Welp, when Donald Trump starts citing reports in the Washington Post and the New York Times–the cornerstones of the Fake News he so frequently rails against–in his pre-Thanksgiving court documents for his DC federal trial as accurate representations of fact, you know we’re in for some fun discussions on Thanksgiving:  “The Fake News, you say, Uncle Chad?  Donald Trump just said in court the Washington Post and New York Times are fair and accurate.  So are you wrong, or is Trump?  Now pass the yams.”

If the “career prosecutors” in this case wanted to dispute the content of those reports, there was a straightforward way to do so: submit declarations by firsthand witnesses denying the operative facts under oath. If, for example, the New York Times falsely reported that President Biden told others that President Trump “should be prosecuted,” then why not give the Court and the public peace of mind through the submission of competent evidence, rather than a blustering brief that is full of venom but deflects on the core facts?

The answer is simple. The media reports are accurate. Thus, despite all of the Special Counsel’s self-aggrandizing comments about the supposedly unprecedented nature of his manufactured allegations against President Trump, the truly unprecedented aspect of this case is that a sitting president successfully urged the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to try to take down his chief political rival and, now, the leading candidate to be the next president. […]