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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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1 posted on 08/20/2015 4:10:25 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

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


2 posted on 08/20/2015 4:12:15 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God)
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To: maggief
I believe the men in his unit also called him a traitor......along with a million of us ordinary folks.

The attorney...just looking for his 15 minutes.

3 posted on 08/20/2015 4:12:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: maggief

Please sue. Trump’s poll numbers will skyrocket.


4 posted on 08/20/2015 4:12:49 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: maggief

I’m sure they can locate 12 clueless stooges to give him a “fair” trial. We got plenty of “crazy” in this country.


5 posted on 08/20/2015 4:13:10 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: maggief

http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/EFidell.htm

Senior Research Scholar in Law and Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law

Eugene R. Fidell is the Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He is a co-founder and former president of the National Institute of Military Justice and of counsel at Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, Washington, D.C. He is a Life Member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Defense Legal Policy Board of the Department of Defense and the board of directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. He has also taught at Harvard Law School and the American University Washington College of Law.

Education
B.A. (Philosophy), Queens College, 1965
LL.B., Harvard, 1968

Courses Taught
Admiralty Law
American Indian Tribal Law
Disasters
Guantanamo
Military Justice
Federal Indian Law
Law of the Sea
The Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court


6 posted on 08/20/2015 4:13:30 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646787/He-face-court-martial-desertion-Two-former-Bowe-Bergdahl-platoon-mates-say-thousands-danger-abandoned-Army-post.html


7 posted on 08/20/2015 4:14:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: maggief

Tell that to the families of the soldiers killed looking your POS client off on his nature walk, Yuwee.


8 posted on 08/20/2015 4:14:29 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: maggief
It's sad that this traitor continues to use his title of Sgt.

Traitor Bowe Bergdahl seems far more appropriate.

9 posted on 08/20/2015 4:14:45 PM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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"Nor, as a practical matter, is he [Bergdahl] in a position, for the moment, to bring the defamation lawsuit Mr. Trump richly deserves,"

Meaningless bluster. A lawyer who actually believed that Trump deserves a defamation lawsuit would have actually threatened to file said lawsuit, even if the criminal proceedings mean he couldn't do so now.

10 posted on 08/20/2015 4:15:58 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: maggief

Bring it!


11 posted on 08/20/2015 4:16:25 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: maggief

Perhaps the familes of the injured or dead soldiers who were forced to go out and seach for the scum traitor Bowe Bergdahl should sue Bowe Bergdahl.


12 posted on 08/20/2015 4:17:15 PM PDT by dforest
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To: P-Marlowe

The dirty rotten traitor is a public figure at this point, therefore no case for defamation. Anyone who would take his case is a scumbag himself, FWIW.


13 posted on 08/20/2015 4:17:16 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: maggief

Good luck finding a jury pool on that one. LOL!


14 posted on 08/20/2015 4:17:40 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Bergdahl is a dirty, rotten traitor just like the president who traded dangerous terrorists for his worthless, stinking hide.

*spits*


15 posted on 08/20/2015 4:17:45 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: maggief

Defense for defamation is truth.


16 posted on 08/20/2015 4:20:34 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Georgia Girl 2

After the trial and “not guilty” verdict, they’ll all be surrounding Trump for his autograph.


17 posted on 08/20/2015 4:20:49 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: maggief
and your boy should be shot at dawn!!!
18 posted on 08/20/2015 4:23:17 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: maggief

Don’t worry, Fiddel’s poll number will tank, Trump’s will go up. Happens to every person who attacks Trump.


19 posted on 08/20/2015 4:24:29 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only one who can run a campaign without rich donors.)
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To: chris37

You can’t sue someone for speaking the truth about a person .. even if that person doesn’t like what’s being said.


20 posted on 08/20/2015 4:24:34 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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