Batsh*t crazy Trump DOJ filing says National Trust for Historic Preservation has TDS & ballroom is "a gift to the U.S."

[Miles Archer]

The Trump administration's Justice Department filed a reply brief Wednesday that reads less like a legal document and more like a late-night tweet storm, accusing the National Trust for Historic Preservation of suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and declaring the proposed $400 million White House ballroom "a gift to the People of the United States."

The seven-page filing this week, signed by Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr., asks a federal judge to issue an indicative ruling that would dissolve an injunction currently blocking above-ground construction on the project — and it doesn't hold back.

"The 'National Trust for Historic Preservation' — which, again, is not a government agency of any type — never once denies that its lawsuit is motivated by an irrational desire to stop anything associated with President Donald J. Trump, which even Democratic elected officials have labeled as 'Trump Derangement Syndrome,' or TDS," the filing opens.

The brief even cites Sen. John Fetterman's X post, urging the Trust to "drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom," as a legal footnote.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-calls-ballroom-gift-to-the-people-while-blaming-trump-derangement-syndrome/

[Ritabert]

1. That "gift" is costing the taxpayers plenty

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. It's becoming hard to distinguish DAG Blanche's prose from Trump's.

Any normal attorney would be embarrassed to file this brief

Link to tweet

[Ocelot II]

3. I would find the document hilarious if it hadn't been paid for with my tax money.

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Read it here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.81.0_1.pdf

I'm convinced that Toady Blanche and his craven minions at DoJ submit their legal briefs to Trump for approval before filing them to ensure that there are enough random and ungrammatical capitalizations of words that normal English-speaking people don't capitalize, insults, transparently tendentious descriptions, and the frequent use of the regime's made-up term for any disapproval of or disagreement with Dear Leader, "Trump Derangement Syndrome." To say that their arguments are disingenuous is the equivalent of suggesting that bears relieve themselves in forests, but my favorite is the performative outrage at any doubt that the so-called "Militarily Top Secret Ballroom" is absolutely essential to protect the president and his entourage (and therefore National Security itself!) from TDS-inspired assassination attempts at public events like the WHCA Dinner, at which there has never before been such an attempt, and at which in this case was thwarted at the first level of security and on a different floor of the hotel.

I am also wondering whether Satan himself presented the contract for the sales of the souls of the lawyers whose names are on the brief, or whether it was emailed and an electronic facsimile signature was all he needed.