A stunning new report by Bloomberg reveals several troubling indications that, despite ostensibly possessing the credentials and licensing necessary to practice law on behalf of their client, convicted felon President Trump’s legal team may not actually understand how civil litigation works.
In fact saying “new report” may even be underselling the accessibility of the implication as the headline upfront states “Trump Says Murdoch Can’t Prove Epstein Birthday Note Is Real” with the lede making it clear that this was in the context of a court filing in the $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against the nonagenarian media tycoon and his companies after the Wall Street Journal in July reported that Donald had written now-dead sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card framed by a crude sketch of a young teen girl’s body, later printed in full by the Journal.
Such an assertion made in court speaks to difficulty maintaining the tedious sarcasm here because holy fucking shit even a college dropout understands that the burden of proof is not on the defendant in ANY courtroom ESPECIALLY when it’s unfalsifiable. And even if it was the “can’t prove that it’s real” would still be meaningless because the lawsuit isn’t about the authenticity of the letter but whether the reporters and editors at the Journal had knowingly and maliciously propagated falsehoods about its provenance in their initial story that said the information was secondhand.
And yet Trump lawyer Michael Brito on Monday seriously told the court “On the contrary, the defendants’ reliance on a purported letter released over a month after the complaint was filed proves that defendants did not actually possess, or even review, any purported letter before publishing the false and defamatory article,” in response to Team Murdoch’s motion to dismiss.
It’s not clear when Michael Brito will be appointed US Attorney for the District of Delaware. Or what other district he might be appointed to. There is no “if” in that. He’s got the right stuff for the job.