Disgraced former President Trump’s legal team are freaking the fuck out in court filings in two separate federal court jurisdictions this week. Emphasis on federal because shit is obviously also going haywire for him at the state level. In fact we were working on this story Tuesday when the news of the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling forced an immediate detour into that shitshow.

Now for those other shitshows: First off in New York City the Daily Beast reports that Donald’s defense team in next month’s damages-only defamation trial brought by writer EJ Carroll are desperately trying to block expert witness Ashlee Humphreys, a Northwestern University professor who specializes in analyzing social media trends. That may not sound like it means much until you learn Humphreys testified to the jury in a DC federal court last week for former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss in their damages-only defamation case against alcoholic shitbrain Rudy Giuliani. Specifically about her calculations on how much the two should be awarded, which was $32 million. Then the jury added another $116 million on top of that. Humphreys has already crunched the numbers and found that Trump should owe $21 million to Carroll, which is going to be the jury’s floor to add likely tens of millions more. “This court should simply exclude Dr Humphreys’ testimony altogether,” one of the fat bastard’s lawyers wrote in a filing.

Meanwhile in the DC criminal case, Trump’s lawyers accused Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith of “improperly and unlawfully” attempting “to advance this case by serving thousands of pages of additional discovery, as well as a purported ‘Draft Exhibit List.’ These actions, the prosecution admits, are calculated to ‘help ensure that [a potential] trial proceeds promptly if and when the mandate returns.’ Such maneuvers are exactly what the Stay Order forbids, and impose a significant and prohibited burden on President Trump… as stated in President Trump’s letter response, neither he nor counsel will review the prosecution’s unlawful productions until and unless the Court lifts the stay order,” as if it wasn’t already clear that they really don’t want this trial to happen. So much so that they don’t even want the evidence in hand when they’re going to need it.