Former President Donald Trump is asking permission to defend himself in a Laramie civil court case that challenges his fitness to appear on the state’s election ballot.
Trump on Tuesday filed a motion to intervene in retired Laramie attorney Tim Newcomb’s Nov. 1 challenge in Albany County District Court, where Newcomb is asking a judge to block Secretary of State Chuck Gray from ever allowing Trump or U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis on the state’s ballots again.
Other than a 2018 action where Trump was named as a defendant in a man’s wrongful termination lawsuit against the Army, this appears to be the former president’s only direct involvement in a Wyoming state case.
‘A Frivolous Claim’
He pulled no punches Tuesday in his proposed motion to dismiss Newcomb’s lawsuit.
Trump called the lawsuit to get him off the ballot “a frivolous claim based on a hodgepodge of irrelevant ‘facts,’” and an “incoherent, sprawling morass” containing “hundreds of alleged factoids, quotes and sentence fragments that range across a wide expanse of irrelevant topics with little or no narrative thread to show how they relate to anything, let alone Plaintiff’s purposed claim.”
He’s asking Albany County District Court Judge Misha Westby to deem Newcomb’s lawsuit frivolous.
Trump’s motion also claims that Newcomb’s complaint is too early, or “not