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Mike Lindell Loses Major Defamation Case Against The Daily Mail
Populist Press ^ | 12/11/2021

Posted on 12/11/2021 9:59:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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The media has been on a non-stop attack against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell since he expressed doubts about the results of the 2020 presidential election and Mike took action against one outlet.

But Lindell was defeated in his court case against the British tabloid The Daily Mail who he accused of defaming him, Newsweek reported.

A federal judge sided with the news outlet, saying that the article that Lindell cited as defaming “cannot be reasonably construed as defamatory.”

Lindell, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, first sued the Daily Mail tabloid in January after it published an article alleging that he and 30 Rock actress Jane Krakowski had a secret romance. The report was based on a tip from an “anonymous friend” and Lindell and Krakowski quickly denied the claim. Lindell even said he’d never heard of the actress.

While the report may have been inaccurate, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Crotty, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, ruled on Friday that nothing in the article rose to the level of defamatory.

“Dating an actress—secret or not—would not cause ‘public hatred,’ ‘shame,’ ‘ridicule,’ or any similar feeling towards Lindell,” The judge said. He argued that the lawsuit “has not identified any statements in the Article that a reasonable person would view as defamatory.”

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1 posted on 12/11/2021 9:59:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
I think the real reason Lindell lost the case is that Krakowski is fairly attractive. It's not defamatory to be linked to somebody pretty and/or sexy.

Now on the other hand if the DM had linked him with Stacy Abrams, the ruling would certainly have gone in his favor.

2 posted on 12/11/2021 10:22:06 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: SeekAndFind

“Dating an actress—secret or not—would not cause ‘public hatred,’ ‘shame,’ ‘ridicule,’ or any similar feeling towards Lindell”

O’RLY?!

Has the judge not seen the #MeToo environment running around here in the US?


3 posted on 12/11/2021 10:45:33 PM PST by Skywise
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To: SeekAndFind

bookmark


4 posted on 12/12/2021 12:12:29 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: dayglored

Is this kind of like the case where a sexually predatory but hot female teacher can molest a minor boy student and get a thumbs up?


5 posted on 12/12/2021 4:50:03 AM PST by fwdude
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To: SeekAndFind

Meanwhile, Meghan Markle gets to lie to the court with impunity.


6 posted on 12/12/2021 4:50:51 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: SeekAndFind
“Dating an actress—secret or not—would not cause ‘public hatred,’ ‘shame,’ ‘ridicule,’ or any similar feeling towards Lindell,” The judge said

The judge is wrong.

Dating some feckless, moronic left-wing actress would INDEED bring public shame and ridicule.

7 posted on 12/12/2021 4:54:05 AM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: dayglored

“I think the real reason Lindell lost the case is that Krakowski is fairly attractive.”

I think the REAL REASON is that Lindell is defending Trump on The Steal.


8 posted on 12/12/2021 6:49:41 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: SeekAndFind

While the report may have been inaccurate.

The ones the judge doesn’t like?.

Judge Roy Bean winks


9 posted on 12/12/2021 9:37:53 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: BobL; fwdude
> I think the REAL REASON is that Lindell is defending Trump on The Steal.

Well, of course. My comment was not meant seriously; I was making a joke.

10 posted on 12/12/2021 2:00:55 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: SeekAndFind

DailyMail is a great source for photos. But its reporting is oh, so trashy. Awful inaccuracies, speculation and plain gossip, terrible grammar and even poor spelling—in an English newspaper! The fact that DM allows comments to most of its articles is curiouslyn informative and often amusing; but just as often the comments are distorted by organized propaganda attacks, not only by political operatives from English-speaking nations or Europe, but also stealth attacks originating in Russia or China.


11 posted on 12/12/2021 6:10:05 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. --Frederick Douglass)
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