@mmasnick I don’t think I’ve ever seen sanctions that high.
@Popehat he won’t pay.
@mikec415 @Popehat maybe (probably?) not, but maybe more impactful is what this does to anyone’s willingness to work for him. Whose willing to risk a million dollars in sanctions to file his next nonsense suit?
@mgaruccio @mikec415 @Popehat
Unfortunately, there's always another sucker, another person who genuinely falls victim to the man's cult of personality and thinks that they, alone, have the legal chops to successfully prosecute a case with less evidentiary standing than Russell's Teapot.
@theogrin @mikec415 @Popehat your probably right, but it’s hard to believe there’s a kind of law firms waiting to risk that kind of $ on a client already known for not paying their bills.

@mgaruccio @mikec415 @Popehat

Hard as it is to believe, by the time the suit was filed Trump had already shown a long-standing commitment to never settling his obligations, and still they lined up in the hopes that he might invite him into his circle of illusory wealth and fame, like Bernie Madoff but with even less justification.

P.T. Barnum never actually said "There's a sucker born every minute," but the phrase certainly seems to hold true, even amongst those smart enough to pass the bar.