I have said it before, and I will say it again: the Internet is the greatest vector of mental disorders ever invented by the hand of man. Even more than cocaine, it’s a hell of a drug.
I can’t argue with that. As much as I enjoy “googling” obscure facts at the drop of a hat, I think the internet is destroying humanity.
For his part, while Wood concedes he described the lawyers as his “partners,” he says they were never truly partners in his firm.
A relief, I’m sure, for the former partners.
Release the kraken, or the flerken, or the chicken, or something…
Profiles In Cowardice:
…“Have members of Congress, Republicans, come up to you privately and whispered in your ear, ‘Way to go, Liz’ and encouraged you but won’t come forward and say that publicly?” Stahl asked Cheney.
“Yes,” Cheney responded…
Political courage, always in short supply, is almost non-existent in the GOP of the Age of Trump.
Trump is apparently available in liquid form:
An ad from the 50s, I believe. It’s still sold today in a different form, but at the time it was a commercial dishwasher detergent sold in five-gallon pails that automatically fed industrial washers. It seems a pity to have squandered the name that way. It should have been reserved for something more appropriate, like a corrosive bacteria-laden substance that you flushed into your septic tank once a year to eat up all the shit.
They had to recall that Trump product, because as it turns out, it actually created more shit in your septic tank.
Kraken released with great fanfare! Thanks Sidney!
Concerning Trump suing his niece, I saw a Michael Cohen interview this weekend and his advice was she shouldn’t fight it going to trial, and the smart thing to do is to let all the discovery and depositions get going full speed. Cohen said of Trump’s attorneys, “They are adamant that they do not want him (Trump) to sit for depositions because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Even if in fact it deals with him, he is absolutely clueless and he lies so much, he doesn’t even remember the lies that he told yesterday,”
Hell, he doesn’t even remember the lies he told a minute or so ago, or at the beginning of the sentence he’s currently mangling.
Like the man said, I don’t lie because my memory isn’t good enough.
A New York arbitrator has tossed Trump’s non-disclosure agreement with Omarosa, agreeing with her argument that the NDA was not binding under New York contract law.
Reading about this decision in the Washington Post (possibly paywalled), I found that Trump’s NDAs require signnatories to keep confidential “all information . . . that Mr. Trump insists remain private.” The arbitrator in this case, and a Federal judge in another, both said this is too broad and vague.
“The Agreement effectively imposes on [her] an obligation to never say anything remotely critical of Mr. Trump, his family or his or his family members’ businesses, for the rest of her life,” Brown [the arbitrator] wrote. “Such a burden is certainly unreasonable.”
In addition, Brown said, Manigault Newman had not revealed any hard data taken from her time on the campaign, such as polling numbers or donors’ phone numbers.
Instead, Brown wrote, her statements are “for the most part simply expressions of unflattering opinions, which are deemed ‘confidential information’ based solely upon the designation of Mr. Trump.”
Hopefully, this could begin a tide of invalidating Trump NDAs, letting other former employees start speaking out.
After years of working for an ad agency, our (new) lawyer demanded our boss/owner go around and get everyone to sign an NDA. The boss was embarrassed, and she said “Look, the lawyer needs a phone call from me that everyone has signed this, but even the head of his law firm said these aren’t really enforceable, so can you just go ahead and sign this? I’ll never hold you to it.”
(I pointed out that if she sold the agency to a tough guy, he could take us to court to try to enforce the clause that said “I will not work for any competitor in the ad or design field for ten years”…
But I went ahead and signed it. With a flourish, starting with a great big D…
Followed by a barely legible … ontthinkill Signthis
I noticed that she did not look closely at it as she put it with the others in a file folder. Then she deliberately shoved it in the very back of her lowest file cabinet.
and with that ruling every ghost writer in the country is finding their phone ringing off the hook.
Nice to see that Trump has been screwed by his own comically over-protective narcissism. Meaningful, enforceable NDAs usually cover very specific information (in my experience, mostly advanced product or planning information revealed in a specific meeting or presentation). If, as seems likely, Trump’s other NDAs also contain overly broad language along the same lines as “you can’t say anything about me that I don’t approve, ever” then they’ll get tossed, too. We all know Trump is an ineffable moron but it sometimes surprises me how stupid his lawyers are, too (case in point: R. Giuliani; S. Powell).
That seems par for the course. While an NDA should be narrow in scope outlining what information you’re not supposed to share, a lot of organizations try to use them as a club and include conditions they know aren’t enforceable. They’re just hoping to intimidate people into following the NDA by scaring them with potential lawsuits.
“Nobody in her life has done more for Omarosa than a man named Donald Trump. Unfortunately, like certain others, she forgot all about that — which is fine with me!” Trump said.
Trump sounds like a petulant child.
“Sounds like”? 
This is the guy now wreaking havoc among Georgia Republicans by tacitly supporting Stacey Abrams for governor, because Brian Kemp was mean to him by refusing to commit election fraud on his behalf. Trump doesn’t give the tiniest shit about anything beyond getting back at anyone who has ever been mean to him, in his esteemed estimation. Unfortunately that is now beginning to include the entire judicial system, as well as all media outside of Fox and OANN, and a majority of Americans outside his circle of insurrectionists. So unfair! Sad!
In his totally deranged mind, he’s the most fouled individual in history. In fact, he’s the individual who most fouled other people.