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Trump and Kash can’t stop running to court 59%
By Lisa Needham99%
8/1/2026, 12:00:00 PM
Keywords: Donaldtrump, E Jeancarroll, Injusticeforall, Jimstewartson, Kashpatel, Theatlantic, Series
BS Summary: This article contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Unattributed Quote, and Ad Hominem, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 53.3% saturation with 653 hits. Analysis detected 2,648 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,226 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 49.7% and a BS Rank of 59% (10,502 of 25,279 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 58.50% of the article peer group.
This week’s Injustice features two of the most litigious people you know, with President Donald Trump running to the Supreme Court not once but twice, but forgetting to go thrice, and FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit antics continue.
Trump runs to his BFFs at SCOTUS
Last month, Trump reached the end of the line on one of his E.
Jean Carroll cases after the United States Supreme Court declined to save him.
He was finally forced to pay Carroll the $5 million he owes her, though he is currently trying to claw that back.
Now, he’s gone to the Supreme Court to try to get them to make the other jury award Carroll won, this one for $83 million, go away.
And in a perfect example of how the Department of Justice is just Trump’s own little law firm now, the DOJ is asking to be substituted for Trump in the lawsuit, saying it was part of his official duties to defame Carroll.
If he prevails on that, Carroll is out of luck, because you can’t sue the federal government for defamation.
Honestly abysmal behavior all around.
Fingers crossed that the nation’s highest court isn’t interested in saving Trump on this Carroll case either, but given that it is the same Supreme Court where the conservative majority granted Trump sweeping immunity, all bets are off.
Trump runs to his BFFs at SCOTUS part deux
This is a blast from the past—a very stupid blast from the past.
Trump is asking the nation’s highest court to pretty please revive his unhinged Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations lawsuit where he sued Hillary Clinton, the DNC, former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Fusion GPS, Your Mom, and so on.
Trump claimed all of these people had engaged in a vast conspiracy to hurt his 2016 campaign by saying he had ties to Russia.
Even if the conspiracy part wasn’t hilarious, he did, of course, have a whole bunch of ties to Russia, which has been proven again and again.
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of the case last year and also upheld the nearly $1 million in sanctions that the lower court imposed against Trump and his attorneys, including Alina Habba, because the court “did not clearly err in finding that Trump’s attorneys filed the amended complaint in bad faith.”
Two of those panel judges were Trump appointees, but now he would like the Supreme Court to examine whether the court got it wrong in also ruling that he waited too long to sue.
Oh, but also he needs a little extra time to pursue his personal attacks in his personal lawsuit, so the filing asks the court for some extra time for filing, until Sept. 9, to “reduce any interruption of the work of the president in his singular role as chief executive.”
Lol, buddy.
You’re doing nothing but filing lawsuits, napping, and destroying Washington, D.C.
Trump runs to his BFFs at SCOTUS part … whoops
While Trump has found time to demand the Supreme Court help him harass E.
Jean Carroll and Hillary Clinton, he somehow plumb forgot to petition the court to reconsider its verdict in the birthright citizenship case.
You’ll recall that after the verdict came down, Trump blustered far and wide about it, an entire Truth Social tirade that ended with him saying he was going to ask the Supreme Court for a do-over:
“AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!
In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong.
I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY.
This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision.”
While it is indeed possible to ask the court to rehear a case, it hasn’t done so since 1965.
Losing at the Supreme Court is kinda the end of the line, even for very special presidents with very special immunity.
But the deadline to ask for a rehearing has come and gone, and no request was ever filed.
Look, it’s an unmitigated good thing that Trump didn’t ask for a rehearing and that the court would therefore never have a chance to change their mind, but it says a lot that the president is more fixated on his personal vendettas than his big signature initiative.
Kash Patel hits the finding out stage
Just like his boss, Patel loves filing defamation lawsuits over reporting he doesn’t like and misusing his power to threaten those reporters.
But Patel’s lawsuit against The Atlantic for their reporting that he’s a drunky lazy spendthrift little guy requires him to prove that it’s a lie to say he’s a drunky lazy spendthrift little guy.
So The Atlantic is letting Patel know what sort of things they’re seeking in discovery if this case doesn’t get dismissed: Key witnesses, like his security detail, who would have info related to his “alcohol consumption, absences and unreachability, retaliatory firings, concerns about his job security, and focus on image.”
Also, vetting materials, any drug or alcohol testing Patel has undergone, all reimbursements Patel has allegedly made for treating the FBI jet and his job like a treat machine for one special boy, and so on.
And listen, if Trump has to cough up discovery material to the BBC in his defamation case, the chance Patel avoids discovery here is pretty slim.
Meanwhile, Patel is using the official FBI Rapid Response account on X to yell about how very dare The Atlantic fight back against his bogus lawsuit.
Kash Patel is hitting the finding out stage, part deux
While Patel is flailing around in his case against the Atlantic, he now has one less defamation case to worry about.
Patel and his paper-thin skin sued a random blogger, Jim Stewartson, back in 2023 over Stewartson calling him a “Kremlin asset” and an “incompetent chud.”
Fun fact: the lawyer who represented Patel in this suit is one Sigal Chattah, who Trump tried to install forever as interim U.S. attorney in Nevada, only to have a court tell him, as with so many other of his picks, that Chattah was in the role illegally.
Patel initially won by default, but only because he sued Stewartson in Nevada, where Stewartson has no ties, and Stewartson therefore didn’t even respond to the case.
You might recall that Patel was an actual lawyer, even a public defender, and he knows full well that you can’t haul people into a random court when they have no connection to that jurisdiction.
Now, the judge in the case has permanently thrown the whole thing out: “Stewartson did not have minimum contacts in Nevada.
And even if he had, the plaintiffs’ claims against him did not arise out of or relate to those contacts.
As a result, I need not address the remaining elements of the specific personal jurisdiction analysis.
There is no arguable basis for this court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Stewartson.
Thus the default judgment is void and I set it aside.”
For his part, Stewartson celebrated on social media: “PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to Kash Patel as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin b****,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions.”
Hell yeah.
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