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BREAKING: Trump to Sue CNN, Other Media Outlets for Defamation
PJ Media ^ | 7/27/2022 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 07/27/2022 1:27:11 PM PDT by Signalman

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1 posted on 07/27/2022 1:27:11 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

As a public figure I am not sure he has much protection


2 posted on 07/27/2022 1:29:15 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Signalman

Gotta love Trump. He’s the only fighter in the GOP.


3 posted on 07/27/2022 1:29:46 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Signalman

Meanwhile the GOP Senate just rolled over and passed the chip bill.


4 posted on 07/27/2022 1:30:45 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Signalman

Wow - I sure hope CNN and the other fake news outlets don’t turn on Trump and go after him over this 😒


5 posted on 07/27/2022 1:31:07 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: 1Old Pro

How else is Nancy supposed to get her stock trading insider payout


6 posted on 07/27/2022 1:32:25 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Signalman

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.


7 posted on 07/27/2022 1:33:57 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: 1Old Pro

Nvidia up 7.6% what a surprise


8 posted on 07/27/2022 1:34:24 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: 1Old Pro

What’s that? Don’t tell me: MORE spending!


9 posted on 07/27/2022 1:35:08 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Signalman

I respect the opinions of those here who want to keep fighting over the past - but I think it’s an ego-driven mistake.


10 posted on 07/27/2022 1:35:34 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

$280 BILLION


11 posted on 07/27/2022 1:37:03 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Signalman

Kind of surprised he’s just now getting around to this...


12 posted on 07/27/2022 1:37:12 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Signalman

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.


13 posted on 07/27/2022 1:37:52 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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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?


14 posted on 07/27/2022 1:38:34 PM PDT by sphinx
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I respect the opinions of those here who want to keep fighting over the past - but I think it’s an ego-driven mistake.

Bullshit.

Problems are never solved by keeping your mouth shut and your head down.
15 posted on 07/27/2022 1:40:44 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Jim Noble

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!


16 posted on 07/27/2022 1:41:00 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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Heck, I’ll even lie to get on the jury. “yeah, I hate Trump and all those rightwingers” complete with spit during jury selection .


17 posted on 07/27/2022 1:42:14 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: 1Old Pro

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


18 posted on 07/27/2022 1:45:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Signalman

Massive fraud? Yes
Decisive fraud? Doubtful


19 posted on 07/27/2022 1:46:08 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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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


20 posted on 07/27/2022 1:47:19 PM PDT by FarCenter
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