Lawsuits Against Trump Are Unravelling on Appeal. But The Damage Is Done.

The lawsuits against Donald Trump in a campaign called lawfare by the Democrats are either behind us or are on hold. But they have not gone away.

There are six major lawfare attacks. The first was a civil suit by a known sex fiend who owned a cat named Vagina that alleged that Trump assaulted her in a dressing room at a New York Department store. There were no witnesses and no corroborating evidence, but a New York jury still managed to deliver a judgment of over $70 million against Trump.

Then there was another civil lawsuit in the Bronx alleging trivial business records violations against Trump on an application for a loan that was repaid on time and in full. That case resulted in an over $550 million judgment against Trump with that amount still growing due to interest and penalties.

Then there were four criminal cases consisting of the “hush money” state law case involving porn star Stormy Daniels in Manhattan, a January 6-related federal case in Washington DC, a classified documents federal case in Palm Beach, Florida and another election interference state law case in Fulton County, Georgia.

It’s fair to say that every one of these cases was politically motivated. The New York business records and hush money cases were brought by elected prosecutors who bragged that they would “get Trump” if elected. The sex fiend civil case was financed by progressive Democrat activists. The Georgia election case evolved in close consultation with the Biden White House and his corrupt Department of Justice. Finally, the January 6 and classified documents cases were brought by a hyper-partisan special prosecutor hand-picked by the vindictive Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Here’s the scorecard: The hush money case resulted in 32 criminal convictions of Trump but is on appeal with a good chance of being overturned. The Georgia case is on indefinite hold while the state investigates wrongdoing by the prosecutor Fani Willis who hired her lover as the lead litigator (despite no big case experience) and then took luxury trips with him using his state-paid legal fees.

The sex fiend case is also on appeal. The classified documents case was dismissed on grounds that the special prosecutor was illegally appointed. The January 6 case may go forward late this year but will likely also result in any conviction being overturned on the same grounds that the prosecutor was illegally appointed or that Trump is immune under the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States (2024).

The latest development is consistent with these failures or prospective failures of the lawfare radicals in the other cases. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court hearing an appeal of the $550 million plus judgement in the business records case expressed skepticism that the relevant statute was ever intended to be used in the way the prosecutor applied it to Trump. The judges said that the statute was intended for persistent consumer fraud and was never intended to be used in large commercial transactions between sophisticated parties.

It’s not clear how the appellate division will finally rule, but a substantial reduction in the damages is likely if not an outright reversal of the case. If that happens, score it as another victory for Trump.

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