Trump doesn’t have enough legal action going on so he’s suing, suing I tell you.

Donald J. Trump has claimed in a lawsuit in a London court that Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, inflicted “personal and reputational damage and distress” on him by leaking a dossier detailing unsavory, unproven accounts of links between him and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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In a court filing last month, Mr. Trump’s lawyers said he was “compelled to explain to his family, friends, and colleagues that the embarrassing allegations about his private life were untrue. This was extremely distressing” for him, the filing said, asserting that Mr. Steele had presented the claims in a “sensationalist manner” that was “calculated to cause tremendous embarrassment” to Mr. Trump. He is asking for unspecified compensation.

That’s just silly. Trump is incapable of embarrassment. He’s too conceited to be capable of embarrassment.

Mr. Trump’s foray into the British courts comes as he is facing a raft of criminal and civil charges in the United States, on accusations ranging from election interference to inflating the value of his real estate assets — all of which he has denied. He has experienced a string of legal setbacks in courtrooms from Manhattan to South Florida.

But in London, Mr. Trump is the plaintiff, and legal experts said his lawyers were trying to seize an advantage from Britain’s comparatively tight controls on personal data. Winning a claim that his data had been compromised, these lawyers said, would be easier than winning a claim of defamation.

“It avoids the obvious hurdles of a U.K. defamation claim,” said Jay Joshi, a media lawyer with the London firm Taylor Hampton. These include the statute of limitations for defamation, normally a year, and the fact that the dossier was published in the United States, not Britain. “Trump is clearly seeking some form of vindication,” Mr. Joshi said.

So the guff about being embarrassed is superfluous as well as not even slightly credible.

A month ago, on September 11, the president of Penn State explained about free speech and the First Amendment, while carefully also wringing her hands about how hurtful some speech can be – “not only offensive but deeply hurtful” she emphasized, without explaining the difference.

Today, it seems, Penn State canceled a talk by Riley Gaines, on account of how…um…er…

Phoning it in much?

Is it, as the South East Technological University (SETU) claims, “unlawful” to refuse to address someone by their preferred name or use their chosen pronouns? It isn’t and it shouldn’t be. But it is bad manners – and deliberate discourtesy is not a trivial matter.

I don’t understand why anyone has a problem calling people by the names they prefer. I’ve been doing it almost all my life.

If Fintan O’Toole really doesn’t understand then he hasn’t been paying attention. Easy for him, isn’t it. Women, on the other hand, have compelling reasons to be wary of men who order us to call them “Nellie” while taking over our spaces and even our feminism.

It started when I was four. I entered the junior infants’ class in the Marist convent school in Crumlin. I discovered that I had to call nuns Sister even though they were not my sisters. I learned that the head nun had to be addressed as Mother, even though I had a mother and it wasn’t her.

Uh…yes, and that’s quite creepy, and not something to hold up as a shining example of “what could possibly be wrong with this???” Convent schools are not self-evidently a good thing, and ordering small children to use religious terminology when addressing the teachers is also not self-evidently a good thing. I, for one, think it’s a bad thing.

When I was a kid, I accepted these rituals of nomenclature out of a sense of religious duty.

Exactly, and religious duty is not something that should be imposed on everyone (or for that matter anyone). People have a right to refuse religion. That’s a much stronger and more necessary right than the “right” for a man to be called Betsy.

There’s an obvious imbalance of power between teachers and their students. That places a particular onus on the teacher not to abuse that power and on the school or university to make sure that the student is treated with respect.

So Colette Colfer, the lecturer at SETU who has objected to the university’s gender inclusion policy, is right to question the university’s implication that “staff and students at higher education institutions [are] required, by law, to use a person’s preferred pronouns”. But I think she’s wrong to go further and claim that requiring staff to use a person’s preferred mode of address “could result in discrimination against those who do not subscribe to gender identity theory”.

It really couldn’t. If I call the SETU chaplain Father because that’s what common courtesy requires, I am not subscribing to the teachings and beliefs of the Catholic church.

Yes you are. That’s the problem. That’s why they do it. Most professions don’t do that. Very few academics are pompous enough to demand the “Doctor” label on all occasions, and the same goes for judges and medical doctors. Computer scientists don’t even have a title to refrain from demanding. If the church can make everyone think it’s a polite obligation to call them Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, then that’s a big head start on getting us to grovel in other ways. We’re free to think we comply just to be polite, but the reality is it’s way more than mere politeness.

Same with calling men Betsy.

A good thing for a change.

Outside Sydney Opera House:

Australian police said on Tuesday they were investigating a pro-Palestinian protest outside Sydney Opera House, after footage emerged of a small group appearing to chant anti-Semitic slogans at the demonstration.

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Unverified footage shared by the Australian Jewish Association and featured on Sky News appeared to show a small group outside the Opera House lighting flares and chanting “gas the Jews”.

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Protest organiser Palestine Action Group Sydney defended its right to protest “apartheid” in Israel but said a small number of “vile antisemitic attendees” had no place in their movement.

There was an interesting (and heated) discussion about Israel and apartheid on Start the Week yesterday.

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I suspect that the reasons that they formed a ‘church’ were tax avoidance and lack of oversight; the latter enabled them to avoid prosecution for years, despite numerous complaints, injuries and deaths.

Because of the abuse of autistic children, there were a lot of campaigns from autistic advocates over the years; but the wheels of justice were clamped until governments finally made it illegal to administer the specific ingredients to children.

The ‘church’ had got away with it by handing out the ingredients and then giving unrecorded spoken instructions to the ‘congregation’ which, when followed, turned the MMS into a powerful industrial bleach.

Parents enthusiastically shared photos in online groups of the intestinal lining passed by the poor abused children, claiming that they were ‘parasites’ and were ‘causing’ the autism. Children were forced, often daily, to drink MMS solution, bathe in it, and have MMS enemas. The parents were told by the ‘church’ that the more the children objected, the higher the dose was needed; until, immensely sick and exhausted, the children gave up. The monstrous adults then saw that as a sign that the treatment was working, and maintained the dosage.

How do we cure autism? We don’t. How do we integrate autistic people into society? By teaching us the social skills developed by the non-autistic majority because they’re easy for non-autistic children to pick up, and giving us logical reasons for following them (even if the ‘logic’ is just “Other people prefer us to behave this way, and your life will be easier if you do so too”).

It’s interesting that one way to poison people for $$$ is to tell them you’re a church. God and poison in one easy visit, hurrah!

A Florida man and three sons who used a business masquerading as a church to sell more than $1 million of a deadly bleach solution that they claimed was a “miracle” cure for Covid-19 and other diseases were each sentenced on Friday to several years in prison, federal prosecutors in Miami said.

Mark Grenon, 66, of Bradenton, Fla., and one of his sons, Joseph Grenon, 36, were sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to defraud the government, while the two other sons, Jonathan Grenon, 37, and Jordan Grenon, 29, were sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for defrauding the government and contempt of court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a news release.

“The Grenons poisoned thousands of people with their bogus miracle cure, which was nothing more than industrial bleach,” Michael Homer, an assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, said in a statement. “They targeted vulnerable people who were suffering from life-threatening illnesses and who were desperate for a cure.”

Prosecutors said that the Food and Drug Administration had received reports of people requiring hospitalizations, developing life-threatening conditions and dying after drinking the product.

Drinking bleach. It’s hard to believe. Bleach dissolves stuff.

The sentencing capped a three-year-long case in which the Grenons were accused of selling the treatment, named “Miracle Mineral Solution,” online under the guise of a church called Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, which Mark Grenon had co-founded. The product, they claimed, could cure Covid-19, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, H.I.V.-AIDS, and leukemia among other serious diseases, prosecutors said.

How about fentanyl addiction? Any good with that?

Good to know Musk is careful with information at least.

As false information about the rapidly changing war between Gaza Strip militants and Israel proliferated on the social media platform X over the weekend, owner Elon Musk personally recommended that users follow accounts notorious for promoting lies.

“For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on the platform formerly called Twitter on Sunday morning to 150 million follower accounts. That post was viewed 11 million times in three hours, drawing thanks from those two accounts, before Musk deleted it.

Both were among the most important early spreaders of a false claim in May that there had been an explosion near the White House. The Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index briefly dropped 85 points before that story was debunked.

Thanks, Eelz. Impressive. Good subject to get wrong; very helpful.

Information researchers said that the new conflict was an early test of how the revamped X conveys accurate data during a major crisis, and that the immediate impression was poor [bad].

Well at least the subject isn’t all that important.

X and other real-time sources of information are especially subject to rumors, false claims and propaganda during major events.

Researchers have said that X has gotten much less reliable since Musk took control nearly a year ago. He ended the practice of awarding “verified” checks to established media accounts, stopped labeling some accounts as government-affiliated and began sending money to accounts drawing heavy engagement, rewarding views instead of accuracy.

Hey now. Have some respect. That’s capitalism at its finest – whatever sells the most is the best.

Last week, Musk said he would change the way articles are shared by removing the headlines and promoting only pictures, which experts said would decrease traffic to news sites.

But pictures are more fun, and faster.

Musk also has been contributing to a broader legal and political campaign that has succeeded in quieting some academics and research groups who track misinformation by accusing them of fostering unconstitutional censorship. He has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League over its reports showing a rise in antisemitic posts on X since Musk bought it last October.

Oh ffs. Abandoning the sarcasm now. Misinformation and disinformation are not “free speech.” I bet he knows that when people tell damaging lies about him.

Nobel Prize in economics goes to a woman. Guess what her field is.

This year’s Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian, for her work on women’s employment and pay.

Prof Goldin’s research uncovered key drivers behind the gender pay gap, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

By “gender pay gap” the BBC means the fact that women earn less than men. Funny that it’s so taken for granted they don’t feel a need to spell it out.

And then the punchline:

She is only the third woman to receive the prize, and the first to not share the award with male colleagues.

Gender prize gap innit.

Isn’t it interesting that this kind of thing just goes on and on and on being the case, yet we’re told to consider men who pretend to be women “the most vulnerable” people on the planet? I think it’s interesting. I think it’s interesting that mainstream institutions like the BBC and Parliament and the police and the CPS take it for granted that women are paid less and given prizes less, but jump up and down in hysterics over the supposed agonies of men who pretend to be women.

Grown-up news outlets shouldn’t be talking about manufactured babies this way:

This Is Going to Hurt author and ex-doctor Adam Kay is shattered, which is hardly surprising – he’s just been mopping up baby vomit and is clearly sleep-deprived.

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Kay and his husband, Games of Thrones producer James Farrell, share Ruby, aged 10 months, and Ziggy, six months, whom they had via surrogates.

They didn’t “have” anything. Two nameless women who obviously don’t matter did the having. Kay and his husband paid two women to carry and gestate and push out babies for them. It’s revolting to see an adult institution like the BBC prattle about babies that two men “had via surrogates.”

A music festival before dawn in a forest clearing near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel:

The music festival, known as Nova, was so loud that Cohen, who is thirty-one and lives in Tel Aviv, saw the rockets before he heard their sound. A handful of police officers soon arrived and broke up the party, shouting “Color Red”—code in Israel for incoming rocket fire.

As partygoers scrambled toward their cars or lay on the ground waiting for the barrage to pass, another kind of fire began. Cohen watched as four pickup trucks filled with armed militants and gunmen on motorcycles encircled the road leading out of the event venue, which was bottlenecked with cars attempting to flee the area. “They were shooting at people just a metre away,” Cohen told me over the phone on Sunday. “These were executions. We were like ducks in a firing range.”

The music festival was one of the first sites targeted by the unprecedented Hamas ground incursion into Israel. It is also perhaps the deadliest. At least two hundred and sixty [were] killed there, according to Israel’s search-and-rescue organization.

Allah hates music and the people who like music, especially the female ones.

The Sydney Morning Herald last month:

Hatred against trans people and a “radical precedent” in anti-discrimination law would flow from a lesbian group being allowed to invite only biological females to its events, Victoria’s peak union body has warned.

It’s not hatred for lesbians to have lesbian-only events. Women are the only people who can be lesbians; men can never be lesbians. Men who call themselves lesbians remain men. It’s not “hatred” to understand that men can’t be lesbians.

An application by the recently formed Lesbian Action Group to lawfully exclude trans women from a “Lesbians Born Female” event has caused a heated rift, with equality and inclusion advocates squaring off against women’s rights groups.

What about equality for women? What about inclusion of women? What about supporting equality and inclusion and rights for women?

The Lesbian Action Group, an organisation formed by veterans of the lesbian rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s, wants to stage its event at the government-funded Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne next month to celebrate International Lesbian Day, and has applied for a five-year exemption from the Sex Discrimination Act.

So the Sex Discrimination Act requires everyone to pretend that men can be women?

The application triggered a flurry of submissions, published by the Australian Human Rights Commission, which echo arguments raging more broadly within political and feminist circles and women’s sporting and cultural institutions over how to balance gender inclusion and sex-based rights.

It can’t be done, not the way it’s being framed currently. It’s not possible to “balance” women’s rights with an imperative to pretend that some men are women. If men can invade and take every single thing women have just by saying “I’m a woman” then women have no rights.

In a joint submission, 15 community and legal groups – including Equality Australia, the Human Rights Law Centre, Transgender Victoria and Dykes on Bikes, which leads the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade – said while it was important for lesbians to gather to celebrate their culture, it was unnecessary to exclude trans women and other queer groups.

Well you can’t have both.

The kind of trans woman who feels entitled to go to a lesbian event is the kind of trans woman who will want to use up all the oxygen at the event. Men who want to destroy everything women have by invading it and taking it are not going to stay politely in the background at lesbian events, they’re going to dominate everything they can.

The day after this masthead first reported the details of the Lesbian Action Group’s application, Pride Centre management wrote a letter to the group setting out its reasons. “Your request to hold an event that excludes and seeks to legally discriminate against people on the bases of their sex, sexuality and gender is inconsistent with the Pride Centre’s purpose,” the group was told.

So what is the Pride Centre’s purpose? To be a centre for everyone? Then what does the “Pride” part mean? It used to mean lesbian and gay; is that all over now?

Victorian Trades Hall assistant secretary Wilhelmina Stracke said the name of the proposed event revealed it true purpose.

“The Lesbian Action Group seeks to exclude transgender people from their events because they refuse to accept that transgender women are women,” Stracke told the commission. “This application seeks to exclude and discriminate against the most marginalised and discriminated against group of people in Victoria for no reason other than that the applicants dislike transgender people.”

But transgender women are not women; that’s what the “transgender” modifier means. If they were women there would be no need for the word “transgender” in front.

And who says men who call themselves women are the most marginalised and discriminated against group of people in Victoria? Based on what?

And why does Stracke equate knowing that men are men with “dislike” of anyone?

The Victorian Women’s Guild denounced the Victorian Pride Centre’s refusal to stage the event, noting centre management had previously allowed its meeting rooms to be used for trans-only functions.

What’s up with that then? Why is trans-only ok but lesbian-only forbidden?

Anna Kerr, a Sydney lawyer whose Feminist Legal Clinic specialises in domestic violence cases, said an exemption should not be necessary to hold a lesbian-only event.

“This application clearly demonstrates how extreme trans activism has adversely impacted on [harmed] the rights of women and girls,” she submitted.

“If the protections for gender identity, whether at state or federal level, were interpreted in a manner that did not inappropriately conflate the concepts of sex and gender identity, these conflicts would not arise.”

But destroying women’s rights is the whole point.

That’s nice. UN Women celebrates International Lesbian Day by shoving lesbians aside to celebrate men who call themselves lesbians. How solidaritious.

Women speak.

Vice tells us

…we are recirculating this article by British poet, model and activist Kai Isaiah-Jamal about how allies can make the world a better place for trans people. 

But what if we have no ambition to “make the world a better place for trans people”? What if we’re not moved to single out that one particular (very small) set of people for extra concern and pampering? What if, on the contrary, we think they should stop making all these demands for extra special treatment?

Let’s cut the shit – there’s no positive way a cis person can dictate or speak on a life that you do not live and a world you do not have to navigate as a trans person.

See that’s a really bad way to start a plea – let alone a demand – for extra concern and pampering. That kind of start is one reason I have no ambition to single trans people out for extra concern and pampering. They keep demanding extra concern and pampering, in a world riddled with wars and genocides and famines and natural disasters and persecution. It’s ugly. It’s ugly and selfish and precious and utterly clueless. There are literally billions of people on the planet who need extra concern far more than “trans” people in the UK or the US.

There’s that, and then much more trivial but still irritating is this business of starting a “be nicer to us” with “first of all shut up.”

In a world where misconstrued ideas about trans folk – what we need, what we deserve, how we should live – fall from the lips of so many cis people, we need to end the debate on whether trans womxn are womxn, whether we should be able to use the correct bathrooms and changing rooms, and whether we should be parents or teachers. Because it’s not a debate. We are entitled to our human rights just as much as everyone else.

That’s cute, that “fall from the lips” – as if there’s something especially disgusting about “cis” people (meaning women, of course) saying things. Again, great way to persuade us to coddle and cuddle and embrace you.

And the thinking is no good. Of course trans people are entitled to their human rights like everyone else. It’s not a human right to force people to agree that men can be women by saying they are women. It’s not a human right for men to use women’s changing rooms and toilets. It’s not a human right to be a teacher. It’s not even a human right to be a parent in the sense of “no matter what.” If a parent is abusive or dangerous, that parent may lose parental rights.

What we actually need are ears, eyes, and action. We need you to listen to our problems and our voices. We need you to be on the look out for how you can use your privilege for our benefit and not yours, and how to actively respond to, argue with, and call out transphobia in your everyday conversations and the national news.

They need us to give them all our time and attention.

No.

There follows a list of 100 ludicrous demands.

17. If you are called out for being offensive, do not argue. This is not a debate. Apologise. Take a moment to reflect. If necessary, leave or give the space over to those you have offended or upset.

That’s convenient, isn’t it. Trans people are always right and the rest of us are always wrong; no exceptions.

18. Never try to argue with a trans person that something isn’t transphobic.

See above.

29. Talk to the generation above you – your parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. You can’t always change traditional mindsets, but you can give them a new perspective.

People who are older than you are always wrong. There are no exceptions to this rule.

30. Support the generation below; speak to young kids. Make them aware that gender is a spectrum and they don’t have to commit to one gender for their whole life. Educate them on their freedom and choices.

People who are older than you are always wrong except when we are talking to people younger than we are. There are no exceptions to this rule.

39. If you are dating a trans person, try to understand their triggers. For example, me and my partner call my menstrual cycle “Lucifer.” So if I text her to say “Lucifer is here,” she knows to bring chocolate and pillows. You can also try covering tampon or pad boxes and wrapping with cute cartoons or their favourite colour.

40. Buy a whole truckload of pacifiers.

51. Do not make someone feel bad after dragging you for something you have done that is deemed transphobic. Your guilt is not my guilt to feel.

Again – it’s impossible to stress this enough – we are always right, and you are always wrong.

52. Don’t ask what gender dysphoria feels like because it’s a stupid question and there’s no way you can try to understand it.

But you have to act on the assumption that it’s real and powerful and the cause of everything. Clear?

54. Do anything you can to stop trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) from leaving stickers, leaflets etc. Tear down everything you see associated with them.

Feminist women are the enemy. Clear?

63. Offer shelter, money, food etc. The basics of survival are hard for trans folk. If you have enough to spare, try to offer.

Give us all your money. We want it, you have it, hand it over. Now.

70. Decolonise the way you think of gender. Remind yourself that these social constructs are postcolonial issues that the western world have pushed onto people.

Remind yourself that whales can fly and there are fairies at the bottom of the garden.

75. Don’t forget that racism is rife in the queer community and trans people of colour are often the most vulnerable. Protect us.

Wait what? I thought the queer community was the best, the perfect, the only community? It’s rife with racism now? Am I in the wrong classroom?

77. Sex work is a service. Again, this is not up for debate. Do not try to stop trans folk from advocating for and implementing their own safety measures. Do not hide your prejudice against sex workers with fake worry.

This is not up for debate and neither is anything else I say. Shut up and do what I tell you.

88. Fight for our rights. Block and report pages or people spreading hate, too.

Rights are for us. Blocking and reporting is for everyone else.

96. Do not deny your privilege. If you tell me that being a cis heterosexual white man doesn’t mean you haven’t “had it rough,” I will tell you that you are wrong.

And if you tell me that I am wrong, you will be wrong. I am always right, you are always wrong. See above.

98. Not everything needs labels. As my grandmother would say: “Baby, some things just be as they be.”

Which is the opposite of 1-97 but never mind that – avoiding contradiction is for cis people.

This. This is what I keep talking about. Self self self – it’s a trap! Get out of it! There’s a big huge enormous world out there that’s not You: go out and explore it, and do what you can to improve it in some way. Look outward. Let your “personality” and your “identity” and your “true self” take care of themselves. No one is as interested in them as you are, so wriggle out of the trap and embrace the bigger world.

It’s way more than keeping busy and distracted, in my view, although it does of course do that. But you can be “distracted” by interests and activities that are of vast intrinsic value, so distraction is the least of their merits. Break out of the prison of self at all costs.

Narges Mohammadi:

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi. The award citation said Mohammadi received the prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.

The chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, made the announcement in Oslo. Reiss-Andersen began by quoting the slogan of Iranian human rights campaigners, in Farsi and English: “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Woman, Life, Freedom.”

Reiss-Andersen said that altogether the Iranian regime had arrested Mohammadi 13 times, convicted her five times and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Mohammadi remains incarcerated in Iran’s notorious Evin prison.

What a sloppy evidence-free piece in the Guardian:

Belgium’s deputy prime minister, who ranks as one of Europe’s most senior transgender politicians, has urged Rishi Sunak not to join “the real bullies” after remarks made by the British prime minister at the Conservative party conference this week.

Transgender what? The fool reporter never says.

The prime minister’s comments came as it was revealed that the number of hate crimes committed against transgender people last year in England and Wales had climbed to a record high, with the Home Office suggesting in its report that the 11% rise may have been prompted by comments by politicians and media.

Climbed to what number? The 11% rise from what to what? How does the number compare to the number of hate crimes against women?

On Thursday, Petra De Sutter, Europe’s first openly transgender minister, described Sunak’s comments as “hurtful and very disappointing” on social media.

Transgender what? The name isn’t enough; you can’t expect readers to know whether “Petra” is a male name or a female name in Belgium. Sloppy sloppy incompetent journalism.

Attenders at the conference also heard from the health secretary, Steve Barclay, who promised to ban transgender hospital patients in England from being treated in female- and male-only wards.

Really? Or did he promise to keep males out of female-only wards?

Does the Guardian not have editors?

Man who pretends to be a woman wins service award. What’s his “service”? Pretending to be a woman, of course.

Humbled? I bet he’s not a bit humbled.

Diversity! So much diversity! Large white man who pretends to be a woman: what could be more diversity??!

So so so diversity!

The NY Times:

Shortly after he left office, former President Donald J. Trump shared apparently classified information about American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs one of the world’s largest cardboard companies, went on to share the sensitive details about the submarines with several others, the people said. Mr. Trump’s disclosures, they said, potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet.

Whose idea was it to put Elmer Fudd in charge of all this?

Federal prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, learned about Mr. Trump’s disclosures of the secrets to Mr. Pratt, which were first revealed by ABC News, and interviewed him as part of their investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents, the people said.

According to another person familiar with the matter, Mr. Pratt is now among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses who could testify against Mr. Trump at the classified documents trial, which is scheduled to start in May in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Well, unless we get into a nuclear war first.

During his talk with Mr. Pratt, Mr. Trump revealed at least two pieces of critical information about the U.S. submarines’ tactical capacities, according to the people familiar with the matter. Those included how many nuclear warheads the vessels carried and how close they could get to their Russian counterparts without being detected.

Why was this imbecile ever allowed anywhere near such information? His mental age is 6 months.

H/t What a Maroon