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 court documents Monday suggesting the alleged assassination attempt against Trump during Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association 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 shared screenshots of the nine-page legal filings to Truth Social on Tuesday morning.
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