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Posted on 11/19/2025 8:43:55 AM PST by thegagline
O’Donnell seems to spend much of her days in a constant rave about Trump, Republicans, and the demise of the United States from her new home in Ireland. That is fine and an exercise of free speech. However, it may have crossed the line into defamation in her latest posting.
O’Donnell stated:
“Did you think it a million years that they would reelect a man who orchestrated an insurrection against the government? They would reelect that guy with all the charges of sex abuse? — the adjudicated rapist…And then I just saw this thing today about all the cases he’s settled with children, children’s families, accusations about him, that he chose to settle.”
“When are we going to be able to go, ‘We’re grown up enough to understand that this kind of deviant, psychotic, mentally ill behavior goes on at the highest level sometimes, and no matter where it goes on, it is our duty to stop it,’” O’Donnell continued in her unhinged rant…Shame, people. Shame on what has become of us.”
Notably, at least eleven months ago, O’Donnell called Trump a “rapist” and a “serial pedophile rapist.”
Trump previously sued over the claim that he is a rapist. He lost such a case against E. Jean Carroll after a judge ruled that her claim to have been raped by Trump was “substantially true.” The judge wrote: “The only issue on which the jury did not find in Ms Carroll’s favour was whether she proved that Mr Trump ‘raped’ her within the narrow, technical meaning of that term in the New York penal law.”
Nevertheless, Trump was not legally “adjudicated” to be a rapist. The addition of the word “adjudicated” could move the claim outside of mere opinion.
Even without that word, it is considered potentially defamatory to claim that Trump is, in fact, a rapist despite the earlier ruling in New York. MSNBC and the show “Morning Joe,” for example, quickly retracted a statement that Trump was a “rapist.”
The earlier denial of the defamation case certainly would help O’Donnell, but it is not dispositive. More importantly, that is not all that she said. The second claim is that Trump settled with the “children’s families” over abuse cases.
It is not clear what the basis for this allegation is, but Reuters reported months ago about fake headlines on the Internet claiming that prosecutors were considering “child molestation charges” against Trump.
It is not clear if O’Donnell can produce support for the claim. If she cannot, it would certainly constitute “per se” defamation.
The common law has long recognized per se categories of defamation where damages are presumed and special damages need not be proven. These include: (1) disparaging a person’s professional character or standing; (2) alleging a person is unchaste; (3) alleging that a person has committed a criminal act or act of moral turpitude; (4) alleging a person has a sexual or loathsome disease; and (5) attacking a person’s business or professional reputation.
Claiming that Trump settled child abuse cases would certainly trigger a couple of these categories.
The United Kingdom is generally a better jurisdiction to bring defamation cases than the United States, which has stronger free speech and free press protections.
In the United States, any such action would have to be brought under the higher standard. In New York Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court established the actual malice standard, requiring public officials to shoulder the higher burden of proving defamation. Under that standard, an official would have to show either actual knowledge of its falsity or a reckless disregard of the truth. That standard was later extended to public figures. If O’Donnell had no credible sources for this claim, it would appear to be clearly a reckless disregard of the truth.
That she said this to millions of followers only magnifies the general damages presumed in such cases.
Unless O’Donnell can argue truth as a defense with credible support for such settlements, she may have just given Trump a golden opportunity to pursue his long-time critic. There is no love lost between these two, but there could soon be a defamation action.
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Please, please sue this fat tub of dyke slop, I am so sick of her and her crap. And when these Epstein files are released and there is nothing in it about Trump, is Grossie going to apologize? I highly doubt it, same with that other bitch on TV Jasmiine Crockett screeching that Trump was protecting pedos
Wasn’t it Rosie who accused GWB of planting the bombs that destroyed the twin towers?
Failure to sue would be a tacit admission of the truth of the allegations, and open the door to others repeating the charge. Trump should sue her for several times what she is worth. For one thing, his reputation is worth several times what she is. For another it will have the effect of tamping down more cheap shots.
To be fair, there's a few Freerepublic posters who've claimed similar. (The "9-11 was an inside job" crew.)
Bottom line: Rosie O’Donnell is one deranged, miserable, perpetually tormented individual. Donald Trump is President of the United States and has triumphed over those that have tried to destroy him.
I can hardly wait for O’Donnell’s victims to come forth.
It is quite probable this could happen, given that she is a lesbian.
Homosexuals are something like 30 times more likely to molest children than heterosexuals.
Never pass up a chance to send the Irish police a report of her racist hate crimes for her “ching chong” comments. It’s easy...
https://www.garda.ie/en/reportahatecrime/
Youtube “ching chong”
https://youtu.be/Dmv04yKG-po?si=kb-mRkK-DEQVJ4qs
I have reported several times and they sent back a warning that I am “abusing a very important tool for combating hate and racism.”
So I report her again.
TDS is real and Dyke O’Donnell is living proof of stage 4 TDS. She is obsessed with incessant rants about him. I guess moving to Ireland wasn’t far enough, maybe Mars would do. Not very bright either, making accusations without any proof or evidence is a fools game. I hope Pres. Trump sues her into poverty.
Hey Rosie you lefty its not Us any more you moved out
This pig should focus more on her kid than her virtue signalling.
Get out the ABC/Snuffleupagus files. Rinse, repeat.
Is there anything actors don’t know?
>How to keep their mouths shut?
She better be mighty careful. There is no first amendment in Ireland.
EC
Biden called Trump a rapist last year.
Sue her based on her weight, you’d make bank.
Discovery will be a hoot...and hold the exculpatory evidence.
Because there is no 2nd. That’s what happens when you disarm the populace.
I believe it was her - wasn’t she a member of THE VIEW at the time? She said FIRE would not have done that much damage to the buildings...found it but lost the link.....
““I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel,” Ms. O’Donnell said during a show available on YouTube.””
She needs the lesson.
Joey boy was projecting. The only rapists I know of to be elected president are Joey boy and Billy Clinton.
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