President Trump has just responded to the lawsuit by Leticia James on this Truth Social account.
They’ve recently added the embed feature so here it goes:
In case that doesn’t show up for some reason, here’s the text of Trump’s ‘truths’:
Another Witch Hunt by a racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who failed in her run for Governor, getting almost zero support from the public, and now is doing poorly against Law & Order A.G. candidate, highly respected Michael Henry. I never thought this case would be brought – until I saw her really bad poll numbers. She is a fraud who campaigned on a “get Trump” platform, despite the fact that the city is one of the crime and murder disasters of the world under her watch!
Attorney General Letitia “Peekaboo” James, a total crime fighting disaster in New York, is spending all of her time fighting for very powerful and well represented banks and insurance companies, who were fully paid, made a lot of money, and never had a complaint about me, instead of fighting murder and violent crime, which is killing New York State. She is a failed A.G. whose lack of talent in the fight against crime is causing record numbers of people and companies to flee New York. Bye, bye!
While we’re on the subject, Attorney Kurt Schlichter has looked at the lawsuit and here’s how he thinks it will go. Spoiler alert, he thinks it will be dismissed after a few challenges:
Once Trump is served, he takes a few weeks to respond. He probably cannot remove the case since there are NY defendants, so no diversity. Now we're in mid-October. He moves to dismiss.
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— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 21, 2022
I have only skimmed this dog's breakfast of a complaint, but what popped out at me for the parts I looked are were the lack of damages allegations, much less ones against NY, the plaintiff. You cannot sue if you did not suffer a loss. None are pleaded in the parts I looked at.
3/— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 21, 2022
Other causes of action may have damages allegations – we'll see. But there are plenty of other grounds to move to dismiss that just leap off the page.
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— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 21, 2022
Let's get real – if they thought they had Trump they would have filed a criminal case, but they have to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. A civil suit is a preponderance of the evidence. They had no criminal case. They chose civil "fraud" to impress dumb people.
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— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 21, 2022
So, the initial motion to dismiss will not be heard before the midterm – the real mission was accomplished by filing suit in time to influence the election, but not so early that this garbage case could be tossed out before the election.
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— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 21, 2022
I expect the case will be dropped or tossed after a couple motion to dismiss rounds. Maybe there will be a small, piddling settlement the AG will claim is a victory. It's not a real lawsuit. It's lawfare. And I hope red AGs are taking note of the new rules.
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— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 21, 2022
I was thinking the same thing, that if they truly had evidence that Trump committed a crime, they would have prosecuted him rather than filing a civil lawsuit against him.
I hope Schlichter is right and this case gets tossed. And quickly.