Trump’s Lawyer Threatens To Drain Daily Beast Reporter’s Bank Account

The Daily Caller ^ | 7-28-15 | Betsy Rothstein

[sheikdetailfeather]

Lawyers for presidential frontrunner Donald Trump are taking a page out of The Soprano‘s playbook with The Daily Beast for resurrecting nasty details involving an alleged rape that emerged during he and Ivana Trump‘s early 90s divorce case.

The story by Tim Mak has relevance since Trump recently accused Mexicans of sending their worst people — you know, rapists — over the border.

“I mean somebody’s doing it!… Who’s doing the raping?”

Hey, Trump asked.

[McGruff]

With all the lawsuits Trump may be the first candidate ever to gain income during a presidential campaign. Go for the throat.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That is why organizations like the ACLU exist and they would salivate for the honor to stand behind the Beast.

Wrong battle, Trump. Spectacularly wrong battle.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The fact that the idea inspires so many people testifies to how low they have sunk.

[McGruff]

About the author.

Born and raised in Akron, Ohio, Betsy has been covering and torturing Washington media for the past three years. Early on she studied journalism in England, interviewing punk rockers in Piccadilly Square who stole her notebook and ripped it up. After graduating from Union College with a B.A. in Spanish, she began her journalism career in Cambridge, Mass., working for a Cuban newspaper where she conducted man-on-the-street interviews. She asked Latinos about their love lives. “Do Latinos make better lovers or what?” She soon moved out west to Denver, where she worked for two rival Hispanic weeklies for one year each. Next stop: J-school at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, where she earned a master’s degree. In the years following grad school she worked at the Boca Raton News as a business reporter followed by a brief stint as a press secretary for former Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.). She spent the next decade on Capitol Hill covering hard news, features and gossip for The Hill Newspaper. In 2009 she quit and moved to Portland, Ore. and wrote about the many long-haired men there who distinctly resemble Jesus. They weren’t all kind (one was fat and confrontational) but she got her story. Prior to joining TheDC, Betsy was the editor of FishbowlDC, a Washington media gossip blog.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

There doesn’t have to be. They can put it in the courts for years and dry out the DB’s bank accounts anyway. $100,000 for Trump is nothing, but no journalist can withstand that in lawyer’s fees. Trump can win by losing.

1) The Daily Beast is owned by IAC Interactive Media, a publicly-traded company with over $3 billion in annual revenue. They can handle defending a straighforward lawsuit. Not to mention that they likely have insurance coverage for any potential losses in such a lawsuit (most media companies do).

2) This would not be a particularly expensive lawsuit. Trump would likely lose a motion to dismiss, and even with the resulting appeals, it's a relatively small case for a company like IAC.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

You only gain income in a lawsuit if you win. Which, well, Trump won’t....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Worse would be the political blowback on Trump.

I hate to see it happen, because it feeds the (also false) implication that only blowhard puffy bullies would dare take up a conservative theme. Misrepresenters will now be pointing at Cruz.

The only reliable support of conservative ideas is to present them with class. To carry them out as another flavor of, er, “liberal” is to make them superficial and sacrifice their power.

[VRWCarea51]

I can't, but I still think Janet Reno is Chelsea's father.

Oh man, that's disappointing. I had my money on Donna Shalala.

[Rebelbase]

[timestax]

[ichabod1]

Somebody just brought a gun to the knife fight. Obama should love this outcome. He owns it himself and highly recommended it. Remember?

Two Words: Rahm Emmanuel

[sunrise_sunset]

Trump has unlimited pocketbooks if he so chooses. The journalists don’t. DB can defend them or not, but they won’t work for DB forever.They will have someone watching them forever.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

The journalists have DB’s pocketbooks, which (through their parent company, and their parent company’s insurer) are just as unlimited as Trump’s. And, again, this would not be a particularly challenging or costly case to defend.

[NorthMountain]

The challenge was to prove me wrong ...

;'}

[Fuzz]

“When you got money there’s lots’a things you can do with it. Including silencing critics by burying them in legal fees.”

This is considered a good thing?

[Rebelbase]

Not gonna take that bet!

[Jim from C-Town]

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

[montag813]

I want Michael Cohen as my attorney

[mosesdapoet]

s/

[JAKraig]

Hildebeeste had a romp with Webb Hubbell. . . .

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I don't doubt that Web and Hidbeast were a thing, not for a moment, Chelsa looks just like Web. That doesn't mean she's not AC/DC.