Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller was quick to note that President Donald Trump dumped his latest “ridiculous lawsuit” against a media company in a very friendly place.
“Interestingly, this was filed in the federal court for the southern district of Florida,” said Miller. “Does that ring a bell with anybody? Now why might he be doing it there?”
Trump announced his suit against Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, over the publication of a story alleging he sent a “bawdy” birthday letter in 2003 to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019.
“The Wall Street Journal printed a fake letter, supposedly to Epstein,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “These are not my words, not the way I talk.”
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“Also, I don’t draw pictures,” he claimed, in defiance of evidence.
Trump is asking for $10 million, and Miller says if any court gives his case a generous boost it will be the court he chose to send it to.
“Here’s an idea. You know Aileen Cannon? The judge that made life as easy a possible for Donald Trump when he was being investigated and indicted for mishandling classified information? Yeah, the Southern District of Florida is Cannon’s district.”
Critics say Cannon made a series of controversial decisions and ultimately dismissed the indictment by ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
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Prior to the dismissal, Cannon suggested that some White House files could be permanently withheld from criminal investigators in the Justice Department under executive privilege. She also called for jury instructions favorable to Trump early in the case and she stalled the case until Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s lone concurrence in the presidential immunity case called into question whether Smith’s appointment was legal—after which she quickly threw out the indictment on the same grounds.
“At every possible opportunity, Judge Cannon has demonstrated her apparent bias in favor of Donald Trump,” said CREW President Noah Bookbinder. “She has at every stage made this case more difficult than the law mandated, and she then dismissed it on largely unprecedented grounds, delivering a significant win to Trump.”
“Obviously, we’re doing some judge shopping here,” Miller said.
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