"All for want of a nail."Donald Trump’s campaign wants Omarosa Manigault Newman to pay up for penning an incriminating tell-all book about the president in 2018.
— POLITICO (@politico) October 20, 2020
But it’s the Trump campaign that hasn’t paid its bills. https://t.co/txJVNawbIf
The still prevailing political narrative is that Trump will go to the Supreme Court where ACB will personally coronate him and the Republic will die. I exaggerate only slightly. There’s just one problem with that scenario: Trump needs lawyers to do it, and Trump is running out of money.
The campaign is helping fight accusations Trump harassed and sexually assaulted women. It’s helping keep documents about his business deals hidden. Other cases are proactive, such as attempts to enforce nondisclosure agreements and to punish media companies the campaign accuses of defamation. And it is responding to lawsuits from people who say they were assaulted at Trump events, including one from a Missouri man who claimed he was arrested after laughing at a MAGA rally.Taken together, the cases reflect the legal morass the Trump campaign will face, win or lose, after Nov. 3.“Even if he loses the election, very little actually ends once Trump leaves the White House in January 2021,” said Bradley Moss, a Washington lawyer whose firm represented former White House aide Cliff Sims, who was the target of a Trump campaign suit for violating a nondisclosure agreement when he published his own White House memoir.“Litigation Trump has personally brought under his own name or through the campaign, whether it be protecting his tax returns or suing Omarosa, will continue for however long there is money to pay the lawyers,” Moss added.
Trump is not paying the arbitrator in the Manigault (remember her?) case he brought. If the bills go unpaid, the case could be dismissed. Trump is paying lawyers through his campaign (maybe where some of that $1 billion went?). As the money runs out, who pays for all those lawsuits?
Already, the Trump campaign has spent millions of dollars on completed legal work, including helping defend Trump against allegations he worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election and on his impeachment trial, during which he was accused of pressuring Ukraine’s president to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter.The campaign has also teamed up with the Republican National Committee on more than 40 lawsuits challenging voting rules in states across the country. An RNC official said the official Republican Party is not involved in any non-voting cases.“We anticipate most of these will be moot after the election, although a few may not be, and we will continue to litigate as necessary,” the official said.
So after the election, who pays for all those lawsuits claiming voter fraud that are going to wind up in the Supreme Court? Because they aren't going to get there with Trump acting pro se.
"Slow on the leash,
Pallid the leash men!"
If he loses big, losing the Senate for the R-Fs they'll dump him. I hope that either the officials in NY or the Federal government restrain him or the rest of the crooks from fleeing the country.
ReplyDeleteI want Barr to be on the hook for the millions he illegally spent turning the DoJ into Trump's law firm. I want him to have to pay up from jail and out of work because he's been disbarred. I want the corrupt legal system and legal profession to have reform forced on it because if there's one thing obvious from the way Barr, Mueller, Rosenstein acted - and it didn't start four years ago - it's clear that they're entirely too comfortable with a level of un-illegalized corruption for it to be safe.