There are interns being thrown over the bannisters in the White House this evening. Judge tells Trump to redo his lawsuit so that it’s not so tedious and moronic.

A federal judge tossed Donald Trump’s $15bn defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, book publisher Penguin and two Times reporters, and said the suit was filled with “vituperation and invective” and violated civil procedure in federal cases for failing to get to the point.

So one has to wonder why Trump’s lawyers didn’t tell him that instead of letting him make a fool of himself? Sabotage?

Anyway, the Guardian account is a treat.

[Judge]Merryday cited Rule 8(a) of the federal rules of civil procedure requiring a complaint include a short and plain statement of the claim…

“Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes eighty-five pages,” Merryday wrote. “Count I appears on page eighty, and Count II appears on page eighty-three … Even under the most generous and lenient application of Rule 8, the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible.”

It’s impossible not to shriek with laughter at that. It’s so Trump. 85 pages of vituperation and invective before finally getting to the point.

Merryday noted the “many, often repetitive, and laudatory (toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations,” and “much more, persistently alleged in abundant, florid, and enervating detail”.

The judge’s order does not address the truth of the allegations nor the validity of the claims, but said “a complaint remains an improper and impermissible place for the tedious and burdensome aggregation of prospective evidence, for the rehearsal of tendentious arguments, or for the protracted recitation and explanation of legal authority putatively supporting the pleader’s claim for relief.”

So did he get his lawyers from the local detox center, or what?

H/t Mostly Cloudy