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Bowe Bergdahl Lawyer: Donald Trump Should Be Sued for Defamation
NBC News ^ | August 20, 2015 | DANIELLA SILVA

Posted on 08/20/2015 4:10:25 PM PDT by maggief

An attorney for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said Thursday recent comments made by Donald Trump threaten his client's right to a fair trial, after the presidential candidate called Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor."

At a town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Trump referred to Bergdahl as a "dirty, rotten traitor" and appeared to pantomime his execution while criticizing the soldier's release as part of a prisoner exchange with the Taliban.

Attorney Eugene R. Fidell said in a statement that his client was unable to speak out in his own defense because he is facing a preliminary hearing in the military justice system.

"Nor, as a practical matter, is he [Bergdahl] in a position, for the moment, to bring the defamation lawsuit Mr. Trump richly deserves," Fidell said in the statement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awol; bowebergdahl; jihadist; obamagotbergdahl; obamalegacy; obamascandals; traitor; treason; trump2016
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To: libstripper
Excellent question, for which we will no doubt never get an answer
41 posted on 08/20/2015 4:41:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: maggief

Anyone who knows the facts knows he’s a “dirty, rotten traitor”.


42 posted on 08/20/2015 4:41:46 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: maggief

So he wants to add “money grubbing thief-by-lawsuit-bum” to the list?


43 posted on 08/20/2015 4:42:08 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: maggief

Well...hew is a dirty rotten traitor who should have been hung by the neck. Several other soldiers died trying to get this traitor back. Sick.


44 posted on 08/20/2015 4:42:17 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: maggief; flaglady47; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner
Bowe B. will never be charged with prison as long as Obama is throwing his body on top of the traitor at every turn to protect him.

And even if he is charged and convicted of treason.....and handed a blindfold and cigarette, Obama would issue a pardon at the last minute.

He could even issue him a pardon today, if he had the guts.

Leni

46 posted on 08/20/2015 4:49:23 PM PDT by MinuteGal (It's NOT "Immigration", stupid!....IT'S INVASION!)
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To: ImNotLying

I’m with you on the Brave Warriors....

...but remember, obuma traded Bergdahl for this Iran mess...

...course I don’t think it has registered with the left just what a POS obuma really is...


47 posted on 08/20/2015 4:54:38 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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To: maggief
From my understanding of libel law, in order to sue Donald Trump for calling him a "dirty, rotten traitor", Bergdahl would first need to prove that he is not a "dirty, rotten traitor". (Which would be very difficult for him to do.)
48 posted on 08/20/2015 5:03:10 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: maggief

I don’t see a problem here. The truth is always an affirmative defense in these sorts of defamation cases.


49 posted on 08/20/2015 5:11:47 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: maggief

Since when can dirty, rotten traitors afford attorneys?

And besides. All it takes is for one Federal Judge to say that Trump can!


50 posted on 08/20/2015 5:15:35 PM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: maggief

Then bergy should be brought up for treason and hanged along with his lawyer. 4 good souls gave thier lives for this piece of human trash


51 posted on 08/20/2015 5:16:08 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: maggief

That lawyer is a traitor.


52 posted on 08/20/2015 5:26:56 PM PDT by GregB (Good luck Rose and Jim!!)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
"Nor, as a practical matter, is he [Bergdahl] in a position, for the moment, to bring the defamation lawsuit Mr. Trump richly deserves,"

But, just as soon as Obama grants him a pardon you can bet he'll file. It's only a matter of time.

53 posted on 08/20/2015 5:30:03 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: maggief

Go ahead and try, you clown. Trump will take you to the cleaners. Talk is cheap.


54 posted on 08/20/2015 5:31:45 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: P-Marlowe

“I don’t think Mr. Trump has anything to fear from the dirty rotten traitor.”

And even if the dirty rotten traitor did sue, it would be immediately tossed out of court, for several reasons.


55 posted on 08/20/2015 5:31:59 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: outofsalt
But, just as soon as Obama grants him a pardon you can bet he'll file. It's only a matter of time.

I hope he does file, and gets the judicial slapdown he deserves. (though obviously hope he's not pardoned...)

56 posted on 08/20/2015 5:34:18 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: maggief

Well do it Bergdahl lawyer. Trump likely welcomes it.


57 posted on 08/20/2015 5:34:35 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: maggief; All
""Nor, as a practical matter,
is he [Bergdahl] in a position, for the moment,
to bring the defamation lawsuit Mr. Trump richly deserves,"
Fidell said in the statement...."


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58 posted on 08/20/2015 5:42:37 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: maggief

Fair trial? Will that improve his ability to outrun an executioner’s bullet or a hangman’s noose. Bergdalh should be enjoying his last days, negotiating method of execution for being a traitor.


59 posted on 08/20/2015 5:44:52 PM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Men died looking for the traitorous scumbag. In WW2 the penalty for desertion was death by firing squad but usually they ended up serving life. Eddie Slovik was shot. In the Civil War they didn’t beat around the bush with deserters. Over 500 soldiers were shot or hanged.


60 posted on 08/20/2015 5:46:43 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', an 8th grade education,Ain't no need y'all treatin' me this way")
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