Analysis: A judge rebukes — and punishes — Trump’s false Russia narrative
Now, Middlebrooks has determined that the egregious deficiencies of the argument, the public presentations by Trump and his team that the argument was robust and — most importantly — Trump’s pattern of frivolous lawsuits that went unpunished should yield an actual penalty.
Middlebrooks described the nature of the lawsuit — a “shotgun pleading” loosely aimed at a number of targets — as “amount[ing] to obstruction of justice.” He described having sifted “through the thread of allegations against each defendant only to find they added up to no cognizable claim. And the pleadings were drafted in a way to disguise that fact.
Each of Trump’s favorite allegations about the unfairness of the Russia probe is dispatched with Trump’s assessment that the conclusions of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III exonerated him, Middlebrooks wrote, is “perhaps acceptable as a cable news talking point,” but is “neither an accurate nor fair reading of the Mueller Report.” A similar conclusion is reached for the dossier of allegations against Trump, for the Durham indictments and for Trump’s looping in his suspension from Twitter.
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