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Judge rules again Trump not above the law.


https://apple.news/AmNVpinVDS8m9H6-D9z-bKw

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and he shouldn't be.

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Harsh rebukes too, the first one LOL....

---- "Defendant's reading of the Supremacy Clause — that it bars a state court from exercising jurisdiction over him because he is the 'ultimate repository of the Executive Branch's powers and is required by the Constitution to be always in function' — finds no support in the constitutional text or case law," states the opinion. "Defendant's interpretation conflicts with the fundamental principle that the United States has a 'government of laws and not of men.'"

--- Trump also attempted to defeat the lawsuit by invoking California's anti-SLAPP statute and arguing that Zervos had no likelihood of prevailing in a defamation claim over statements he characterizes as opinion or hyperbole.

"The use of the term 'liar' could be perceived in some cases as no more than rhetorical hyperbole that is a nonactionable personal opinion," acknowledges the appellate judge before rejecting the argument. Trump, she continues, "used the term [liar] in connection with his specific denial of factual allegations against him, which was necessarily a statement by him of his knowledge of the purported facts."

(Saying that he knew the facts of her complaint and she's lying about it means something did happen, he was there and she was there and what she describes is a lie; it looks bad for him because he is on record as saying nothing happened)

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Same thing he did when he tweeted about Cohen and a pardon.

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This is similar to what ultimately brought Bill Cosby down: vanity. Both of them are braggarts who lack the strength to shut their traps when it would really serve them to.

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About time!!! He should be in jail.

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