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To: LS

“You cannot allow any lies to stand.”

Except there can’t be any lies, because there haven’t even been any ads yet. Trump is just playing the lawyer card preemptively to try and bully other candidates so they won’t go after him.


50 posted on 11/20/2015 7:48:39 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Trump is just playing the lawyer card preemptively to try and bully other candidates so they won’t go after him.

Not true.

He's warning others not to go after him with lies.

55 posted on 11/20/2015 7:51:25 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Boogieman

I think for a public figure, the standard for libel is much higher and there must be an element of ‘actual malice’. Perhaps some freeper lawyers can help here.

However, tortuous interference against Trump’s business would be much easier to win a case on , I think.

Kaisch better be careful.

What do y’all think?


93 posted on 11/20/2015 8:15:51 AM PST by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Boogieman

Pretty brilliant, huh? I hear sore losers.


152 posted on 11/20/2015 9:18:12 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Boogieman
Trump is just playing the lawyer card preemptively to try and bully other candidates so they won't go after him.

So they won't tell lies about him, you mean -- how is that "bullying"? Do we want a commander-in-chief who waits to be attacked before warning other nations what will happen if they attack? Warning against libel does not stifle any reasonable competition. The other candidates have to make their case affirmatively, as Cruz is doing.

The Republicans are waging a civil war within the Party when they should at this point appear united in principle, with different ways to achieve that, to the electorate. What is the purpose of a Republican opposition party if they act just like the Democrat Marxist socialists in power?

185 posted on 11/20/2015 11:16:58 AM PST by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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