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Chuck Darwin<p>Trump Media &amp; Technology Group and its merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, <br> have both been rocked by legal warfare. </p><p>Their leaders, past and present, have traded heated accusations of <a href="https://c.im/tags/deception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deception</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/impropriety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impropriety</span></a> across<br>💥four lawsuits in three states. 💥</p><p>After Trump was booted from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, <br>👉three men played pivotal roles in building and promoting Trump Media as an online challenger against the “cancel culture” of Big Tech: </p><p>🔸<a href="https://c.im/tags/Andy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Andy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Litinsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Litinsky</span></a> and 🔸<a href="https://c.im/tags/Wes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moss</span></a>, former “Apprentice” contestants who co-founded and launched Truth Social; <br>and 🔸<a href="https://c.im/tags/Patrick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patrick</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orlando" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orlando</span></a>, who as chief executive of Digital World, a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, offered Trump’s company a path to investor cash.</p><p>🔥But all three are now leading a rebellion of their own, confronting and potentially imperiling a trophy of Trump’s post-presidential ambitions. </p><p>Their lawsuits call into question how Trump Media’s shares will be distributed, and a legal victory could chip away at Trump’s equity during a time when he is facing a cash crunch.</p><p>And the cases threaten to erode Trump’s grasp on a stake in the post-merger company potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars <br>— a possible financial lifeline, given that he owes more than $500 million in legal fines.</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/21/truth-social-trump-merger-lawsuits/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/technology/</span><span class="invisible">2024/03/21/truth-social-trump-merger-lawsuits/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Devin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Devin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nunes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jr</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robert</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lighthizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lighthizer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Linda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linda</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McMahon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McMahon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DJT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DJT</span></a></p>
Leftist Lawyer<p>What troubles me even more than the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/impropriety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impropriety</span></a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> peddling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> accepts, is that the rest of the justices have never, ever, to my knowledge made a stink about it. Zip. Zero. Nada.</p><p>This impresses me as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/systemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemic</span></a> problem. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cabal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cabal</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elite</span></a> enthusiastically turning their heads to the improprieties of their fellows, to preserve the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privilege</span></a> they are all benefitting from.</p><p>If the one is implicated, all must be implicated, if we are to see any chance at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a>. Because, as concerns the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a>, change can only come from the top.</p><p>So, please. Don’t look down your nose at Clarence Thomas, while ignoring the fact that the other justices are not only enabling his behavior, but most likely partaking in it to varying degrees as well.</p><p>Be loud. Hold them all to account.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FightBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FightBack</span></a><br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/clarenc</span><span class="invisible">e-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow</span></a></p>