A British judge on Thursday tossed disgraced former President Trump’s lawsuit against former MI6 spy Christopher Steele and his firm Orbis Intelligence over the infamous 2016 dossier of “raw intel” that alleged, among other shit, that in 2013 then-future failed president had been secretly recorded fondling himself in a Moscow hotel room while hookers sent by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s regime peed on the bed and there was a “well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership,” with the aim of destabilizing the US politically.

Which means that, by the standards set by MAGA propagandists and trolls, all of the allegations over Trump’s Kremlin connections have now been proven to be true since a lawsuit alleging they were false was dismissed. It doesn’t matter that it wasn’t a factual finding and the case was tossed simply because, as Judge Karen Steyn ruled, Trump had “chosen to allow many years to elapse – without any attempt to vindicate his reputation in this jurisdiction,” since the dossier surfaced in 2017.

Sorry fanboys, we didn’t make the MAGA internet’s rules on burden of proof. You did. If Ray Epps getting no jail time for helping incite the other “tourists” at the Capitol on January 6th means he’s a CIA agent who was working a “psy op” to entrap Trump supporters, then we can apply the same confirmation bias to declare that the “Russia Russia Russia hoax” is actually not a hoax.

In all seriousness though: We don’t know how British civil law procedure works but we would imagine that it’s not all that different from the US. Thus at some point Trump would have had to sit for a deposition if he really wanted to take down Steele for having written a “wholly untrue” oppo report as Trump’s complaint alleged. It is extremely hard to see how Trump going under oath to deny all of the dossier’s allegations would have ended well for him. This judge probably just did him a favor.