Trump is Lashing Out Because He’s Losing
Norman Eisen Mar 22, 2025
Friday was a surreal split screen for me. On the one hand, press coverage was dominated by the capitulation to Donald Trump of what was heretofore one of our nation’s finest and heretofore most courageous law firms, Paul Weiss. In one form or another, I’ve worked closely with them for years, and as one very senior public official asked me, “What the f**k?”
The other side of the split screen was the latest salvo in Trump’s attacks on me. Throughout the day, reporters and others reached out to alert me that Trump was about to make another move against me in retaliation for my legal fights against him. I replied that I would not yield, no matter what Trump had planned, then proved it by filing with wonderful partners my latest lawsuit against his administration to reverse the shuttering of Voice of America.
By the time Trump’s Executive Order with my name in it arrived at the end of the day, it was thoroughly anticlimactic. He listed me together with a handful of far more notable bipartisan, pro-democratic grandees in an Executive Order stripping us of our security clearances and the right to enter secure federal buildings unescorted.
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>>> President Donald Trump is once again raising eyebrows with his claim on Friday that he didn’t sign a proclamation invoking the arcane wartime law, which his administration leaned on to carry out last weekend’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, CNN reported.
The stunning denial came as Trump took questions from reporters before boarding Marine One, including one surrounding the fury U.S. District Judge James Boasberg unleashed on DOJ attorneys at a hearing Friday as he pressed them on why the proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was "signed in the dark.”
“And I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters. “Other people handled it. But Marco Rubio’s done a great job, and he wanted them out. And we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
The new development in the deportation battle – which continues to play out in real time in court – was subjected to a brutal fact-check by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, who said flatly: “It is his signature.”
CNN flags curious 'discrepancy' as Trump denies signing order — featuring his signature
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Readers might not BELIEVE how FORCEFULLY I have CUSSED TRUMP OUT -- daring him to COME AFTER ME -- via the SECURED SERVER FORM for the WHITE HOUSE !!!
