Last week, Donald Trump suffered a humiliating defeat just a block away from our Ring of
Fire home office.
Donald Trump in a court in Pensacola, Florida was actually smacked down by a federal judge
with regard to the lawsuit that Donald Trump had filed against legendary journalist Bob
Woodward and his publisher Simon and Schuster.
So here's what happened.
Back in January of this year, Donald Trump angry that Bob Woodward published as an audio
book.
The recordings of the interviews he did with Donald Trump, Trump alleged this was a copyright
infringement, which was a stupid, weird argument to begin with.
But anyway, he says, this is a copyright infringement.
I'm suing you for $50 million, Mr. Woodward, and I'm suing you in Pensacola, Florida, right,
right, right on the border.
Alabama over here, a place where Donald Trump does not live.
Bob Woodward does not live here.
Simon Schuster is not headquartered here.
There was literally no reason to file the lawsuit again, a block away from our office.
That's where the federal courthouse is.
So Trump just says, yeah, Pensacola, right?
Even though nobody that is a party to the lawsuit is even from Pensacola.
And that is basically what the federal judge, uh, judge Rogers had to say.
Judge Rogers said, quote, the venue in this district is wrong and improper.
The clerk is directed to transfer this case to the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
As the court concludes, that district is the most appropriate and convenient forum for
the parties and witnesses and the one with the strongest connection to the dispute.
So basically, the judge is like, listen, you clearly went forum shopping.
Okay?
Pensacola, Florida is an exceptionally conservative area.
This is an area that has not voted for a Democrat since 1960.
This state has been run by conservatives.
We've got conservative lawmakers representing us in dc.
So anytime a federal judgeship comes open, our Republican lawmakers tell the Republicans
in Congress, tell the president, you gotta put a conservative down here.
This is a conservative court system.
And Trump thought, Hey, I can eke out an easy victory by going in front of judges who love
me.
But this judge was like, dude, this is like, I don't even know what truth.
Like I don't even know why this is here.
, none of you are here and Trump's lawyers, and this is the stupidest part.
They actually tried to argue that.
Well, you know, they, they, they sell books here.
I mean, you can buy the book in Pensacola, so obviously we can sue him here, ,
if that's the case, um, the judge could have said, all right, you wanna use that argument?
We'll move the case out to California.
We'll move it up to Oregon.
Hell, I'll move it down to Mexico if I have to, because you can buy books anywhere.
That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard.
And the icing on the cake, of course, is that it's now going to the Southern District of
New York, a judicial system that is essentially made up of judges who are not exactly fond
of Donald Trump.
So the chances of this lawsuit being successful went from about 50 50 down to about zero,
because now Trump is probably going to have to face a judge, maybe one that's already
slapped him down in the past.
But odds are he is gonna be facing a judge that doesn't exactly like him and understands
that there's no copyright infringement when you agreed to do the interviews in the first
place.