Trump's Legal Threats Backfire

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Minutes after the Stormy Daniels interview on 60 Minutes, Team Trump fired off a heavy-breathing lawyer’s letter, bristling with phrases like “cease and desist” and “retract and apologize.”

This is exactly the approach by which Donald Trump inadvertently made millions for Michael Wolff. Having so spectacularly backfired the first time, why do it again? The short answer is: Team Trump knows nothing else.

Back when he was a private businessman, Trump learned how to use law as a weapon. The lesson he took from that is that if your pockets are deep enough—and your conscience dull enough—it doesn’t matter that you are wrong. The other party will go broke before you will lose.

USA Today tallied the heavy-handed Trump litigation strategy back in June 2016. Over three decades, Trump fought 3,500 lawsuits—and faced 200 mechanic’s liens—mostly arising from disputes over unpaid bills. His strategy was to contest everything, and never quit: “The Trump teams financially overpower and outlast much smaller opponents, draining their resources. Some just give up the fight, or settle for less; some have ended up in bankruptcy or out of business altogether.”


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/trumps-legal-threats-backfire/556505/

[dalton99a]

1. He should threaten more often

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. And have his consigliere(s) send scary letters.

[dalton99a]

3. and follow people into parking lots

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. And

[dalton99a]

5. Yep.

[Canoe52]

6. I just love the runner under the picture! Porn star, Playmate....

[SunSeeker]

7. Trump's lawyers should be disbarred, starting with Cohen.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. If you know anything about bad doctors revoking a license is a high bar.

[SunSeeker]

9. Using your license to commit felonies usually clears that bar. nt

[NewJeffCT]

12. Bill Clinton was disbarred

for lying about Monica Lewinsky.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. As part of a plea deal.

[louis c]

18. Actually, Clinton lied about Paula Jones

[meow2u3]

20. Disbarring Trump's lawyers should be merely the beginning

Indicting, prosecuting, trying, convicting, and imprisoning them should be step 2. Step 3 would be bring Trump down as the criminal he is.

[Rorey]

10. Between a rock and a hard place

The threats that Spanky's team make are empty. In the case of Stormy Daniels, they've always been empty. Avanetti knew this.

For Spanky's team to make their case, they're going to have to present evidence they don't want to present. There is no winning for them. That's the way I see it.

[PatSeg]

11. How many other women are out there

who were bought off and aren't going public? Trump lawyers have successfully intimidated people for decades. I am sure there are many more women. After all Trump was a very prolific lecher.

[gratuitous]

14. Nota bene who's demanding Stormy Daniels cease and desist

It's not Trump, it's Michael Cohen's lawyer demanding that Daniels cease and desist. To this point, they're trying to maintain the fiction that Donald Trump isn't involved in any of this tawdriness in any way. Trump as Dennis Dennison didn't sign that non-disclosure agreement. Trump never made no payments to no adult film actresses. Trump is not asking for an apology or a retraction. Sooner or later someone on the Trump legal team is bound to screw up, but for now they're still pretending that none of this has anything to do with the President.

[TNNurse]

15. I have limited legal knowledge.

Just how meaningful is a cease and desist letter?????

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. It's a scary letter with no force of law.

[blake2012]

17. He's an evil snake and should be sent to general population in San Quentin

[workinclasszero]

19. This is just more proof that the legal system is controlled by the rich

like everything else in this country.

"Justice" goes to the highest bidder!