Don’t you just hate when you get to the end of a whodunit only to find out that the most obvious suspect turned out to be the villain? When it does indeed turn out to be the butler who did it all along?
Prepare thusly for the New York Times’ report on Disney’s decision to pay $16 million and throw in the towel on Donald Trump’s defamation suit. Brooke Barnes dispels the notion that this has to do with meta-strategy for the next four years or a desire to bend the knee to Trump. Instead, the deciding factor was “the butler” we all suspected, and the biggest clue was also the most accurate one:
On Friday, Judge Altonaga dealt Disney another setback. She rejected requests to delay the case and ordered near-immediate depositions for Mr. Trump and Mr. Stephanopoulos. Moreover, Disney was also told to turn over “all remaining documents” related to the case —…
