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Trump wants to 'open up' libel laws to sue media outlets
The Hill ^ | February 26, 2016 | Bradford Richardson

Posted on 02/26/2016 12:41:29 PM PST by ConservativeTeen

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Friday vowed to "open up" libel laws in order to sue media outlets that write "purposely negative" and "horrible" articles about him.

"I’m gonna open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible, false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money," Trump said at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.

"We’re going to open up those libels laws," he added. "So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; bigbrother; dangerous; donaldtrump; fakeconservative; libel; thingsliberalssay; trump
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To: Chgogal

High profile people are not allowed to sue the way regular folks are. A very dififcult standard. And that’s a good thing. We don’t want corrupt politicians suing us into silence.

Remember the Clinton Chronicles? Zotted legally and when a single witness failed to appear in court over only one part of the tell all video.


221 posted on 02/27/2016 7:37:51 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Dire Threat to Internet Free Speech? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts)
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To: Democrat_media

>> Only Trump and I understand what China is doing to the USA <<

Your modesty is admirable.


222 posted on 02/27/2016 7:42:40 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
And how arbitrary will the punishments be?

What, fascism bothers you? Tsk, tsk, tsk, you forget: It's a CRISIS!!! Who cares about that old Constitution anyway? We want TRUMP!!! /s

His supporters will get it eventually, good and hard.

223 posted on 02/27/2016 7:50:08 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Yessir, you got that right.

For the Trumpeters who blindly accept all his pearls of wisdom, including this threat to the 1st Amendment:

“And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?”


224 posted on 02/27/2016 8:32:07 AM PST by Avoiding_Sulla (You can't tell where we're going if you don't know where we've been before)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

He doesn’t understand the concept of limited government.


225 posted on 02/27/2016 9:05:23 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Avoiding_Sulla; TBP; Carry_Okie; Liz; RoosterRedux

Notice that many Trump supporters are more than willing to criticize him when we think he deserves it. You guys had no retorts yet. Maybe now, but not for a while.

Oh but wait. We’re all ‘brown shirts’ according to Glenn Beck.


226 posted on 02/27/2016 9:14:09 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Dire Threat to Internet Free Speech? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I haven’t seen any Trump supporters criticize ANYTHING Trump says or does. I have seen Cruz people do that with Ted.


227 posted on 02/27/2016 9:17:17 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Oh but wait. We’re all ‘brown shirts’ according to Glenn Beck.

Beck's allusion, while stretched, is not that far off in terms of mass psychology. Trump backers have simply been immune to data. The man is every bit the flaming liar and malignant narcissist as is Obama, with the added feature of driving public discourse into the gutter. He is destroying fifty years of conservatism before your eyes, just at the moment when we have the first opportunity for a conservative government since Calvin Coolidge.

Are we angry? You bet. I'm more angry at Trump's backers than Bernie's. In backing Trump, "conservatives" have embraced government control of land, communications, and medical care, an end to communications privacy and Congress' control of whether we commit our sons to go to war. At least Bernie's backers are consistent with their beliefs.

228 posted on 02/27/2016 10:14:27 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

‘Trump backers have simply been immune to data.’

I hear Rush Limbaugh repeat that old saw ad nauseum.

Did you notice who took over this thread? Trump critics. Why? Trump supporters are NOT immune to data. This is far more compelling evidence than every claim to the contrary.

Brown shirts love burning books while many Trump supporters are repulsed by such a thing.

Were we thrilled about Trump and Big Ethanol? No.

Calling us ‘brown shirts’ is either malicious slander or irrational partizanship. I strongly advise anyone against talking himself into believing it.

Such a level of partizanship that reverts to the ultimate in intellectual and seriously-phrased name calling is exactly what the Ruling Class wants.

The result will be more calcitrance, even more stubborn support. Alienation.


229 posted on 02/27/2016 10:31:13 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Dire Threat to Internet Free Speech? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts)
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To: TBP; Liz

‘I haven’t seen any Trump supporters criticize ANYTHING Trump says or does.’

Right here on this very thread. Liz, for example. A staunch Trump supporter. But no ... we’re just ‘brown shirts’ who are ‘immune to words’ according to Rush Limbaugh and others.


230 posted on 02/27/2016 10:33:47 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Dire Threat to Internet Free Speech? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Correction, Rush did not call us brown shirts. Others do. Rush just thinks we are controlled by ‘feelings’.


231 posted on 02/27/2016 10:34:32 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Dire Threat to Internet Free Speech? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Trump supporters are NOT immune to data.

Yes they are. They post CONSTANTLY that he'll get rid of the current population of illegals, despite proof that he not only hires and abuses them, but wants them back, rapidly, as legal immigrants and future Democrats.

Immune. And that's just one topic.

232 posted on 02/27/2016 11:01:11 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Democrat_media

“Not if an individual is labeled a public figure they can’t sue.”

Not true. Carol Burnett sued the National Enquirer and won. Shirley Jones sued the National Enquirer whether or not she could sue in California went up to the Supreme Court and they sided with her. After that, the NE settled with her out of court.


233 posted on 02/27/2016 11:11:52 AM PST by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: ConservativeTeen

Sounds like the late Hugo Chavez.


234 posted on 02/27/2016 11:20:50 AM PST by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: TBP
He doesn’t understand the concept of limited government.

He either doesn't understand it...or he doesn't have any intention of limiting his power.

235 posted on 02/27/2016 12:08:35 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: TBP

“You can’t sue people for writing bad things about you. That’s called free speech.”

If your local newspaper ran story about you being a gay pedophile, I think you’d agree with Trump. Maybe not.


236 posted on 02/27/2016 12:11:45 PM PST by Lower55
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To: Liz

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In a thread about libel and slander, why would you want to libel Benjamin Franklin?
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237 posted on 02/27/2016 12:56:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; Avoiding_Sulla; TBP; Carry_Okie; Liz; RoosterRedux

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>> “Notice that many Trump supporters are more than willing to criticize him when we think he deserves it.” <<

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No, now that you mention it, I have not seen that in evidence. Could you point out a few examples?
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238 posted on 02/27/2016 1:10:50 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; ConservativeTeen; TBP; BillyBoy; sickoflibs; AuH2ORepublican; randita

Warn him? That’s amusing.

Imagine a liberal judge declaring that FR libels Obama, post a vanity, get sued, get the site shut down.

What a great idea, stunningly great. This guy is no conservative.

Hopefully Congress wouldn’t be interested in this idea. Who knows if he’s even serious, this might just be his way of flipping off people today. He loves threatening people, I bet he collected a lot of lunch money back in the day.


239 posted on 02/27/2016 1:41:51 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: catfish1957
"Realize this could also apply to Rush, Levin, Drudge too, once another left(er) leaning POTUS takes charge."

Those will be the first a President Trump will try to silence, because the first to oppose him will be the conservatives who he betrays. Levin is already anti-Trump, Rush is publicly on the fence (but privately probably supports Cruz), and Drudge will follow the popular trends and the headlines.

240 posted on 02/27/2016 2:06:51 PM PST by magellan
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