A Federal Judge Scolded Trump’s Inept Florida Attorneys. Judge Tells Them To File A Less Ridiculous Complaint In Trump’s NY Times Lawsuit

Donald Trump had another one of his autistic trust fund baby meltdowns a few weeks ago. Why? He didn’t like what the New York Times said about him. So in his rampage, the threatened to sue The New York Times. As it turns out, he wasn’t kidding. So, last week two of Trump’s inept Florida attorneys, Alejandro Brito and Daniel Zachary Epstein filed a $15 billion civil suit against the newspaper. Trump claims the Times had defamed him and tried to ruin his reputation.

Four days later, a federal judge rejected the case — but not on the merits. Reuters reported:

Judge Steven D. Merryday gave Trump’s inept lawyers 28 days to file an amended complaint.

Trump’s Inept Florida Attorneys Irritate Judge Merryday

In other words, the federal judge didn’t conclude that the case was meritless. He concluded that the actual court filing was utter nonsense.

Merryday told Trump’s inept Florida attorneys to file a less silly document.

The judge’s reaction was understandable. The White House’s unprecedented offensive against the free press and the absurd dollar amount. Oh, and let’s not forget that the newspaper doesn’t appear to have done anything wrong. On top of all that, the unsettling frequency with which Trump files civil suits that seem awfully frivolous and vexatious. The actual legal document filed with the federal court in Florida was 85-pages of horseshit.

The complaint included random Trump-related images that seemed to have been included for no apparent reason. It described in unnecessary detail assorted television and film appearances the president from his days involved in beauty pageants.

Trump’s lawyers actually wrote in the court filing:

“The Apprentice represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the zeitgeist of our time.”

The lawsuit is sounds like one of Trump’s late night Trump Truth Social post.

Brito and Epstein’s complaint didn’t amuse Judge Merryday. Judges tend to prefer serious legal documents to self-indulgent public-relations presentations. In fact, Merryday’s smackdown was so brutal that the judge called Trump’s court filing “essentially garbage.”

Judge Merryday’s disdain for Trump’s inept attorneys also showed his order. He wrote:

“As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary. A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally or the functional equivalent of the Hyde Park Speakers’ Corner.”

Merryday’s smackdown went even further in his order:

“A complaint is a mechanism to fairly, precisely, directly, soberly, and economically inform the defendants — in a professionally constrained manner consistent with the dignity of the adversarial process in an Article III court of the United States — of the nature and content of the claims. A complaint is a short, plain, direct statement of allegations of fact sufficient to create a facially plausible claim for relief and sufficient to permit the formulation of an informed response. Although lawyers receive a modicum of expressive latitude in pleading the claim of a client, the complaint in this action extends far beyond the outer bound of that latitude.”

Judge Merryday did proceeded to give Trump’s lawyers four weeks to file a more “dignified” complaint. Will Trump have a online conniption fit directed at the GOP appointed judge? 

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