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“I hate Taylor Swift,” Donald Trump declared in an all-caps Truth Social post on Sunday. Eddy Grant probably isn’t on his Christmas card list either. A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Trump is liable to pay damages to the reggae musician for his 2020 campaign’s unauthorized use of “Electric Avenue,” the BBC reports. According to the lawsuit, a 40-second clip of the song was used in an ad posted on Trump’s Twitter account in August 2020, reports the Guardian. It was viewed almost 14 million times before it was taken down in response to a cease-and-desist letter from Grant’s lawyers, a…

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