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Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Media Outlets, 'Open Up' Libel Laws: 'With Me, They're Not Protected'
Breitbart ^ | 02/26/2016 | Jordan Schachtel

Posted on 02/27/2016 1:22:49 PM PST by MLL

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To: RginTN

BINGO!!


41 posted on 02/27/2016 1:54:25 PM PST by magna carta
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

He’s aware, he just does not care.

Trump will run through America and the Constitution with a flame thrower. Sadly, all too many “conservatives” support that approach. He’s a modern day Sherman’s March.


42 posted on 02/27/2016 1:55:02 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: ConservativeTeen

I have doubts he has bothered to read either...Trump let’s what ever comes into his mind come out of his mouth. I have maintained that I would vote for him if he is nominated but his supporters make it harder and harder. They really are at a new level of annoyance!!!


43 posted on 02/27/2016 1:56:03 PM PST by ontap
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To: Yorlik803
I don't blame you. I see unhinged rant after unhinged rant from Trump supporters, some even saying people should be killed for , all the while accusing Cruz supporters of being deranged. No, that's NOT a movement I'm going to get behind. I want nothing to do with that. Ever.
44 posted on 02/27/2016 1:58:21 PM PST by Nickname
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To: Nickname

I don’t blame you.

I see unhinged rant after unhinged rant from Trump supporters, some even saying people should be killed for (insert offense), all the while accusing Cruz supporters of being deranged.

No, that’s NOT a movement I’m going to get behind. I want nothing to do with that. Ever.

(edited for goof up)


45 posted on 02/27/2016 1:59:45 PM PST by Nickname
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To: ontap

I’m.
Not.
Running.
For.
President.


46 posted on 02/27/2016 2:00:54 PM PST by digger48
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To: Nickname
some even saying people should be killed for

Got anything to back that up with?

47 posted on 02/27/2016 2:02:35 PM PST by digger48
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
I wonder if he is aware of the natural right of freedom of speech, which is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution?

"Constitution? What is this Constitution thing people keep talking about?" - Donald Trump.

48 posted on 02/27/2016 2:02:40 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoughtyOne

Since you agree with me, please explain how one “opens up libel laws”?


49 posted on 02/27/2016 2:02:47 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: digger48

You
are
calling
people
you
disagree
with
names
while
condemning
others
for
it!!
It
Matters
not
if
you

that
you
are
not
running!!!


50 posted on 02/27/2016 2:04:27 PM PST by ontap
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To: Don Corleone

“The 1st Amendment prohibits the government from stopping speech against it...not against people.”

This is indisputably false.


51 posted on 02/27/2016 2:04:28 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: ontap

Maybe when you grow up, you’ll understand.


52 posted on 02/27/2016 2:06:00 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48
You guys fill this site with nothing but your TDS hate and have not changed a single opinion.

+1

I already knew what cruz was the second he came out to the microphones after getting TPA pass and insinuated that we had to pass TPA so we can find out what is in TPP.
53 posted on 02/27/2016 2:07:17 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
I wonder if he is aware of the natural right of freedom of speech,

Headlines, the Detroit News:

"Captain Jack Aubrey of FreeRepublic is an Alleged Pedophile."

"According to ANONYMOUS SOURCES" Captain Jack Aubrey was allegedly seen leading two children off a playground into a wooded area where he is alleged to have.............The investigation is ongoing."

Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing isn't it?

54 posted on 02/27/2016 2:07:55 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: MLL

95% of the “Press” in America are Traitorous Leftist, what Trump is talking about is mild soup compared to what I wish we could do to them.


55 posted on 02/27/2016 2:08:24 PM PST by heights
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

I would imagine it would have to go through Congress.


56 posted on 02/27/2016 2:08:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: digger48

Sure, here’s one just from today.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3402461/posts?page=90#90


57 posted on 02/27/2016 2:12:10 PM PST by Nickname
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To: digger48

You use that a lot...shows a lack of imagination. How old are you??


58 posted on 02/27/2016 2:13:38 PM PST by ontap
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Defamation Law, perhaps you’re heard of it? The 1st Amendment does not protect speech or the press when it damages another, surely you know this. What Trump is referring to is quite recent court decisions that have tilted toward increasingly holding the press unaccountable.

“The 1964 case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, however, radically changed the nature of libel law in the United States by establishing that public officials could win a suit for libel only when they could prove the media outlet in question knew either that the information was wholly and patently false or that it was published “with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not”. Later Supreme Court cases barred strict liability for libel and forbid libel claims for statements that are so ridiculous as to be patently false. Recent cases have added precedent on defamation law and the Internet.”


59 posted on 02/27/2016 2:14:04 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Trump is proposing trashing the first amendment and the trumpanzees cheer.

Boy can’t wait till trump hands the irs his ‘enemies’ list he will make Obama look like a piker.

Thin skinned malignant narcissist like obama


60 posted on 02/27/2016 2:14:52 PM PST by Leto
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