Hey, everybody.

Tim Miller from the Bullwark here with managing editor Sam Stein.

It's the end of the week.

We're a little punchy.

And we are reading this wonderful court decision, smacking down Donald Trump's ridiculous lawsuit targeting the New York Times.

Being Andrew Egger, if you missed that, we'll put a link in the notes here.

We broke down just how absurd this fucking lawsuit was initially.

Is it absurd?

Pretty absurd, even though I know somebody who was maybe hoping that was successful,

but we won't talk about that.

But the judge here, Stephen Mary Day, shout out to Stephen Mary Day, great name,

George H.W. Bush appointee. That's H.H.W. Yeah. What did I say? Did I say, W. George H.W.

Greatest. I understand. H.W. Greatest president of my lifetime. So it's still, it's, you know,

this the long tail of his work is still, uh is still at play here and uh mary day response so

just i guess briefly for folks who must have the um this the lead shoot against the times was

that they were too mean to trump and his base good is short of it and that they underplayed his

fame and celebrity and success in business and and so they didn't they didn't note that he was in

home alone too they didn't know that he's in home alone too um and so uh i'm about to read some

of it unless sam do you have a top line uh take before i go for this great dive in there we go

judge mary day is replying to in rejecting this motion uh he is he replies thusly the reader must endure an

allegation of quote endure the desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report

with an authentic looking glass and another allegation quote, the false narrative about the apprentice was just

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