By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org
President Trump’s go-to grievance, “the Russia Russia Russia hoax,” is honored in Florida state courts, where judges help him threaten the media and revise the story of the 2016 presidential election.
According to Trump’s preferred version of events, he won fair and square in 2016 with no help from Vladimir Putin. Anyone who dares note that Russia contributed to Trump’s victory, or who fact-checks one of his false assertions, risks having to pay huge money damages.
On Sept. 15, for instance, Trump filed a $15-billion defamation suit against The New York Times in Tampa federal court. The lawsuit targets articles and a book that claim the Trump family’s fortune was built on fraud. A court loss for The Times could bankrupt one of the biggest watchdogs on the Trump beat. 
Four days later, U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday, an appointee of Republican President George H.W. Bush, dismissed the “decidedly improper and impermissible” complaint. However, the judge will allow Trump’s lawyers to shorten and refile their 85-page screed, so the case continues.
The many civil actions Trump has filed, including a pending libel law case against the Pulitzer Prize Board, support his obvious strategy: choke off defiant media voices and grab the power to dictate “the first rough draft of history,” as journalism is called.
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