from the slappity-slapp-slapp-slapp dept

Last year when Donald Trump sued Rupert Murdoch over the WSJ’s article revealing the… um… birthday card he sent Jeffrey Epstein, we pointed out that it was a pure SLAPP suit (and also that it was against a guy who, you could argue, is one of the main reasons he ever got elected). Trump insisted, both publicly and in the lawsuit, that the letter was “a fake thing” and that he never wrote it. So, of course, after the lawsuit was filed, the birthday card was released by the House Oversight Committee that had subpoenaed the Epstein Estate. You’ve seen it by now in all its creepiness.

As we pointed out, the lawyer who brought the suit, Alejandro Brito (who has become the latest of Trump’s go-to lawyers) didn’t seem to have much experience with defamation law, and it shows . Earlier this year, the judge in the case, Darrin Gayles, dismissed the lawsuit while pointing out its many faults .…