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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTFG just can't stop losing. And it's set to continue.
The familiar maxim If at first you dont succeed, try, try again that we pass along to our children encourages resilience and perseverance in the face of failure. We have reason to think someone encouraged former President Donald Trump to take the expression to heart, and, unfortunately, he did.
There are few truisms in life, but heres one: Trump is litigious. Very litigious.
The many lawsuits Trump and his allies filed in 2021, the vast majority of which he lost, provide a case study in perseverance. Trump persevered despite the fact that doing so was often irrational and immoral.
There are few truisms in life, but heres one: Trump is litigious. Very litigious. Before the 2016 election, a USA Today analysis found that he and his businesses had been involved in 4,095 lawsuits over three decades, and in more than 2,100 of those suits as the plaintiff.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-just-cant-stop-losing-and-its-set-to-continue/ar-AAS8w4J
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lame54
(35,443 posts)How much money has been wasted on Trump's lifetime court system abuse
sinkingfeeling
(51,584 posts)dchill
(38,699 posts)OMGWTF
(4,038 posts)She said she deserved all of the life insurance money because we were only married for three years. Rot in hell Minerva.
Alice Kramden
(2,182 posts)Sorry you had to go through that
Grokenstein
(5,733 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,953 posts)suing or being sued.
Wonder what we are doing wrong?
LakeArenal
(28,994 posts)... is the definition of insanity.
SunSeeker
(52,028 posts)Unlike in the UK, where the losing party pays the winner's attorneys fees, in the US each party pays their own fees in most cases. So when Trump sued someone, he forced them to incur thousands in attorneys fees expenses---even if they won. It amounts to extortion: do what I want or I will sue you, and cost you thousands in attorneys fees.
Our country's bar associations do very little to punish attorneys who engage in these sort of tactics, and judges don't do much about it either.
Alice Kramden
(2,182 posts)Plus intimidation and obfuscation - changing the narrative. Roy Cohn taught him well
SunSeeker
(52,028 posts)Stuart G
(38,508 posts)40RatRod
(533 posts)It doesn't cost him anything. His idiot followers just keep sending him their money and he keeps using it.
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,649 posts)None of TFG's current attorneys are even second tier. No first tier lawyer would touch TFG
no_hypocrisy
(46,525 posts)his collection of attorneys.
Otherwise, I can't understand why these lawsuits keep getting processed.