Posted on 01/27/2017 11:11:44 AM PST by RummyChick
First Lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a $150 million libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published last summer about claims that Trump worked as a "high-end escort."
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Sharon Burrell rejected arguments from lawyers for blogger Webster Tarpley to dismiss Trump's suit for failing to meet the "actual malice" standard for public figures. The judge also turned down Tarpley's effort to dismiss the suit under a Maryland law aimed at quickly shutting down bad-faith lawsuits intended to intimidate people speaking out on issues of public concern.
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Excellent!
Sue(sp) that Asshole into bankruptcy!
Love it!
Webster Tarpley is a despicable vermin.
Hope Trump’s lawsuit bankrupts him, and exposes who his “backers” actually are. Sue them too.
How’s that old Jim Croce song go?
“You don’t tug on Superman’s cape.
You don’t spit into the wind.
You don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger....
....and you don’t call the President’s wife a whore.”
These jackwagons deserve every bad thing coming their way.
Webster Griffin Tarpley (born September 1946) is an American author, historian, journalist, lecturer and critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Some of his publications revolve around conspiracy theories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Tarpley
He’s a 9/11 Truther and Lyndon LaRouche Wacko.
Her Honor is a black Democrat, not a natural ally of Melania Trump. This is great, indeed.
Still Winning, Next Rosie.
Saying you hate someone’s politics is one thing... Saying they are a hooker when they are not and you have no evidence they are is a whole ‘nother thing.
Weasley Tarpit’s in trouble.
overcoming the actual malice standard is Yuge.
Is he a relative of Herb Tarlick?
Bravo!!!
Alinskyism.......
update! she won the blogger case and refiled the Daily Mail case in NY:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/07/blogger-forced-to-pay-substantial-sum-to-melania-trump-in-defamation-lawsuit.html
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