Gleeful Nicolle Wallace details Trump's 'humiliating' day in court: 'Hits keep coming'

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This made me smile

President Donald Trump has been having a very bad day in court — and MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace barely managed to contain her glee reporting on his losses.

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-losses-2676973997/

President Donald Trump has been having a very bad day in court — and MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace barely managed to contain her glee reporting on his losses.

"The legal hits keep coming," said Wallace. "Today, earlier, a federal judge out of Virginia ruled that DOJ's so-called 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' must freeze and that no money can be disbursed until she hears a motion challenging the fund's very existence."

Then, she noted, just hours later, a different federal judge "permanently blocked Trump from adding his name to the Kennedy Center," demanding that any name other than Kennedy be removed from the signage and promotional material within two weeks, and putting the planned two-year renovation on hold as well.

Wallace then turned to her panel, focusing on New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush. "There's the humiliating aspect to these stories for these came up ... there's all of the losing. I mean, what is left in terms of legal acumen in the Department of Justice if they can't win a case?"

Thrush argued that, privately, even a lot of people in the Trump administration were hoping for the "weaponization" slush fund to get killed in court.

"There are people, political appointees in the Justice Department and in the White House who are really, really happy, or would be very happy, if this thing died a quiet judicial death so that they were not forced to defend it" — especially considering Senate Republicans who feel "newly liberated from Donald Trump" are "antithetical" to the plan and had been drafting legislation to stop it.

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1. Just don't say there's going to be so much Trmp losing that we're gonna get sick of Trmp losing.

I will never get sick of Trmp losing, and know it's going to continue long after he's dead, until his name is considered the worst profanity that can be uttered.

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2. MaddowBlog-Trump to abandon $1.776 billion compensation fund amid bipartisan backlash, source says

The president was left with a choice: Keep fighting an uphill battle or back down from a fight he was likely to lose. He apparently went with the latter.

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Trump to abandon .776 billion compensation fund amid bipartisan backlash, source says

The president was left with a choice: Keep fighting an uphill battle or back down from a fight he was likely to lose. He apparently went with the latter.

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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-to-drop-anti-weaponization-fund

A few days after the Trump administration unveiled its $1.776 billion compensation fund, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill to brief Senate Republicans on the details and answer their questions. He likely expected some modest pushback, since a handful of GOP senators had already gone on record announcing their opposition to what they described as a “slush fund.”

But Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer probably wasn’t prepared for the ferocity of the response from those in attendance. In fact, we don’t even have to speculate based on leaks from unnamed officials: Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said on his podcast that his Senate colleagues “screamed” at Blanche, as part of “one of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.”

“Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz added. “My guess is there [were] probably 45 senators in the room; at least half of them were blasting the attorney general, and they were pissed.”....

The president was left with a choice: Keep fighting an uphill battle for a brazenly corrupt scheme or back down from a fight he was likely to lose. He apparently went with the latter.....

By any fair measure, the fund never should’ve existed in the first place, and many legal scholars characterized it as the single most corrupt step ever taken by an American president. The initiative began with an outlandish $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against his own administration over the leak of his tax returns during his first term, which he dropped as part of an agreement to create a $1.776 billion fund that would compensate “victims” of the Biden administration, notwithstanding the inconvenient fact that Republicans have never been able to identify any actual, legitimate victims.

There are some key questions that have not yet been answered. For example, the day after the administration announced the fund, Blanche unveiled an addendum of sorts, which said the Internal Revenue Service would no longer scrutinize past or present alleged tax irregularities surrounding the president, his family, and his controversial businesses. The development, among other things, freed Trump from having to worry about a potential $100 million penalty.

Whether this arrangement remains intact as the White House backs off from the existence of the fund remains unclear.

We had two different courts challenge this "fund" as to whether it was a "fraud on the court." The DOJ was not up to litigating these issues and so trump backed down