The summary compares Trump to the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was persecuted by the Catholic Church for spreading the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun.
“Most people used to believe that these were strange ideas; many still do. But strange ideas sometimes turn out to be true. “The earth revolves around the sun, and it was Hunter Biden, not Russian disinformation agents, who dumped a laptop full of incriminating evidence at a Delaware repair shop,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. “Galileo spent his remaining days under house arrest for spreading heretical ideas, and thousands of dissidents today are arrested or killed by despotic governments eager to suppress ideas they disapprove of.” But that’s not the American way.”
Trump’s brief also described as “accurate or at least debatable” the notion that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen.”
Shooting — even legal ones — in Silicon Valley is nothing new for the former president. The new filing came in connection with one of a series of class-action lawsuits he filed last year against social media giants, accusing Twitter, Facebook and YouTube of censoring him and his supporters. In May, a judge threw out Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter for banning him from the platform, saying 9th Circuit precedent precludes the kind of claim Trump is leveling against private parties that allegedly engage in censorship. government order. The new filing comes on the eve of Trump’s “big announcement” at Mar-a-Lago, where he plans to announce a presidential run in 2024.
The statement also comes after Trump welcomed a new lawyer to his team handling litigation against social media firms: former 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. Kozinski stepped down from the bench in 2017 amid sexual misconduct investigations.
Trump filed the lawsuits in federal court in south Florida, but judges transferred them to northern California under provisions in the companies’ user agreements that send such cases to courts near the companies’ San Francisco Bay Area headquarters.
