Plaintiffs said the “volcano of corruption, if allowed to go forward, will mark an inflection point in American history.”
A federal judge refused to halt the UFC Freedom 250 cage fights set for this weekend at the White House, despite a lawsuit that called the event a “volcano of corruption” that will mark “the first private, for-profit sporting event ever held on White House grounds.”
In a ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, said he rejected the plaintiffs’ emergency application because they failed “to establish both a substantial likelihood of standing and irreparable harm, and because the equities and public interest weigh against emergency relief.”
The case was brought by activist Susan Douglas and Vietnam War veteran Paul Romano, who challenged the use of the Lincoln Memorial chamber and the South Lawn of the White House. Represented by the Public Integrity Project, they alleged that the event runs afoul of federal regulations and isn’t the purely patriotic display that Donald Trump and UFC head Dana White have portrayed.
This is such a huge blunder in so many ways, truly, deeply humiliating to all Americans.
So pathetic.
I’m seeing a deluge of beer cups being thrown, every other person in a fight, and several people crushed under the monster trucks trump ordered to be driven into the crowd.
Glorious.
