President Donald Trump has sued another major media outlet, this time The New York Times for libeling him with slander, or … something. But hey, one of his lawyers in the lawsuit is Alejandro Brito, so you know this thing will be concise, levelheaded, and airtight.

Wait, wait—we’re getting word that this suit actually looks like this.

As a threshold matter, it does not take a lawyer to understand that this is not an actual complaint. It’s partly an extended bout of whining, partly an extortion attempt (Trump wants $15 billion in damages), and partly Trump trying to tee up a case for the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark defamation case that theoretically protects the media against just this kind of sham lawsuit.

And this suit is 85 pages long. It contain

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