Trump Goons Make Bonkers Ballroom Plea Over WHCD Shooting

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Donald Trump’s Justice Department officials filed a legal brief that resembled one of the president’s Truth Social rants to argue that construction on the $400 million White House ballroom must resume.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, and DOJ lawyer Trent McCotter submitted https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.79.0.pdf" rel="" target="_self" title="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.79.0.pdf">court documents Monday suggesting the alleged assassination attempt against Trump during Saturday’s https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-get-why-people-call-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-staged-i-was-there/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-get-why-people-call-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-staged-i-was-there/">White House Correspondents’ Dinner proves the vanity project is needed.

However, rather than a standard legal filing, the opening and closing of the document submitted to U.S. District Judge Richard Leon were written in the style of a lengthy social media post by Trump, complete with random capitalization, exclamation points, and phrases frequently used by the 79-year-old president.

Trump even https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116481910110003463" rel="" target="_self" title="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116481910110003463">shared screenshots of the nine-page legal filings to Truth Social on Tuesday morning.

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