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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awol; bowebergdahl; jihadist; obamagotbergdahl; obamalegacy; obamascandals; traitor; treason; trump2016
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To: maggief

I hope this was all worth the bomb Iran is building....


21 posted on 08/20/2015 4:25:44 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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To: South40

If I were Bowe and his Lawyer I would keep my mouth shut and my head down.


22 posted on 08/20/2015 4:26:29 PM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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To: maggief

Sue him, stupid. He’d probably like it.


23 posted on 08/20/2015 4:27:13 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: maggief

the lawyer is aiding and abetting treason for money


24 posted on 08/20/2015 4:29:39 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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To: chris37; All

The whole “negotiation” with Iran was a knowing, deliberately traitorous charade, just like the Bergdahl “prisoner exchange”, that was designed to cover for a pre-determined act of deliberate treason, an act carefully designed to create a mortal threat to the United States and Israel. Israel, however, is only Obola’s secondary target; the United States is that utterly evil IslamoMarxist’s primary target.


25 posted on 08/20/2015 4:29:41 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: maggief

So this lawyer is saying that Bergdahl will be tried? Someday?


26 posted on 08/20/2015 4:29:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: The Final Harvest
You can’t sue someone for speaking the truth about a person .. even if that person doesn’t like what’s being said.

You also can't sue someone for stating their opinion about a person. So, if someone states their true opinion, you're doubly screwed. If Bergdahl's lawyer even tried to bring this suit, he'd be hit with a motion for sanctions.

27 posted on 08/20/2015 4:29:42 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: maggief

BRING IT, you dirty rotten lawyer!! LOL


28 posted on 08/20/2015 4:30:56 PM PDT by mkjessup (Iran has an ayatollah for it's 'supreme leader', America has an ASSAHOLLAH !!!)
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To: maggief

So, sue him, Mr. Fidell.

The Donald has a whole legal department on standby.


29 posted on 08/20/2015 4:31:17 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: maggief

One hell of a CV. Who, perchance, could be paying his huge bills, certainly not the Bergdahls.


30 posted on 08/20/2015 4:31:22 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: maggief

Yes, faster please.

I’d love for them to bring out the documentation and witnesses necessary to “prove” Trump wrong. Somehow I don’t think it would end up like Bergdahl wants it to.

He’d probably go all Bradley/Chelsea Manning and start wearing dresses and wigs and calling himself Becky Bergdahl to try and get himself into women’s prison.


31 posted on 08/20/2015 4:31:25 PM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: Frank_2001
The dirty rotten traitor is a public figure at this point, therefore no case for defamation.

Thanks to that dirty rotten traitor in the White House who made him famous.

32 posted on 08/20/2015 4:31:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: TigersEye

Amen.


33 posted on 08/20/2015 4:33:41 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: TigersEye

Mommy Bergdahl.....I’d hit it.


34 posted on 08/20/2015 4:35:09 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: maggief

Translation: The discovery would be devastating -- to my client.
35 posted on 08/20/2015 4:35:32 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: maggief

And Bowe should be shot for treason. What’s you’re point?


36 posted on 08/20/2015 4:38:59 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: maggief

This lawyer I bet is representing that deserter pro-bono and is looking to make some money off him.


37 posted on 08/20/2015 4:39:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: maggief

Doesn’t that fall under opinion?


38 posted on 08/20/2015 4:40:22 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

The same Bergdahl found at the MJ Grow site?


39 posted on 08/20/2015 4:40:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: HarleyLady27

Let’s see, who am I going to believe, Sissy Bergdahl or 15 brave warriors from his platoon, some of whom lost their lives looking for his sorry a$$


40 posted on 08/20/2015 4:41:16 PM PDT by ImNotLying
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