Posted on 07/27/2022 1:27:11 PM PDT by Signalman
“I have notified CNN of my intent to file a lawsuit over their repeated defamatory statements against me,” Trump said in a statement received by PJ Media. “I will also be commencing actions against other media outlets who have defamed me and defrauded the public regarding the overwhelming evidence of fraud throughout the 2020 Election. I will never stop fighting for the truth and for the future of our Country!”
Trump has long maintained that, if not for widespread election fraud, he would have won the 2020 election, and the mainstream media (which also pushed the false claims that Trump was a Russian asset who stole the 2016 election) quickly dubbed Trump’s claims as false and insisted that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Last September, a forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election vote in Maricopa County, Ariz., found 53,214 ballots impacted by irregularities of medium, high, and critical severity. Joe Biden’s state-certified margin of victory was only 10,457.
Last March, a judge ruled that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson violated state law in 2020 by unilaterally changing absentee ballot rules. “The presumption is found nowhere in state law,” State Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray wrote in his ruling. “The mandatory presumption goes beyond the realm of mere advice and direction, and instead is a substantive directive that adds to the pertinent signature-matching standards.” The illegal changes produced a record number of absentee votes, estimated to be 5.5 million, in a state Biden won by a mere 154,188 votes.
n Georgia, where Joe Biden’s state-certified margin of victory was only 11,779, there’s evidence that there were potentially 35,000 illegal votes and thousands more violated chain-of-custody laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
As a public figure I am not sure he has much protection
Gotta love Trump. He’s the only fighter in the GOP.
Meanwhile the GOP Senate just rolled over and passed the chip bill.
Wow - I sure hope CNN and the other fake news outlets don’t turn on Trump and go after him over this 😒
How else is Nancy supposed to get her stock trading insider payout
Smart.
The issue of the truthfulness of the alleged defamation should be part of the case.
The whole 2020 Election fraud could be argued in Court over this.
Nvidia up 7.6% what a surprise
What’s that? Don’t tell me: MORE spending!
I respect the opinions of those here who want to keep fighting over the past - but I think it’s an ego-driven mistake.
$280 BILLION
Kind of surprised he’s just now getting around to this...
Heard the standard for defamation is a lot higher for public figures...but I guess its still a thing. Would like to hear from a good lawyer whose take a look at the specifics.
Trump would have to prove deliberate, knowing, reckless disregard for the truth, or conscious, malicious, unequivocal lying. If the justice system was honest, that would be trivially easy in this case. But given what our “justice” system has become ....
Ya’ think you and I can get on the jury?
knowledge of the past is the key to the future!
If President Trump can root out and expose the EVIL DOERS who cheated ALL of us (not just President Trump) out of the prosperity and happiness that SURELY would be ours today, we will become a better nation and a better people!
Four years of President Trump payback works for me!
Heck, I’ll even lie to get on the jury. “yeah, I hate Trump and all those rightwingers” complete with spit during jury selection .
Insanity! Is this the bill Pelosi and her husband were blatantly trading on weeks before? I can imagine they made quite a bundle now. And she is the one investigating the F out of Trump.
If he ever takes the WH again, he should make it his religion to utterly destroy that bitch once and for all. All the hell she has put him thru the past 6 years with the fake investigations, impeachments, she is a cancer that needs to be destroyed
Massive fraud? Yes
Decisive fraud? Doubtful
Higher Burdens for Defamation: Public Officials and Figures
Our government places a high priority on the public being allowed to speak their minds about elected officials and other public figures. People in the public eye get less protection from defamatory statements and face a higher burden when attempting to win a defamation lawsuit.
The Supreme Court ruled that freedom of speech limits a public official’s ability to sue someone for defamation. When someone criticizes an official in a false and damaging way for something relating to their behavior in office, the official must prove the statement was made with “actual malice” and all the other defamation elements.
The U.S. Supreme Court defined “actual malice” in Hustler v. Falwell (1988). In that case, the Court held that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution protected certain statements that would otherwise be defamatory.
This meant that public officials could only win a defamation suit when the statement was published with the actual intent to harm the public figure. Actual malice only occurs when the person making the statement knows it is not true or has a reckless disregard for whether it is true.
Other people in the public eye, such as celebrities, must also prove actual malice to succeed in a defamation claim.
https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/defamation-law-the-basics.html
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