[eyeamok]

This is where the Judge is being played as the FOOL!! If the Judge had half a brain He/She would IMMEDIATELY ORDER the Attorneys to PROVE THIS CLAIM or Face Contempt, 6 months in Jail and a Referral to the BAR Association for PERMANENT DISBARMENT for Perjury, Perpetrating a FRAUD upon the Court, because this is just FALSE and Easily Provable to be FALSE!

[grey_whiskers]

i’m really beginning to look forward to the firing squads.

[mumblypeg]

Oh yeah?
Still waiting to see that pee tape that “isn’t defamatory.”

[alloysteel]

“Substantially true” - “Fake but accurate” - “Science not facts”. How many ways can a flat LIE be disguised?

Maybe these people did not invent the careful crafting of fabrications, but they have attempted to raise it to an art form.

[ClearCase_guy]

How does anyone measure “substantially” true?

[indthkr]

DNC corruption machine - bump for later....

[jdsteel]

I look forward to hearing their legal arguments, discovery...the whole shebang.

With the Kung Flu lockdown it would be great to broadcast this thing live.

[Maris Crane]

So What?

If there are LIES ABOUT CARTER PAGE, THEN THEY ARE STILL LIES.

[samadams2000]

Is a response to a lawsuit admissible as evidence if it proves the case?

[MileHi]

“Even if the statements at issue — published by third parties named in Page’s first failed lawsuit — could be attributed to Defendants, those statements were substantially true, and thus cannot be defamatory as a matter of law,” the DNC’s attorneys asserted.

This won't age well.

[Robert357]

Gosh, they have absolutely no shame or honor. Everyone knows it was false. The FISA judges have even found it to have been false and the DNC is arguing the absurd position that it is mostly true? Bring Steel over to the USA for questioning (especially by the FBI, just like they set up Flynn and others to charge with lying to the FBI.)

The good news that Biden is proving to have dementia to just about everyone who listens to him and that the Bernie Bro’s are going to destroy the Democratic Party for decades if he is not the Presidential nominee. They will be destroyed and bankrupt pretty soon.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Calling our 1st witness your honor, “Mr. Rather” please take the stand. s/

[Don Corleone]

‘Substantially True’

A Little Bit pregnant?

[Chewbarkah]

I haven’t read Page’s lawsuit, but from the reporting about it, it seems a complicated and expensive case to prove. AFAIK, under US law, claims of libel and slander require proof that the Defendant intended to cause the Plaintiff harm, and knew the allegations they were making or spreading to be false. Here we have a conspiracy where the DNC paid lawyers to pay Fusion GPS to pay Steele to at least pretend to have been told various injurious things, promulgate them in the media, and involve the FBI/DoJ so it could be reported that those agencies were looking into it.

The person they intended to harm was Donald Trump. Page was just an instrument. The only ways for Page to prove a case is for one or more of the conspirators to talk, or for documents to be discovered that show the malign intent. If the Judge allows discovery and depositions, there is a tiny chance of finding something interesting. But lawyers planned this operation with layers after layer of dodges to protect themselves, likely made few written memorials about any of it, and have destroyed anything incriminating already.

The most useful things would be finding out who actually wrote the Steele Dossier, and when; who the “sources” were; who else created “dossiers” (Blumenthal?), etc.