Sucks to Be Trump

Shortly before he would have had to sit down for discovery Trump dropped his lawsuit against his former lawyer Michael Cohen. 

This is not a surprise.  Cohen knows where the bodies are buried, and would know what questions to ask during that session, and because it is a civil trial, if Trump were to refuse to answer questions, that could be used against him in this trial.  (That refusal could not be used in the criminal cases against him)

Trump blinked:

Donald J. Trump on Thursday dropped a lawsuit he had filed against his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, abandoning what has been seen as an effort to silence Mr. Cohen, who has become one of the former president’s loudest critics.

The decision to drop the case came just days before Mr. Trump was scheduled to be questioned under oath by Mr. Cohen’s lawyers. It also comes on the verge of Mr. Cohen’s testifying against Mr. Trump in an unrelated civil fraud case brought by the New York attorney general.

Mr. Cohen, a longtime Trump defender turned antagonist, is also a star witness against the former president in a criminal case, and a person familiar with the matter said Mr. Trump had been cognizant of that fact when he filed the suit.

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Mr. Trump’s lawsuit had accused Mr. Cohen of “spreading falsehoods” about him. It specified Mr. Cohen’s role in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal case against the former president.

The lawsuit raised concerns about whether Mr. Trump was seeking to intimidate Mr. Cohen into backing down from his testimony. Although legal experts said it did not amount to witness tampering, Mr. Cohen saw it as a threat.

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Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers were concerned about his giving a deposition in the case while he was facing four criminal indictments in four jurisdictions along the East Coast. They feared he might say something damaging that could be used by prosecutors in those cases, according to the person familiar with the matter.

It's a truly pissant move from a true pissant.