'Sour grapes': Legal expert says Trump's own rhetoric helped deliver him a court loss

Donald Trump’s own words helped sink one of his administration's string of legal battles in recent days, according to former Obama White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen, who also launched his own response to the president’s escalating attacks on him personally.

The remarks came a day after Trump suffered two major legal blows, including one that blocked efforts by Elon Musk’s DOGE-led efforts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development – a challenge that Eisen led as executive chair of State Democracy Defenders Fund and lawyer representing the 26 anonymous plaintiffs in the case.

He said in a CNN interview Wednesday that Trump’s rhetoric – including in a speech he delivered at the Justice Department last week where he hurled attacks at him and the judicial system – was “just another example of sour grapes.”

Trump’s own words have also proved fatal in court, Eisen added.

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“We just won a big case yesterday in federal district court in Maryland, where Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's own admissions – the issue in that case is Elon Musk is he a principal office does he have significant responsibility – Donald Trump's admissions that Elon Musk is in charge of DOGE and Elon Musk's admissions helped us win that case," he said.

Eisen went on to tell host Erin Burnett that Trump was “lashing out” during his speech at the Justice Department “because he's losing in these cases, including in front of Republican-appointed judges.”

“He's going to have a hard time at the Supreme Court,” Eisen said. “Donald Trump doesn't like losing. He’s going to lose again on the court orders issue. He can't defy court orders. Whatever the underlying substance may be, he's gone too far on this.”

Eisen, who helped prosecute Trump’s impeachment case as special counsel to the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, added: “Losing is never good, and it's stimulating political and popular resistance to Donald Trump's autocratic overtures.”

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