Trump’s Wall Street Journal Lawsuit Could Ruin His Life

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Donald Trump’s error-filled, $10 billion lawsuit against News Corp, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch might be the dumbest move he’s ever made, and it has the potential to ruin his entire life. Not only does Trump have to worry about the discovery portion of the suit, but he also has to worry about the fact that he filed it in Florida in violation of Florida’s own laws. On top of that, he has also effectively muzzled his largest supporters who now can’t talk about the story. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

As everybody knows at this point, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal News Corps, and of course News Corps and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch on Friday evening, roughly 24 hours after the Wall Street Journal posted their story about how Trump sent a lovely birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein back in, uh, 2003. And he drew him an obscene picture, which Trump and his family have come out and said, this guy never doodles. And then of course, all the information came out about how Donald Trump even mentioned once that he donates one to two doodles per year for auctions, for charities. And there's many, many other instances of Donald Trump doing doodles. So that defense fell apart absolutely immediately. But that doesn't matter because Donald Trump still filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch and News Corps, which might end up ruining his life.

And there's several reasons for this. First and foremost, the lawsuit itself was filled with errors like spelling errors, grammatical errors, not to mention the fact that one of their arguments, one of their legal arguments was that, and this is written in the brief, they claimed the Wall Street Journal said this was an exclusive, but then they shared it with everybody because the lawyers Trump hired don't know what exclusive means. It doesn't mean that the Wall Street Journal wasn't gonna share it, like, oh, this is just exclusive for the people that work here. It meant the Wall Street Journal was the only one who had this material. It was exclusive to the outlet, and they published it. Like you can't be, like they said it was exclusive, but didn't they share it with everybody by printing the story? Like yeah, but that's, that's not what exclusive means.

So right off the bat, the legal arguments don't even make any sense. And it hinges upon Trump's lawyers not understanding what words mean. But secondly, they filed it in the Southern district of Florida hoping to get Judge Eileen Cannon. Now, there's multiple problems with that. First and foremost, news Corps, Rupert Murdoch, uh, wall Street Journal, and even Donald Trump, plaintiff, none of them live there. None of them are based out of there. So you can't just pick a random district in the country to file a lawsuit because you're hoping to get a judge that's friendly to you. Trump does not live at Mar-a-Lago right now, folks, his legal address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. So you either file the lawsuit in Washington DC or you file it in New York where News Corps and the Wall Street Journal are based. You do not get to travel to the other end of the country down to South Florida and file it there.

And even if you were allowed to do that, you're not allowed to do it because in the state of Florida, you're required to give a party five days notice before you can legally file a defamation, slander, liable lawsuit against them. And yes, there have been multiple defamation lawsuits in Florida that have been immediately dismissed due to the fact, including up to, I think like less than 12 months ago. A big high profile one was dismissed because they were not given the five days notice. So immediately you fail and it's over. Trump didn't do that 'cause obviously he filed the lawsuit less than 24 hours after the story came out. So he's already failed. So you've now failed on multiple fronts just with the filing of this $10 billion lawsuit.