Trump has reportedly filed a foolish suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board

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It was May when Donald Trump first broached the subject of a possible lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize board. In October, the former president led a rally in Texas and added some specific details to his rant.

Within the next two weeks, the Pulitzer organization was sued to recover the prizes, the Republican announced.

I more or less assumed that the rhetoric was pointless posturing, in part because his references to the fortnight were basically meaningless, and in part because the underlying idea was so strange.

However, according to Fox News, Trump seems to have followed through on his threat.

Former President Trump filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against the Pulitzer Prize Board over the 2018 National Reporting prizes awarded to The New York Times and Washington Post for covering the now-debunked theory of the alleged’ y collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Trumps suit, filed Tuesday in Okeechobee County, Florida, was obtained by Fox News Digital. It says a clearly false connection was and remains the stated basis for the coverage that received the prestigious award.

It is important to emphasize that neither MSNBC nor NBC News have confirmed the existence of this trial, although Trump has promoted the Fox News report through his social media platform, which he likely would not have done if it were baseless. .

Lets make this plain at the outset: If Trump really did file a defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board, it would be one of the most ridiculous lawsuits he’s ever filed, and he’s filed some doozies.

Let’s recap how we got to this point.

Four years ago, The New York Times and The Washington Post received Pulitzers for newspaper coverage of the Russia scandal, and by any fair standard, the awards were well-deserved. Of course, Trump didn’t see it that way.

In fact, as the former president convinced himself that the Russia scandal was false, he became more and more preoccupied with journalism awards. Republicans have even pressured the Pulitzer Prize board to reverse course and strip newspapers of the honor, because, as far as Trump is concerned, the awards are in recognition of reporting on a scandal that has been discredited.

In a remarkable move, the Pulitzer board took Trump’s appeals seriously and launched independent reviews of the newspapers that reported. Predictably, they found the Times and the Post correct, and none of the reporting was discouraged by the facts that emerged following the awarding of the prizes.

Given the circumstances, it seemed unnecessary for the Pulitzer board to indulge Trump’s absurd rants, and conduct a thorough review, but board members reviewed the matter anyway.

In fact, it’s important to acknowledge the fact that the Pulitzer board appears to be taking Trumps claims more seriously than Trump did. The former president ignored the facts and dismissed the scandal because it suited his political agenda. It was a mindless, knee-jerk reaction to the facts that angered him. Trump did not make a serious appeal based on extensive research and credible evidence; he appealed because his feelings were hurt by the truth. However, the Pulitzer board concluded that the facts remained unchanged.

And so it now appears that the former president is taking the matter to court. The Republican didn’t sue the newspapers whose precise articles he didn’t like, but instead, he reported the Pulitzer board for disagreeing with him about precise articles he didn’t like.

A large portion of Americans had a massive misunderstanding of the truth at the time the Times and the Posts’ spread of the Russia Collusion Hoax dominated the media, the legal complaint appears to allege. Interestingly, they were rewarded for lying to the American public.

Even if we set aside the obvious fact that it would be pointless for Trump to sue the Pulitzer board because he disapproved of the reporting by others, the fact remains that the Russia scandal is real and completely real. Let’s review five key facts about the Russia scandal.

Russia attacked the 2016 American election

Every US intelligence agency and lawmakers from both parties have long agreed that the Kremlin launched a vast and expensive covert military intelligence operation targeting the US political system in 2016. This basic fact is unopposed except for Trump, who has publicly stated that he finds Vladimir Putin more reliable than his own administration officials and its importance is often overlooked.

Russia’s goal is to put Trump in power

The Kremlins operation is not politically neutral: Moscow attacks our elections in hopes of helping dictate the outcome. According to the findings of US intelligence agencies, the Mueller investigation, and the multi-step investigation from the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee, Russia sees Trump as a prospective ally and believes it is for in its interests if a Republican is in the White House.

Russia and Team Trump are political allies

As regular readers know, investigations from Special Counsel Robert Muellers team and the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee have documented the extent to which Trump and his team accepted, received, and benefited from the Russian campaign aid. (They also obstructed the investigation with this aid by several steps, 10 times.)

The evidence also showed that there was coordination and high-level connections between Trump’s political operation and those responsible for attacking our elections. The Senate Intelligence Committee report at one point literally described a direct link between senior Trump Campaign officials and the Russian intelligence services.

Team Trump lied about its communications with Russia

No, really, Team Trump lied about its communications with Russia. A lot. Loud and recorded. Repeatedly, Trump and his spokespeople have insisted that there was absolutely no contact between the Republican, his political operation, and their Russian backers. We now know they are lying even though they still won’t say why.

The Russia scandal led to a series of felony convictions and prison sentences

For one alleged fraud, the Russia scandal has led to an astonishing number of federal prosecutions. In fact, the investigation led to the conviction of, among others, Trumps White House national security advisor, campaign chairman, deputy campaign chairman, foreign policy advisor, personal attorney, and the indictment of 13 Russian nationals who interfered in our election as part. of a larger plot.

I realize, of course, that there are all kinds of disputed details and personalities related to the controversy, which are still being debated as part of the broader conversation about the story.

But these five facts are largely undisputed, and reinforced, not only by US intelligence agencies, but also by the Mueller investigation and findings of the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee. Russia attacked our elections to help Trump. The Republican political operation accepted, accepted, benefited from, and lied about Russian campaign assistance. Many key players from Trumps inner circle have been charged, indicted, and convicted.

These are not opinions. These are conclusions drawn from multiple, bipartisan investigations, conducted over several years.

The only fraud here is what is being done by those pretending that the Russia scandal is not real.

Trump’s lawyers were recently sanctioned for filing frivolous lawsuits as part of a political stunt. No one should be surprised if that happens again in response to this litigation.

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