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context: More 'winning', does he ever get tired of all these rejects. It's been 3 years, this maniac needs to be behind bars. >
  
  All I have to say is what a time to be a lawyer, imagine the tsunami of billable hours there are in the myriad of Trump suits.  Wonder if he will pay them. >
  
  Supposedly up until the point he came out as a candidate for president all of his legal bills were being picked up by the RNC. Not sure if that includes legal bills such as these or not. >
  
  I wonder if many of these hasty and frivolous media and political suits were actually him trying to head off prosecution for fundraising fraud and not spending 95% of the money. 
  IIRC in the J6 hearings Liz Cheney said Trump raised something like 150-200 million in a matter of a few short weeks. Who know how much he’s accumulated over two years. >
  
  I don't know for sure but if I had to bet I would guess no. 
  His defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post in 2020 was one in a series of frivolous defamation lawsuits filed at that time. He also sued the NYTIMES and CNN in that particular time period in 2020. The lawsuits were widely dismissed as frivolous back then even by conservative commentators. Even the right wing magazine National Review said they did not have much chance if success and seemed to be a political stunt. 
  I think the National Review was correct in viewing them as political stunts. One thing to remember is that Trump had long made the press a political enemy to his voters. I think these lawsuits should be viewed through that lens. He had long told his voters that the media was their enemy, and portrayed them in dark terms. I think these lawsuits were never meant to succeed but to gin up his base. They made headlines, and his lawyers appeared on Fox News primetime opinion shows. These lawsuits allowed Trump to tell his base that he is standing up to the media, and bolster his image as a fighter. Its a political gambit. >
  
  Womp womp.
  
  A defamation lawsuit by President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign against the Washington Post was dismissed by a federal judge.
  US District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington ruled Friday that the campaign failed to meet the legal standards for defamation claims over the two articles at issue in the March 2020 suit. One was about the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the other was about Trump’s 2020 campaign strategy.
  Contreras said the campaign failed to show the writer of the Mueller piece acted with “actual malice.” General allegations of political bias weren’t enough, and there wasn’t evidence the writer knowingly or recklessly published false information, the judge wrote.
  
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  General allegations of political bias weren’t enough...
  
  
  Imagine if they were, though; Fox News would be sued into oblivion. >
  
  I sincerely hope, Dominion and Smartmatic will be doing that. >
  
  Just like 200+ previous defamation and libel suits. The guy's a loser. Undeniably. >
  
  Poor trumpy.  Hard to win in court with no facts on your side.  Much different than keeping your drooling supporters well watered...... >
  
  I wish I had 10% of the money Trump has spent on lawyers over the years. Even just the ones he’s actually paid… >
  
  Will the WaPo get any compensation back from Trump for their costs to defend themselves from the frivolous lawsuit?