Trump Sues Journalist For Dumbest Possible Reason

Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against legendary journalist Bob Woodward over the recorded interviews that he released that were recorded as part of his research for his book "Rage." But Trump isn't suing for defamation or for anything that he usually sues for, this time he's suing for copyright infringement for the release of the tapes with Trump's name on them. This is a new low, even for Trump's legal filings, and Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why it is even weirder than you would think.

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On Monday, Donald Trump filed yet another lawsuit this time against legendary journalist Bob Woodward. But this isn't your typical lawsuit from Donald Trump. See, a couple months ago in the runup to the release of his new book called Rage Woodward released a series of taped interviews that he had done with Donald Trump that Donald Trump approved of. They were between 2019 and 2020. Woodward released these as part of the hype for his book, and that that's what Trump is suing about. It's not because he released the tape or because there was a confidentiality agreement, or because he's alleging defamation. No, Trump is suing Woodward for nearly 50 million alleging that Woodward committed copyright violation by using Trump's name.

The lawsuit is, uh, uh, explicitly seeking 48 million in damages from both Woodward and his publisher, Simon and Schuster. So this seems like another one of Donald Trump's, you know, petty little stupid lawsuits that typically would get laughed outta court, right? Well, that's why the second part of this story is so important. See, Donald Trump didn't file this in New York where Simon Schuster is located. He didn't file it in dc, which is, I believe, where Bob Woodward is located. Um, he didn't even file it down in South Florida where Trump himself is located. Trump filed this lawsuit across the street from me at a federal courthouse in downtown Pensacola, Florida, like Pensacola of all the places in Florida, which obviously I am not in Pensacola right now. I am on vacation, which is a shame because I really would've loved to have done this video from the studio where you could literally throw a rock out the window and hit the courthouse where Trump had his people file this lawsuit on Monday.

That would've been beautiful. However, why Pensacola? Because as I've repeatedly told y'all, that is the reddest part of the state of Florida, that whole area, not necessarily Pensacola, but the entire first district, you know, the one where Matt Gates represents most conservative area in the state. It has been solidly voting for Republicans since the year 1960. That was actually the last time they voted for a demo Democrat. That area went for, uh, Kennedy. Ever since then, we've had nothing but Republican judges. We've had nothing but republican city councils, Republican mayors, republican representatives, Republican state reps, Republican state senators. It's a red area. So what Trump did was he went forum shopping and he thought, you know what? Last time I filed one down here in South Florida,

Uh, I got sanctioned, my lawyers got sanctioned. So where in Florida can I file this, where I can find the friendliest judges? And he picked right there downtown Pensacola, Florida, in that federal courthouse. And they're probably gonna be a little bit nicer to him than, uh, judge Middlebrooks has down there in South Florida. But that still doesn't mean this lawsuit is literally going to go anywhere because in order for Trump to have any legal claim whatsoever, he would be able to claim any content created anywhere, whether it's YouTube or, uh, newspaper or you know, uh, cable news. Anywhere that used his name, he could sue them for copyright infringement. So I don't think this is gonna go anywhere. Let's hope it doesn't, because if it does, then that pretty much means Trump will own all of the media in the country at that point.