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I feel conflicted and dirty (Original Post) CatWoman Jul 18 OP
He had better not settle. 😡 spooky3 Jul 18 #1
Or die. He's 125 years old. MIButterfly Jul 19 #2
This is a case where COL Mustard Jul 19 #13
I'm not rooting for either and if they were to have a duel, I'd hope for a tie. Solly Mack Jul 19 #3
LOL. The enemy of my enemy rsdsharp Jul 19 #4
His motives are not noble. CentralMass Jul 19 #5
This is sort of an Iran-Iraq War situation JHB Jul 19 #6
Hope springs eternal RoeVWade Jul 19 #7
Maybe tbey weren't errors. Figarosmom Jul 19 #9
Me too Figarosmom Jul 19 #8
I'm hoping they kill each other. GoodRaisin Jul 19 #10
For me it's like watching 2... róisín_dubh Jul 19 #11
Agree! KT2000 Jul 19 #12
Cage match at the White House! Refereed by Joe Rogan! Buns_of_Fire Jul 19 #14
You are not alone dlk Jul 19 #15
I'm "rooting for him" the same way we "rooted for" Stalin in WWII... sir pball Jul 19 #16

MIButterfly

(907 posts)
2. Or die. He's 125 years old.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:15 AM
Jul 19

It would just be like DJT to drag it out until he's gone just to make his last years as miserable as DJT is.

Not that I have any good wishes for Murdoch.....he's as loathsome as DJT is.

Solly Mack

(95,376 posts)
3. I'm not rooting for either and if they were to have a duel, I'd hope for a tie.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:17 AM
Jul 19

Don't feel conflicted and dirty. Trump needs to lose everything. Everything.

JHB

(37,797 posts)
6. This is sort of an Iran-Iraq War situation
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:32 AM
Jul 19

For everyone else, the best outcome is for them to take each other out.

RoeVWade

(596 posts)
7. Hope springs eternal
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:35 AM
Jul 19
President Donald Trump's legal team made several grave errors in their new $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp and Rupert Murdoch, according to an attorney who specializes in First Amendment law.

In a thread posted to his X account Friday, Atlanta, Georgia-based lawyer Andrew Fleischman predicted that Trump's lawsuit will be promptly thrown out due to multiple glaring issues. Chiefly, Trump filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of Florida. While he may have done so as a means of drawing U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump appointee who officially scuttled former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against Trump last July — Fleischman pointed out that Florida has an anti-SLAPP statute [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation] that will doom Trump's litigation.

Florida's libel and defamation laws also require that plaintiffs give defendants at least five days' notice that they plan to sue them before officially submitting the filing in court. According to Fleischman, Trump "made that impossible" by suing the Journal just a day after the paper published its bombshell report about a lewd birthday message Trump allegedly sent Epstein in 2003.

"The remedy is dismissal," Fleischman tweeted. "And I suspect that means Trump pays the WSJ's legal fees."

"That's not the only big problem with the lawsuit," he continued in a subsequent tweet. "But it's the one that an 11 year old with a Lexis subscription could figure out in 5 minutes."

Figarosmom

(7,239 posts)
9. Maybe tbey weren't errors.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 01:58 AM
Jul 19

Maybe trump wanted it to look like ge was suing and was thrown out of court. He could play victim and not have to go through proving he was defamed. I'm sure his lawyers reminded him about discovery.

róisín_dubh

(12,082 posts)
11. For me it's like watching 2...
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 02:14 AM
Jul 19

Poisonous spiders duke it out. I’m rooting for them both to lose.
I have arachnophobia haha

KT2000

(21,631 posts)
12. Agree!
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 02:35 AM
Jul 19

Murdoch is so slimy and did so many favors for trump it is hard to root for him, but trump is worse.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,618 posts)
14. Cage match at the White House! Refereed by Joe Rogan!
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 03:32 AM
Jul 19
Three men enter the cage. With any luck none of them walk out.

sir pball

(5,050 posts)
16. I'm "rooting for him" the same way we "rooted for" Stalin in WWII...
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 09:17 AM
Jul 19

I am not a fan by any conceivable stretch of the imagination, but such a powerful force working towards a mutual interest is not unwelcome.

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