Posted on 10/31/2017 8:18:30 AM PDT by Signalman
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson said Monday that he received a cease and desist letter from Tony Podesta’s lawyer over his reporting on the Podesta Group.
Not only does the threatening letter demand Carlson stop discussing reports about the group but that they also retract and delete all previous reporting as well. This, Carlson said, was an effort to “use fear to control press coverage.”
“Podesta isn’t just complaining about us, he’s threatening us,” Carlson said on his show Monday.
The letter, he continued, “demands that the show ‘immediately cease and desist disseminating false and misleading reports about Mr. Podesta and the Podesta group.’ It demands we retract and delete all our prior reporting on the Podesta group and warns that if we don’t do this, ‘Mr. Podesta may pursue legal action, including for damages in order to fully protect his rights.”
The lawyer also said Carlson could not quote from the letter publicly, citing the copyright act, which Carlson clearly did not listen to.
But the Fox News host found the most “amusing” line of the letter to be the lawyer’s claim that “Paul Manafort did not work with the Podesta Group in its representation of the European center for a modern Ukraine.”
Tucker said it was obvious the lawyer had not read the Manafort indictment, which clearly stated otherwise.
“Maybe we’re being too literal about this,” Carlson said. “Podesta’s lawyer wasn’t trying to inform us of anything — but to threaten us, to shut down our reporting on his client. One lawyer we talked to earlier today said the Podesta people have used this tactic with others before, it’s common. It’s an effort to use fear to control press coverage. We’re not intimidated, we have ample evidence from Mueller’s indictment and from a number of confidential sources to paint a pretty clear picture of exactly what the Podesta Group was doing for years here in Washington. We’ll let the facts speak for themselves, and we’re confident the Mueller investigation will be revealing a lot more about his lobbying practices in the near future.”
Amazing how quickly he got a copyright on that letter.
Now that's funny!
Part of the letter....where is the rest of the letter.
Letter dated 30-Oct-2017 from Geoffrey Garinther at Venable LLP
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/79t3my/letter_by_tony_podestas_attorney_threatening/
Works for me. We don't want fake news, either. So, Tucker, keep disseminating true and accurate reports, and keep putting the pieces together.
Leave the false and misleading stuff to CNN and the other alphabet and acronym sources who are so good at it...
Scan of part of the letter at https://www.newsmax.com/politics/tony-podesta-attorney-letter-tucker-carlson/2017/10/31/id/823134/
THIS is the most important story of the day. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and the Podestas are trying to hide their smoke, and willing to threaten Carlson to do so.
Yes...that’s Page One....where are the rest of the pages?
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/925171017693134850/photo/1
Scan of part of the letter at https://www.newsmax.com/politics/tony-podesta-attorney-letter-tucker-carlson/2017/10/31/id/823134/
Is there a trademark on the delivery of Arkanicide?
Above the law logic just got flushed democrats grip rail....
QUESTION:
Assuming that Manafort was working as a subcontractor for the Podesta Group, which entity is responsible for making the foreign agent and banking disclosures?
My knee-jerk response is the burden falls on the prime contractor, there was no collusion or hanky-panky between the prime contractor and the subcontractor.
Was there an engagement contract between Manafort and Podesta?
Is there a handwritten copy of the instructions in the black ledger in Kiev?
ANY THOUGHTS?
QUESTION:
Assuming that Manafort was working as a subcontractor for the Podesta Group, which entity is responsible for making the foreign agent and banking disclosures?
My knee-jerk response is the burden falls on the prime contractor, there was no collusion or hanky-panky between the prime contractor and the subcontractor.
Was there an engagement contract between Manafort and Podesta?
Is there a handwritten copy of the instructions in the black ledger in Kiev?
ANY THOUGHTS?
I wonder if TP’s lawyer thinks this is a way to get Tucker fired and ultimately, Hannity?
Bring it! Let’s go to document discovery and depositions!
I thought that Forbes and other legit sources had reported that The Podesta Group was actively lobbying for Russian banking interests during the 2016 election cycle, and that one of the goals was to have the Obama-era sanctions lifted. I’m not saying this was illegal, but any sort of contact or business relationship between Trump or the Trump campaign and Russia is always portrayed as automatically a sign of “treason.”
Hope Tucker says we will stop just as soon as john boy answers this question. Where were you on the night of Seth Rich’s murder?
This is an incredibly stupid letter, and I speak as an attorney who understands fair use issues and defamation.
All about wagging the dog distractions right now ...... STAY ON THE URANIUM 1 STORY !
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