« This was not a good night for the president. Everything he touched was a loser. Trump hasn’t been this embarrassed since he found out there was a Donald Trump Jr.. »
— Jimmy Kimmel on so much losing for Trump in Tuesday's elections. From Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday.
Trump and his minions on Capitol Hill are apparently not tired of losing. Their latest gambit in the MAGA government shutdown is to make it more difficult for Americans to travel by air.
Trump Shutdown Hits 40 Major Airports—Just in Time for Thanksgiving
Look at the good side. At least you'll have an excuse to avoid having Thanksgiving with your stupid unvaccinated MAGA cousins.
The former president sometimes called "Teflon Don" is learning that sometimes, the subpoenas do stick.
SO MUCH LOSING!
When Donald Trump isn’t busy dining with Nazis or plotting to terminate the US Constitution, he gets to watch his legal team suffer setbacks.
In recent months, former President Donald Trump and his allies have suffered a string of defeats in court as they’ve tried to resist or impede criminal investigations into his conduct.
The latest example was Trump’s unsuccessful bid to block testimony from his former White House lawyers before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election subversion. The attorneys, Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin, appeared before the DC-based grand jury on Friday.
The night before, a federal appeals court tossed out the special master review that was holding up parts of the criminal probe into government documents that were taken from his White House to Mar-a-Lago.
The Trump-world losing streak reflects the deference that courts tend to give to criminal investigations – particularly when the probes that have not yet brought charges. Courts have shown far less tolerance for legal delay tactics in cases concerning criminal probes.
His setbacks are at both the state and federal level.
Many of the disputes over the subpoenas are playing out in state courts across the country based on where the witnesses in question now reside. Those courts often made the determination that the witnesses are “necessary and material” to the investigation, while pointing to the approvals the subpoenas got from the judge in Georgia who is supervising the Fulton County grand jury.
Trump has tried to claim that being a former president gives him special standing. The courts aren’t buying that.
As if Trump were not in enough trouble, a New York law just went into effect which permits adult victims of previous sexual abuse to sue their attackers.
E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation as lookback window for adult sex abuse survivors’ suits opens in New York
With this sort of luck, Trump may be wondering if his only way out is to defect to Russia or North Korea.
