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William Kennedy

Yikes, Donald Trump’s attempt to weaponize the DOJ to erase his ‘past’ just blew up in his face

Donald Trump just hit another legal brick wall—and this one has “Department of Justice is not your cleanup crew” stamped all over it.

A federal appeals court has officially denied Trump’s latest attempt to wriggle free of his costly defamation loss to writer E. Jean Carroll. His maneuver? A Hail Mary-style motion invoking the Westfall Act, a law designed to protect federal employees, not shield ex-presidents from civil fallout over personal misconduct.

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