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Donald Trump Sends Legal Demand Over Comment From MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell ("Russian loans")
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 28, 2019 | Eriq Gardner

Posted on 08/28/2019 11:22:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The president's personal attorney tells NBCU brass that legal proceedings could be pursued if there's no retraction or apology for stating that "Russian oligarchs" co-signed loans to Trump.

Donald Trump is ratcheting up his war with the media, as if such thing was conceivable. On Wednesday, his personal attorney Charles Harder threatened NBCUniversal with a defamation suit over what was broadcast the previous night on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. A missive sent to NBCU headquarters, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, also addresses a related tweet.

According to Harder's demand letter, "The Program and Tweet make the false and defamatory statements that 'Russian oligarchs' co-signed loans provided to Mr. Trump by Deutsche Bank, and described these 'co-signers' as 'Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.'”

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: media; msm; msnbc; russia
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To: DoodleDawg

Who would that be Doodoo?


21 posted on 08/28/2019 1:40:27 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: deadrock

What’s the frequency of the hammering, kenneth?


22 posted on 08/28/2019 1:43:09 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doesn’t sound like a retraction to me. All he said was he made an error in judgment by reporting something before it had been verified. NOT a retraction!!! Sic him DJT!!!


23 posted on 08/28/2019 2:10:59 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: McGruff
"our rigorous verification and standards process."

LOL

24 posted on 08/28/2019 4:55:33 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: Sacajaweau

yeah, just like Soros, Rothschilds, Epsteins, Kochs, etc. Globalist Oligarchs.


25 posted on 08/28/2019 7:27:41 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: hanamizu
"...but Trump has a nearly impossible task>.."

True, but he is regularly faced with many "nearly impossible" tasks, and his track record so far is remarkable.

They won't sue, but if they do, my money's on Trump.

26 posted on 08/28/2019 11:47:50 PM PDT by Gargantua (Never leave home without it... ;^)
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