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Trump’s Lawyer Threatens To Drain Daily Beast Reporter’s Bank Account
The Daily Caller ^ | 7-28-15 | Betsy Rothstein

Posted on 07/28/2015 8:57:07 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

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To: sheikdetailfeather

Ah, yes. This is what needs to happen.
Consequences.


21 posted on 07/28/2015 9:38:04 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Bob434

baked => backed


22 posted on 07/28/2015 9:38:11 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Time to slay The Daily Beast!!


23 posted on 07/28/2015 9:39:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MrB

As Proverbs says, however, the end of a thing is better than the beginning.

I like Trump’s protests. However, in the end he can’t make such a threat stick.


24 posted on 07/28/2015 9:39:33 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
It is long past time we should have started applying massive and personal consequences to these douchebags who carry the Democrat Party water.

By the way, each one of us can practice this fact at the local level.

We each live in a town or county serviced by one or two local radio stations, one or two local television stations, and one or two local newspapers. Each of these media outlets carries the AP or Reuters or CBS or NBC or ABC wire service. Each of these has chief news editor. This news editor lives in your town, just down the street from you. He has children going to school with your children. He attends the same local arts events. He eats at the same restaurants. He has a telephone. You can call him. You can call him with the itemized factual evidence of his 1) journalistic incompetence or 2) intellectual political fraud every single day. All you have to do is spend a bit of time with pretty much any national or international news story, documenting the ommissions (mostly), falsehoods, misplacement of newsworthy details, faulty analysis, etc., and confront him with it. You can do this every day.

We could have little teams in every little town of America doing this. Our editors would get a phone call every day.

Mocking. Ridicule. Sarcasm. Embarassment. But mostly providing fact-by-fact-by-fact evidence of the man's personal dishonest. To his face. To his name. To his house. To his family. To his community.

These media people really are scumbags and we should start treating them as such.

25 posted on 07/28/2015 9:40:00 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Sacajaweau

Rush Limbaugh has been discussing this for the last few minutes.


26 posted on 07/28/2015 9:40:25 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Go for it


27 posted on 07/28/2015 9:41:35 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: mbarker12474

Scumbags would not gain an inch if it were not for people who buy scum.

And that’s the problem trying to beat scumbags using scum before a scum loving audience. At best the results are fickle.


28 posted on 07/28/2015 9:41:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

If Trump sued the Daily Beast and the reporter for this article, the lawsuit would not survive a motion to dismiss.


29 posted on 07/28/2015 9:44:00 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: sheikdetailfeather
This is exactly the tactic that the government and the Left uses to quell Conservatives and those who oppose their desires. The Process is the Punishment! The Left uses the threat of law suites, actual suites(most are specious), legal action, threats and intimidation all the time. It is about Damn TIME someone fights back. Sue the snot out of Daily Beast into bankruptcy!
30 posted on 07/28/2015 9:46:03 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

sure he can. papers lose all the time in these suits.


31 posted on 07/28/2015 9:46:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Trump’s going to have to get serious that there is something beyond the juice and the “cracker” if he wants to really gain ground. Otherwise he will have simply served as a spectacular piece of bait on behalf of the devil to lower, rather than raise, the level of society.


32 posted on 07/28/2015 9:46:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Document it: settlement is not losing. But an attempt to do something on the scale of what Trump threatens WILL be met with the ACLU.


33 posted on 07/28/2015 9:47:11 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Trump needs to muzzle his lawyer

He has called on other candidates to muzzle their staffers


34 posted on 07/28/2015 9:47:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Jim from C-Town

To be the devil because God uses the devil to bring the evil low... still earns the devil’s reward. Sorry, Satan gets no get out of hell free pass here.


35 posted on 07/28/2015 9:48:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Sacajaweau
sure he can. papers lose all the time in these suits.

Papers they win all the time in these suits, too. And, more relevant here, when writing about litigious people (or potentially litigious people), like Trump, they tend to write their articles in such a way as to be lawsuit-proof.

Any litigation based on the Daily Beast article would fail. There is no cause of action for slander, or anything else, in that article.

36 posted on 07/28/2015 9:50:15 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Also, the threshold of proof to make slander accusations stick is higher with public figures than with John Q. Private Citizen.

Donald makes himself public like this... he should expect this sort of thing, and to show that it cannot bait him (”this is all unfounded allegation and I’m simply not talking about it any more”) is to reflect a greater strength.


37 posted on 07/28/2015 9:53:44 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Trump needs to stop acting like a schoolyard bully and start acting like a statesman. This constant tit for tat with the press and other Republicans is getting tiresome and starting to resemble a bad soap opera.

His constant flame throwing is distracting attention from serious discussion of important issues.

I recall when Bill Clinton would insert himself into every angle of every story that was reported. What a self absorbed bore he was.

Trump is doing the same and it’s getting every bit as boring.


38 posted on 07/28/2015 10:00:37 AM PDT by randita (...Our First Lady is a congenital liar - William Safire, 1996)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

And there would be a lot of classy ways to refute such trash. The “power” in the Beast article is not even in what it alleges Trump may have done, but in the false moral equivalencing behind it. Suppose he forced himself on his unwilling but legal wife... oh, we wish this is the worst that illegales did, “rape” wise!

Someone like Cruz could make moral mincemeat of the Beast. For Trump to rage, inadvertently reinforces the moral equivalencing.


39 posted on 07/28/2015 10:01:00 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 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.


40 posted on 07/28/2015 10:01:31 AM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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