Judge slaps sanctions on Trump lawyers for 'frivolous' Clinton
lawsuit

The judge said Trump's lawyers pressed on with claims that were
farcical or false, even after being put on notice that they were
erroneous.
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Middlebrooks ordered the attorneys to pay $50,000 to the court and
more than $16,000 in legal fees to Charles Dolan, one of the
defendants, who initiated the sanctions proceedings against Trump's
attorneys. The attorneys ordered to pay the sanctions costs include
one of the most prominent members of Trump's current coterie of
lawyers, Alina Habba, as well as his lead local counsel in the Clinton
suit, Peter Ticktin, and two others: Michael Madaio and Jamie Sasson.
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Trump is appealing the judge's decision to toss the suit out. His
opening brief at the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is
due later this month.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/10/trump-lawyers-clinton-lawsuit-00066381

Dragging out court proceedings is what Trump has done for years.

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On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:37:50 -0600
JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Judge slaps sanctions on Trump lawyers for 'frivolous' Clinton
lawsuit

The judge said Trump's lawyers pressed on with claims that were
farcical or false, even after being put on notice that they were
erroneous.

They should lose their licenses to practice. Enough bullshit.

Dragging out court proceedings is what Trump has done for years.

Hoo boy, he's got it to an art form. There's always one more appeal,
one more refusal, one more blockage, one more court order.

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On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 05:57:30 -0500, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

Dragging out court proceedings is what Trump has done for years.

Hoo boy, he's got it to an art form. There's always one more appeal,
one more refusal, one more blockage, one more court order.

Why GOP is paying for his legal expenses is beyond me.


How Trump's legal expenses consumed GOP donor money
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The group has contributed about $8.4 million so far directly to
Republican campaigns and committees, while devoting $7 million to
Trump's lawyers and another $2 million to the nonprofits, which employ
former members of his administration, including former White House
chief of staff Mark Meadows. Legal fees are expected to climb, Trump
advisers say, as he employs a growing retinue of lawyers to fend off
federal, state and county-level investigations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/trump-legal-fees-donor-funds-rnc/

And then "his" suckers and losers kept pissing away their dollars..



But these people also said his PAC's incessant appeals over email and
text message have contributed to burnout among small-dollar donors who
might otherwise send more of their disposable income to competitive
races. Those donors, said one GOP fundraiser, are being "told they're
pitching in for a fight against Democrats" but are instead "helping
Trump fight off his legal problems." Some Trump small-dollar donors
have reached out to the former president's office to say they'd like
to give more but cannot afford it after receiving so many requests.

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On 2022-11-12, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 05:57:30 -0500, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
How Trump's legal expenses consumed GOP donor money
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But these people also said his PAC's incessant appeals over email and
text message have contributed to burnout among small-dollar donors who
might otherwise send more of their disposable income to competitive
races. Those donors, said one GOP fundraiser, are being "told they're pitching in for a fight against Democrats" but are instead "helping
Trump fight off his legal problems." Some Trump small-dollar donors
have reached out to the former president's office to say they'd like
to give more but cannot afford it after receiving so many requests.

Pretty generous of those small donors, since the GOP spends all its
waking energy cooking up new schemes to drop taxes for the wealthy,
while getting the poor to stump up their pocket change to keep Trump out
of jail.

Wake up people. Or don't, I don't give a shit. Seems like small donors running out of steam and Trump running out of funds to fight this stupid bullshit is a win for the nation.

"Fight against the Democrats" = Putin's entry into Ukraine to "rid the
country of Nazis." How are both those fights going, by the way?

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On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:43:21 +0000, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

Pretty generous of those small donors...
Wake up people.

In regards to blue collar people chipping in to Trump's and GOP's war
chests, I suspect most all are politically clueless.

Republicans tend to suggest they create jobs, but I suspect if this
was analyzed, its fiction mostly. For instance, when Reagan was
elected, the computer industry was begriming. During his office time,
the IBM PC Clones came along, which greatly accelerated this industry.

In farming industry, higher volume equipment sales favor good harvests
and higher product prices. Weather conditions are a big factor, and
I'm not aware of Republican "rain makers."

There are blue collar people who can't sort the wheat from the chaff
on these economic and weather factors. But, they are good at sucking
up Republican's "we create jobs's" BS.


Jul 24, 2012: About that GOP "Jobs plan"
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But about that "jobs plan." As the Huffington Post reports today:
Republican Jobs Bills Won't Actually Create Jobs, Say Economists https://www.majorityleader.gov/content/about-gop-jobs-plan

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