Posted on 02/12/2025 4:07:18 PM PST by CFW
A Florida Court of Appeals on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Pulitzer board to continue, ruling that the president had met his burden of proof that there was actual malice and bias against him.
The defamation lawsuit stems from a Pulitzer board decision to award a prize to The New York Times and The Washington Post for reporting about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The president also claimed he was defamed in a statement from the board, which came after Trump asked them to rescind the 2018 award. Trump filed the initial lawsuit in 2022.
The three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that Trump has met his burden of proof and established jurisdiction to proceed with the case.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Winning!
And more losing by fake news media!
“Conclusion
The President has met his burden of establishing jurisdiction to proceed with his asserted claims that the non-resident defendants acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth by knowingly conspiring with the Florida resident defendant to defame the President by publishing the statement with “[t]he ultimate purpose of . . . resurrect[ing] the debunked Russia Collusion Hoax[,]” when, at the time the statement was issued, “it was abundantly clear to anyone interested in the truth that the Russia Collusion Hoax was utter fiction” and “had been contrived and concocted by malicious partisans[.]”
Therefore, the trial court correctly denied the non-resident defendants’ motion to dismiss the President’s claims over the asserted publication of defamatory “FAKE NEWS.””
Link to order here:
https://4dca.flcourts.gov/content/download/2447253/opinion/Opinion_2024-1983.pdf
The legacy/alphabet media takes another one on the chin.
Good, I hope he guts them like a trout.
Buncha Putzers they are.....
Thank you for continuing to use the ‘net for da truff, as it was initially intended.
From the ruling:
The statement here was actionable as one of fact because it detailed both the procedure the Pulitzer Prize board members followed to conclude that they would not rescind the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting and the reasoning for not rescinding the awards. The statement described “[a]n actual or alleged event or circumstance[,]” with the board members vouching for the truth of facts that had been debunked after thorough investigation, thereby rendering it a statement of fact.
To the extent any part of the statement could be considered opinion in form or context, the statement was nonetheless actionable as a mixed opinion with implied facts. Furthermore, the statement constitutes defamation by implication because, as the complaint asserted, despite the fact that “[t]he awarded organizations had reported the individual components of the Russia Collusion Hoax all wrong[,]” which “were exposed as utter fiction[,]” the Pulitzer board members published a statement falsely implying that these facts were true by stating that two independent reviews conducted by individuals at their request concluded “that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prize.
In other words, the board members vouched for the truth of reporting that had been debunked by all credible sources charged with investigating the false claim that the President colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election, including Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Attorney General William Barr, the House of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the United States Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence.”
$50 million and they should call their buddies at the Nobel committee to put in a good word about that peace prize thing.
I can’t wait until this goes in front of a Florida jury - hopefully in Okeechobee County.
If I were the defendants, I’d be shaking in my boots.
“Thank you for continuing to use the ‘net for da truff, as it was initially intended.”
Why thank you! I appreciate that comment quite a bit.
“Link to order here:”
AS IT WAS INITIALLY INTENDED.
Truly, what “Democracy” was/is supposed to be about.
Hopefully my Grandkids will get to inherit a “Live Free or Die” Rebublic...
“Link to order here:”
AS IT WAS INITIALLY INTENDED.
Truly, what “Democracy” was/is supposed to be about.
Hopefully my Grandkids will get to inherit a “Live Free or Die” Republic...
[my bad...]
the leftist promotion board
lefties giving each other awards
May it continue!
Pretty soon the rich and powerful Dems will be living in old RV’s on the side of a Baltimore side street.
Gitmo would be better
DJT is going end up getting rich off all these lawsuits! ;o)
He’l be the first President of the United States to take office as a billionaire and leave office as an even bigger billionaire. Not sure how legit it would be, but I’d love to see him take care of Rudi for all the crap he had to endure from the smarmy leftists.
Cool thing is that we know where the money is coming from, unlike the wealth of all those other government employees . . .
Well, the money for judgements won’t be flowing like milk and honey from USAID. LOL Shut that pipeline down.
I also truly hope that an investigation has begun regarding what really happened that night in Georgia, from the "massive" water leak onward.
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