'Horton Hears a Coup': Former prosecutor slams Trump's 'clownish' Dr. Seuss motion

'Horton Hears a Coup': Former prosecutor slams Trump's 'clownish' Dr. Seuss motion
Former President Donald Trump (image via Nicholas Kamm/AFP).

Donald Trump's legal team is embarrassing itself with a recent filing in the D.C. criminal case the former president is facing, a former prosecutor said.

Team Trump compared Special Counsel Jack Smith to the "Grinch" in a recent filing in the case, which is being overseen by Judge Chutkan, because the prosecutor sought an expedited schedule the defense said that would make them work through Christmas. Smith filed a reply, saying that he's no Grinch and that, "If the Court today enters a briefing order consistent with the Government’s request, the defendant’s brief would be due no later than December 23."

Now, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is tearing Trump's grinchy filing apart.

Kirschner calls the motion "clownish," and says, "If they felt compelled to cite Dr. Seuss, they should have chosen one that more accurately describes the state of affairs. Perhaps: Horton Hears a Coup."

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"In the event you thought Donald Trump's defense attorneys couldn't get any more inappropriate, outrageous, absurd? Hang on, here is some new reporting," Kirschner says before reading a news report from NBC about the motion citing the Grinch.

"No, Jack Smith is not trying to stop Christmas from coming. Jack Smith is trying to hold Donald Trump accountable for the most egregious democracy-busting crimes by a president in our nation's history," the ex-prosecutor said in a video posted to social media on Friday. "Because even during the holiday season, justice matters."

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One of Trump's own cabinet members compared him to his liberal nemesis, according to a new report.

In the book Regime Change, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is revealed to say that Trump is the same as billionaire liberal donor George Soros, according to reporting by The Guardian.

"Trump reminded him...of his old boss, the legendary investor and major Democratic donor George Soros," reads a passage of the book shared by The Guardian in which Bessent speaks to his associates. "'They are the same animal,' Bessent said."

Soros is a constant target of MAGA and Trump, who even threatened to investigate him for racketeering in Truth Social posts. Bessent worked as the chief investment officer at the Soros Fund Management and reportedly played a big role in building the fortune that has fueled Soros’ political and charitable donations, according to previous reporting.

Last year, Bessent reportedly told a room full of billionaires that both Trump and Soros are "impatient," according to reporting by Bloomberg.

The Regime Change passage highlighted in The Guardian reporting details how negotiations between Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy stalled because Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick fought over how a minerals deal should be worded.

Trump reportedly went around Bessent and Lutnick and "asked J.D. Vance's wife, Usha, also a Yale Law School graduate, to review the Ukrainian edits to the minerals deal," according to a passage from the book published by The Guardian. "She declared the document 'awful,' and [took] a heavy pencil to it."

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President Donald Trump’s coveted peace deal with Tehran was dealt a devastating blow Saturday after Iranian officials announced they would, again, be closing the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping vessels.

In a message from the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces operational headquarters, Iranian military officials announced that the strait – a critical shipping waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows – would be closed due to the “flagrant bad faith and breach of covenant by America regarding the failure to implement the first clause of the end-of-war agreement,” according to the Iranian Fars News Agency.

The first clause of the 14-point memorandum of understanding agreed to by Washington and Tehran requires Israel to halt its bombardment of Lebanon, which Israel has refused to abide by since the signing of the tentative agreement.

“The brutal massacre and displacement of hundreds of thousands of the oppressed people of this land, and also in light of the occupying Zionist forces' refusal to withdraw from the lands of southern Lebanon, it declares that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to the passage of vessels,” the Iranian military officials said, according to an English translation of Fars News Agency’s reporting.

Political strategist and commentator Keith Edwards claimed Friday that he was paid a visit by the FBI over comments he made online – more specifically, comments about President Donald Trump’s botched $14 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued with algae and peeling paint just days after completion.

On Friday morning, Edwards issued a plea on social media: he offered to pay anyone willing to send him a piece of the “‘American flag blue’ paint peeling off the reflecting pool,” insisting he “must have it and frame it.” He also offered to pay $86.47, a reference to the term the Justice Department cited in its criminal indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, which some conservatives have interpreted as a threat to Trump's life.

Just hours later, Edwards took to social media again to provide his more than 175,000 followers on X an update.

“The FBI just showed up at my door because I tweeted about people picking up paint debris and sending it to me,” Edwards wrote Friday evening. “I asked them where's Savannah Guthrie's mom.”

Trump’s FBI has been reported to have visited the homes of other critics of the administration, including participants in the No Kings protests. The FBI has also visited Americans’ homes over social media posts critical of Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza, which countless human rights groups and a United Nations committee have labeled a genocide.

Edwards has amassed nearly 1.3 million subscribers on his political commentary YouTube channel and previously worked on Michael Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign.

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