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Trump Is Suing the Mainstream Media-- and They Ought to Be Afraid
Townhall.com ^ | 16 November A.D. 2024 | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 11/16/2024 4:39:36 PM PST by lightman

President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday, vowing to bring justice to his name after years of attacks from the mainstream media.

The incoming 47th president announced he is suing several media outlets, including the New York Times, CBS News, Penguin Random House, and the Daily Beast, alleging widespread bias and defamation. Trump’s lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, demands $10 billion in damages for publishing defamatory material.

In the lawsuit, Trump accused the mainstream media of “defaming and disparaging” him during coverage of the election and making “false and defamatory statements.”

The NYT was at the center of the lawsuit. In the 19-page filing, Trump’s lawyers wrote that the newspaper has been “a full-throated mouthpiece of the Democratic party” that engages in “industrial-scale libel against political opponents.” They also accused the publication of having “every intention of defaming and disparaging the world-renowned Trump brand that consumers have long associated with excellence, luxury, and success in entertainment, hospitality, and real estate, among many other industries, as well as falsely and maliciously defaming and disparaging him as a candidate for the highest office in the United States.”

The lawsuit specifically mentions the work written by journalists Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner, including a book titled Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success. Another headline was “As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator.”

The New York Times denied the claims, insisting its reporting has been accurate and evidence-based. CBS News also brushed off the allegations, dismissing the lawsuit as “completely without merit.” The Washington Post called the claims “improper” and “baseless.” Penguin Random House also stood by their reporting.

Critics claim the lawsuits incite attacks on press freedom, raising concerns about the future of the media.


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1 posted on 11/16/2024 4:39:36 PM PST by lightman
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To: lightman

His cabinet picks so far have pretty good grounds too.

I feel so bad, Tulsi was on a no fly list already?!


2 posted on 11/16/2024 4:40:56 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: lightman

“Critics claim the lawsuits incite attacks on press freedom, raising concerns about the future of the media.”

They had their chance to defend Alex Jones.

They started the war.

President Trump is going to finish it.


3 posted on 11/16/2024 4:41:27 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Didn’t the NY Times and the WA Post participate in the Russia collusion hoax?


4 posted on 11/16/2024 4:45:29 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: cgbg

I did notice when scanning headlines during the elction cycle, the NYT published at lease one anti-Trump story each and every day.


5 posted on 11/16/2024 4:45:53 PM PST by Robwin ( )
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“the NYT published at lease one anti-Trump story each and every day.”

I noticed that here on FR. There must have been five to ten highly negative stories every single day.

Objective analysis showed something like 95% of the MSM political stories were anti-Trump.


6 posted on 11/16/2024 4:49:30 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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To: Robwin

It is not just that the stories were anti-Trump.

—They used hostile name-calling not relevant to the story.
—They made factual errors, always against President Trump
—They repeated other defamatory stories from other outlets as if they were facts
—They treated unproven assertions, whether from unnamed sources or other media outlets, as if they were facts.


7 posted on 11/16/2024 4:56:11 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
I feel so bad, Tulsi was on a no fly list already?!

Yes. I watched an interview of Tulsi, where she said she would constantly be harassed at airports, put through insults and delays despite being a well-known politician and government leader. They put her and her family through torture. Time now for payback, sue and fire the jerks who unfairly did this to her.

8 posted on 11/16/2024 4:58:42 PM PST by roadcat ( )
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To: roadcat

And abolish the TSA while she’s at it.


9 posted on 11/16/2024 5:00:16 PM PST by Publius
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To: lightman

One word: Discovery


10 posted on 11/16/2024 5:01:58 PM PST by katana
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To: lightman

Smack them hard and bury them deep.


11 posted on 11/16/2024 5:03:03 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: cgbg

Well Prince Harry is still going at it with the Daily Mail and other British news....he did win one suite.


12 posted on 11/16/2024 5:08:50 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: lightman
Trump is the personification of indomitability. This is the great spirit of America. "Fight! Fight! Fight!" and never give up. He is exactly the role model the American People need.

Note tagline.

13 posted on 11/16/2024 5:12:57 PM PST by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America! Trump won because good TRiUMPhed over evil.)
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To: lightman

Speaking of PenguinRandomHouse:

“...the same Democrats who were calling for DOJ investigations and impeachments will no doubt sing a different tune over the revelation that liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor took $3.6 million from Penguin Random House publishing when the company did have business before the court, and declined to recuse herself.

In addition to the $3.6 million advance (which Penguin Random House lost money on), the Daily Wire found that Sotomayor received payments from the company annually from 2017 to 2021, totaling over $500,000. In 2013, she voted in a decision regarding a case involving Random House despite then-fellow Justice Stephen Breyer recusing himself after receiving money from the publisher. In 2020, Sotomayor received a $10,586 check from Penguin Random House on the same day a lawsuit against the publisher appeared before the Supreme Court. The Court voted not to hear the case in February 2020, and Sotomayor received her largest-ever payment from the publisher in May of that year....”


14 posted on 11/16/2024 5:18:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: lightman

He forgot the Wall Street Journal and Peggy Noonan.


15 posted on 11/16/2024 5:18:47 PM PST by Neanderthal (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: lightman

More Penguinrandomhouse :

Bill Clinton makes bombshell Jeffrey Epstein admission in new memoir
Daily Mail ^ | November 15 2024 | JOE HUTCHISON
Posted on 11/15/2024, 4:28:50 PM by knighthawk

Former president Bill Clinton has revealed that he regrets ever having met with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In his new book ‘Citizen’, which is scheduled to come out next week, Clinton, now 78, described his interactions with the convicted pedophile....


16 posted on 11/16/2024 5:19:43 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“I noticed that here on FR. There must have been five to ten highly negative stories every single day.”

Objective analysis showed something like 95% of the MSM political stories were anti-Trump.

#6 posted on 11/16/2024, 4:49:30 PM by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)


17 posted on 11/16/2024 5:19:53 PM PST by Grampa Dave (An answer to decades of fervent prayers: "Liberal women have spontaneously stopped procreating!")
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To: lightman

More Penguin Random House news:

U.S. begins court battle against publishing giants’ merger
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | August 2, 2022 | Marcy Gordon and Hillel Itlalie, Associated Press
Posted on 8/2/2022, 1:31:23 PM by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

WASHINGTON — The government and publishing titan Penguin Random House exchanged opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial Monday as the U.S. seeks to block the biggest U.S. book publisher from absorbing rival Simon & Schuster. The case comes as a key test of the Biden administration’s antitrust policy.

The Justice Department has sued to block the $2.2 billion merger, which would reduce the Big Five U.S. publishers to four.”


18 posted on 11/16/2024 5:21:21 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: lightman

CNN, MSNBC and The New York Times will be bankrupt before Trump’s term expires.

Those three specific Rat organs will be paying a very heavy price for their sedition and malfeasance. Their members are going to be hunted down and thrown in prison’s death row chambers.

They deserve pain. I personally hope they are severely tortured days and weeks before they are executed. /spit


19 posted on 11/16/2024 5:24:05 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Ge0ffrey

The NYT even got a Pulitzer Prize for their anonymously sourced Russia collusion lies, and they have yet to return it.


20 posted on 11/16/2024 5:27:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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