Posted on 08/23/2016 6:41:07 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Donald Trump has hired the lawyer who helped Hulk Hogan win an invasion-of-privacy case against Gawker and given him a new mission: threaten legal action against several media outlets that picked up a Slovenian magazine's report claiming that Melania Trump worked as an escort in the 1990s.
The website Liberal America on Monday posted a letter it received from Hollywood attorney Charles Harder demanding a retraction and an apology. Politico reported that at least three other news organizations, including London's Daily Mail, received the same notice, which warns that Melania Trump will "institute immediate legal proceedings against you" if her conditions are not met.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Ya think!...I’m sure he gets lathered up,everytime Bezos comes to town
My guess is that he’s just jealous that he’s not as pretty as Melania.
The Snowflakes down at the Compost crying wolf AGAIN. The so called “media” NEEDS to be intimidated as freakquently as possible. Scumbag “democrats”.
bill was and is a rapist and goes to Islands to rape under age girls. But that’s not news
[Donald Trump’s latest act of media intimidation sets an alarming precedent. . .]
like telling the truth?
The Journalist’s Creed is a personal affirmation of journalism ethics written by Walter Williams in 1914. The creed has been published in more than 100 languages, and a bronze plaque of The Journalist’s Creed hangs at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Williams was the founding dean of the Missouri School of Journalism.
(I doubt many know the Journalist’s creed even exists.)
THE JOURNALIST’S CREED
I believe in the profession of journalism.
I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.
I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.
I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.
I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.
I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.
I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.
I believe that the journalism which succeeds best — and best deserves success — fears God and honors Man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist%27s_Creed
Since “escort” is code for “high priced hooker” damn right he should sue!
The fact that people who go digging up facts on Hitlery wind up dead just might intimidate the media types into finding other stories to work on.
Just curiosity, but why is it Donald Trump if the notice from the lawyers reads “the same notice, which warns that Melania Trump will “institute immediate legal proceedings against you”
We forget that Melania is a successful businesswoman in her own right and was such prior to her marriage to Trump.
The pathetic low-life creep has “loser” stamped all over his ugly face.
That thing has the evil grin of a homofascist.
Hillary never killed off anyone who might trip her up... oh, wait... there is a list of >60 people who have died mysteriously. But Trump has “latest act of media intimidation.....”
YEAAAAAHHHH SUE THE LYING MSM
That’s a very good precedent ! It’s about time !
Those filthy whinning MSM hope that they can go on lying without consequences ....????
GO TRUMP
The media is no longer in the news reporting business, they are outright liars and Pro-Hillary/Obama activists.
Part of the democrat War on Women, claiming that a woman has no rights or reputation and cannot act apart from her husband.
Trump’s trying to intimidate the media... JUST THE OPPOSITE! The media’s trying to intimidate Trump, firing this shot across his bow. What’s next, his children? They’re despicable.
Obama’s people and Clinton’s people have boasted publicly about picking up the phone and calling Bob Iger, or Les Moonves, or Brian Roberts, or Jeff Zucker, and “advising” them to change the focus or spin of a story, or to pull a story altogether, and having them immediately do as they were told.
Is he of the Hapsburg ancestry?
Actually, in common law, the publisher who falsely asserts one is or was a prostitute is strictly liable regardless of whether the one accused is a public figure. Melania, a public figure, has a winnable strict liability case against the media outlets making the assertion if it is not true.
After what the Propaganda corp media has done, they should feel lucky if we don't set up a Guillotine in Times square and start chopping heads off these propaganda agents.
Thousands are dead because these bastards used their monopoly of the transmitters to get that F***ing idiot into power. We shall be very lucky if millions of people don't die because those F***ing Propagandists in New York got this affirmative action fool into a position of power.
If Iran creates nukes, and if Iran uses nukes, that blood needs to be on the heads of the New York and Los Angles media propaganda agents who used their power to convinced people to put that fool into office.
They are responsible for Obama's legacy, and it is going to be one of mass suffering and death.
That idiot didn't get himself elected. *THEY* did it, and they need to be made to pay for the bloodshed they have caused, and will cause by their tampering with our election process.
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