You would think the fat fucking orange birther game show host would be an expert in lawfare by now ??
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From the 1970s until he was elected president in 2016,
Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in
United States federal and
state courts, including battles with casino patrons, million-dollar real estate lawsuits, personal
defamation lawsuits, and over 100 business tax disputes.
[1] He has also been accused of
sexual harassment and sexual assault,
[2][3] with one accusation resulting in him being held civilly liable.
[4]
In 2015, Trump's lawyer Alan Garten called Trump's legal entanglement "a natural part of doing business" in the U.S.
[5][6] While litigation is indeed common in the
real estate industry,
[5] Trump has been involved in more legal cases than his fellow magnates
Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.,
Donald Bren,
Stephen M. Ross,
Sam Zell, and
Larry Silverstein combined
After the
2020 United States presidential election, the
campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed 62 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in 9 states (including
Arizona,
Georgia,
Michigan,
Nevada,
Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin) and the
District of Columbia.
[1][2]
Nearly all the suits were dismissed or dropped due to lack of evidence or lack of standing,
[3] including 30 lawsuits that were dismissed by the judge after a hearing on the
merits.
[4] Among the judges who dismissed the lawsuits were some appointed by Trump himself.
[5] Judges, lawyers, and other observers described the suits as "
frivolous"
[6] and "without merit".
[7][8] In one instance, the Trump campaign and other groups seeking his reelection collectively lost multiple cases in six states on a single day.
[9] Only one ruling was initially in Trump's favor: the timing within which first-time Pennsylvania voters must provide proper identification if they wanted to "cure" their ballots. This ruling affected very few votes,
[10] and it was later overturned by the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
[11]
Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters falsely
[12] asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, but few such assertions were made in court.
[13] Every state except Wisconsin
[14] met the December 8
statutory "safe harbor" deadline to resolve disputes and certify voting results. The Trump legal team had said it would not consider this election certification deadline as the expiration date for its litigation of the election results.
[15][16][17] Three days after it was filed by Texas attorney general
Ken Paxton, the U.S. Supreme Court on December 11 declined to hear
a case supported by Trump and his Republican allies asking for electoral votes in four states to be rejected.
[18]
