed on Tuesday he had been named as a target in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of election interference. Hours later, the attorney general of Michigan announced she had issued forgery charges against 16 Trump supporters who had posed as the state’s presidential electors. A county prosecutor in Georgia is preparing to present a sweeping case to a grand jury, with indictments possible within weeks. And the attorney general of Arizona in recent months has ramped up a probe into attempts to undermine the 2020 results in that state.
Say it again: lock him up!!
(Photo: It's getting hot in here! / Leah Millis, Reuters)
