Iowa pollster Ann Selzer files motion to dismiss Donald Trump lawsuit

nsurprisingly, Trump was enraged at the poll, and neither winning the election (including a double-digit victory in Iowa) nor Selzer’s retirement did much to soothe his ruffled feathers. Later that month, Trump called for Selzer and the newspaper to be investigated and then followed that up with a lawsuit in December.

Geez, what a baby. Already "proved them wrong" and the person is retired now. Still needs to throw out his vengeance, though

“Undaunted by the poor fit between commercial transactions and speech on public affairs, Plaintiffs try to pound their square peg into a round hole without any attempt to reconcile the constitutional mismatch,” the attorneys wrote. “Plaintiffs are hardly the first to use artful pleading seeking to evade the First Amendment, and courts are adept at seeing through such artifice.”

This is just brutal. I don't know if this tactic ever actually succeeded (trying to move around first amendment protections with a "fraud" charge), but Every attempt should be met with this amount of scorn for the attempt.