Trump’s Fantasy Legal World
The former president is obscuring the very real legal problems he has with imaginary ones he wants.
by David A. Graham
Jul 07, 2021
3 minutes
Just like you, Donald Trump has some big summer plans, though his are probably more grandiose: He’s going to be reinstated to the presidency by August, and he’s going to sue Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube, and their respective CEOs for violating his First Amendment rights. The first of these is impossible. The second, which Trump announced during a press conference this morning, is only marginally more likely to succeed.
These two expectations share something in common beyond improbability: Both are examples of the former president trying to warp reality to better fit his
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