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  • CNN Attorney Makes ‘Desperate’ Attempt To Win Back Jurors in $1 Billion Defamation Lawsuit—and Appears To Fall Flat

    01/11/2025 6:11:34 AM PST · by Twotone · 25 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 9, 2025 | Jessica Costescu
    PANAMA CITY, Fla.—CNN’s lead attorney, dealing with a jury that appeared bored as he grilled a Navy veteran over his finances, pivoted toward an explosive charge on Thursday. He effectively accused Zachary Young of lying when he testified that he hadn’t worked since CNN aired a segment accusing him of operating in an "illegal black market." The attorney, David Axelrod, produced a document he said was a contract between Young and an employer, Helios Global Inc., that was signed one month after the November 2021 segment ran. He argued that the case wouldn’t have gone to trial if Young had...
  • Blagojevich Urges Trump Legal Team to File Massive Defamation Suit Against Billionaire Pritzker After ABC News Agrees to $15M Settlement

    12/21/2024 8:02:30 AM PST · by PBRCat · 11 replies
    On Monday, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who remains a loyal and respected ally within President Donald Trump’s orbit – posted a statement on X urging the President-elect to sue Gov. JB Pritzker for defamation after the Democratic governor repeatedly referred to Trump as an “adjudicated rapist.” Last Friday, ABC News agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement and agreed to contribute $15 million to President Trump’s presidential foundation and museum to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump and his legal team against the network. Seizing on the opportunity – and continuing a more than 5-year feud with Pritzker, Blagojevich...
  • George Stephanopoulos ‘apoplectic, humiliated’ over ABC News’ $16M defamation suit settlement with Trump: source

    12/17/2024 4:15:20 PM PST · by Libloather · 79 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/17/24 | Alexandra Steigrad, Ariel Zilber, Carlos Greer
    ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is “apoplectic” and “humiliated” by the network’s decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, The Post has learned. Stephanopoulos, who claimed Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll during an interview with Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace, was particularly upset about being forced to apologize, a source with knowledge of the situation said. Another source told The Post that “George is defiant.” A third source said Stephanopoulos “is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, and a lot of them don’t work [at ABC anymore].“...
  • CNN’s Acosta Urges Media Outlets to ‘Stand Firm’ Against Trump After ABC Defamation Settlement

    12/17/2024 9:44:26 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/17/2024 | Jeff poor
    On Monday, during his hosting duties on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Jim Acosta called on media outlets to “stand firm” against President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to use the legal system to hold the press accountable. Acosta told CNN contributor Brian Stelter the media should not have to worry “about this sort of stuff.” “I just wonder, Brian, what this is going to mean for news organizations, for tech companies?” Acosta said. “We’re going to talk about the implications for tech companies in a moment, but it seems to me that there’s a lot of this bending the knee going on. And I’m...
  • George Stephanopoulos doesn't mention ABC News settlement with Trump's defamation lawsuit on his Sunday show (deletes his X account)

    12/16/2024 1:29:23 AM PST · by Libloather · 29 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12/15/24 | Lindsay Kornick
    ABC News host George Stephanopoulos ignored the news about his network’s massive settlement with President-elect Donald Trump on his Sunday show. Fox News Digital first reported on Saturday that ABC News and Stephanopoulos agreed to a settlement to avoid a costly trial over Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the network and anchor. News of the settlement, however, failed to appear on ABC’s "This Week." Instead, Stephanopoulos focused on stories about unidentified drones over New Jersey, ongoing conflicts in Syria and Trump’s cabinet picks. He also deleted his X account over the weekend. Stephanopoulos was the focus of the lawsuit after he...
  • Breaking: ABC News agrees to pay $15 million in Trump defamation suit

    12/14/2024 6:52:00 PM PST · by Alas Babylon! · 34 replies
    Fox News via MSN ^ | 14 Dec 2024 | Arthel Neville
    ‘Fox News Live’ co-host Arthel Neville reports on the breaking story.
  • George Stephanopoulos and ABC apologize to Trump, are forced to pay $15 million to settle defamation suit

    12/14/2024 12:42:06 PM PST · by conservative98 · 57 replies
    Fox News ^ | December 14, 2024 | By Gabriel Hays , Brooke Singman
    ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million. The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday, revealing that the two parties have come to an agreement and avoided a costly trial. According to the settlement, ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a "Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past." Additionally, the network will pay $1 million...
  • Trump, Stephanopoulos to sit for depositions next week in defamation case

    12/13/2024 5:10:04 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 44 replies
    Nypost ^ | 12/13/2024 | ZACH SCHONFELD
    President-elect Trump and anchor George Stephanopoulos will sit for depositions next week in Trump’s defamation case against ABC News, a judge ruled Friday. Trump sued the network and the anchor in March after Stephanopoulos repeatedly said on air that a jury found Trump “liable for rape” in a lawsuit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. The jury had found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law, but not rape. Following a discovery hearing on Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid ordered both Trump and Stephanopoulos to sit for depositions next week that could last up to four...
  • 'Why me?' Ex-Mike Pence adviser attacks Kash Patel then cries victim when met with defamation legal notice

    12/08/2024 5:46:27 AM PST · by Twotone · 33 replies
    The Blaze ^ | December 5, 2024 | Joseph Mackinnon
    Establishmentarians struggling with the likelihood of having little to no representation in the incoming administration have spent weeks attacking several of President-elect Donald Trump's picks to helm federal agencies of consequence. Although Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, has taken an inordinate amount of abuse, former National Security Council official Kash Patel has similarly become a top target for champions of the status quo, including Olivia Troye, a middling intelligence official in the George W. Bush administration who later served as an adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence. In conversation with identitarian MSNBC host Joy Reid this...
  • Kash Patel Demands Retraction: Ex-Pence Aide Faces Legal Threat Over ‘Defamatory’ Claims

    12/05/2024 9:32:43 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Headline USA ^ | 12/05/2024 | Luis Cornelio
    BREAKING: Kash Patel just sent a legal notice to Mike Pence's advisor, Olivia Troye, to immediately retract the defamatory statements she made about him or face massive legal action.On Joyles Reid's segment, Troye said, "Kash Patel is a delusional liar. And he would lie about making things up on operations. I think Mark Esper has talked about that as well. Where he put the lives of Navy SEALs at risk in an operation when it came to Nigeria." In their letter, Patel's lawyers said, "Litigation will be filed against you if you fail to publicly retract defamatory statements you made...
  • Controversial Muslim group CAIR forced to reveal sources of funding after defamation case against former employee backfires

    11/26/2024 1:30:20 AM PST · by Libloather · 10 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/25/24 | Victor Nava
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will be forced to open its books and reveal its sources of funding after a defamation suit it filed against a former employee completely backfired. US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled Monday that CAIR’s donors, funding sources – including potentially foreign ones – and any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of former chapter leader Lori Saroya’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group. Saroya filed a federal defamation complaint against CAIR in January after the group dropped its own lawsuit against the former employee,...
  • Metro NYC pols demand Whoopi Goldberg apologize for false Staten Island bakery slam — as store is flooded with orders

    11/15/2024 9:53:21 PM PST · by Morgana · 74 replies
    New York Post ^ | November 15, 2024 | Hannah Fierick and Emily Crane
    Staten Island leaders demanded Whoopi Goldberg apologize for falsely claiming a Big Apple bakery refused to serve her sweet treats because of her lefty politics — as the family-run business was inundated with orders. “The View” co-host sparked widespread outrage this week when she alleged that the beloved 145-year-old Holtermann’s Bakery on Staten Island declined to make her a batch of Charlotte Russe desserts due to her political beliefs. “Recently someone took to the national airwaves and defamed, frankly, this family business,” borough president, Vito Fossella, fumed at a news conference held outside the bakery on Friday. “We’re here to...
  • CNN Contributor Jonah Goldberg Retracts Statement After Misleading Voters with Erroneous ‘Execution’ Remark on Trump’s Cheney Comments

    11/01/2024 7:14:40 PM PDT · by bitt · 64 replies
    Another day, another hoax. The mainstream media’s relentless campaign to misrepresent former President Donald Trump has reached new heights. In a Friday appearance on CNN, so-called conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg falsely claimed that Trump suggested a firing squad execution for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). President Trump had criticized Cheney’s hawkish foreign policy views during an interview with Tucker Carlson on Thursday, condemning her stance on “endless wars.” At no point did Trump imply or suggest any such violent intentions toward Cheney—he merely called her out for her support of prolonged conflicts. Goldberg, however, attacked Trump with an inflammatory conclusion,...
  • Rumble Scores Discovery Win In Defamation Suit Against Founders Of Left-Wing Censorship Org

    09/19/2024 10:06:49 AM PDT · by CFW · 1 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 9/19/24 | Margot Cleveland
    The online video platform and web-host company Rumble scored a victory on Friday when a federal judge held Rumble could proceed with discovery in its defamation lawsuit against Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, the co-founders of Check My Ads. [snip]....meaning the country may soon learn much more about how the censorship-industrial complex functions — including Democrats and Media Matters’ alleged role. In late November, Rumble filed a two-count complaint in a federal court in Florida against Jammi and Atkins and ten unnamed John Doe Defendants. According to the complaint, Jammi and Atkins are co-founders of Check My Ads, a 501(c)...
  • Laura Loomer: I should sue Bill Maher for Defamation

    09/14/2024 10:06:53 PM PDT · by RandFan · 27 replies
    X ^ | Sep 14 | Laura Loomer
    @LauraLoomer I should sue Bill Maher @billmaher for Defamation. This is beyond the pale and it’s a complete and blatant lie. I have never in my life seen such a coordinated attack by the mainstream Media, the White House and leftist personalities to target a private citizen and investigative journalist simply because I flew on a plane and I support Donald Trump. This is unacceptable. And it’s a full blown LIE and incredibly disrespectful to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. It’s very obvious some type of memo went out because the reaction to what I said is completely...
  • IRS whistleblowers sue Hunter Biden’s defense counsel for defamation

    09/13/2024 9:17:58 PM PDT · by CFW · 2 replies
    Just the News ^ | 9/13/24 | Misty Severi
    The two IRS agents who blew the whistle on the Hunter Biden tax investigation and significantly altered the course of the case, on Friday night sued the first son’s lawyer Abbe Lowell for defamation. The two whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, are suing for libel because of the alleged damage done to their careers, and are requesting a jury trial in Washington, D.C. The whistleblowers originally brought concerns to the House Ways and Means Committee that the Justice Department had provided preferential treatment to Biden during a probe into his alleged tax violations. Shapley and Ziegler alleged in Friday's...
  • Both Firefox and Waterfox browsers re-direct Conservative shopping site to Google

    09/01/2024 7:40:20 AM PDT · by re_tail20 · 31 replies
    September 1, 2024 | re_tail20
    There are plenty of good web browsers to use, and Firefox and its Waterfox spinoff, most of the time, are good. But I noticed something the other day about both of them. I was trying to log onto this Conservative shopping site called “Patriot Depot”, and when I would put the web address in, it would automatically re-direct to Google. This was true for both of them. I tried this with my other browsers, and the site came on just fine with them. Perhaps some lefty programmer at Firefox put a re-direct as a practical joke. If true, given that...
  • Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against New York Times Revived by Second Circuit Court

    08/28/2024 4:05:25 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 08/28/2024 | Stephen Kruiser
    Defamation isn't always easy to prove in court. If it were, the New York Times and the Washington Post would be launching GoFundMe pages and holding bake sales to pay off their legal bills. Most prominent Republican candidates and politicians probably have at least a dozen legitimate defamation lawsuits against various mainstream media outlets that they'd file right away if they had a decent chance of winning. With publications like the Times and WaPo, the line between editorial opinion and journalism was obliterated years ago. They're not news organizations, they're one big op-ed. The editorial boards of both use their...
  • This Georgia Republican Defied Trump. Now He’s Fighting a Defamation Suit.

    08/16/2024 1:33:27 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Aug. 16, 2024, 11:19 a.m. ET | Nick Corasaniti
    Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, has been forced to spend half a million dollars defending himself in court for having stood up to former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.The only way to spare himself from the defamation lawsuit he has been fighting, he and his lawyer say, would be to lie.The lawsuit centers on a 2020 video that purported to show election fraud in Georgia. The video, which was presented to state lawmakers, showed security footage of election workers tabulating ballots in Atlanta. Multiple news media outlets and the secretary of state’s office...
  • Esteemed Florida Circuit Court Judge, Robert L. Pegg, issued a Powerful Decision totally and completely DENYING the Pulitzer Prize Board’s desperate attempt to dismiss my ironclad Defamation Lawsuit

    07/20/2024 8:23:07 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 14 replies
    Truth ^ | 7/20/24 | DJT
    Just heard that today, during our amazing Rally in the Great State of Michigan, esteemed Florida Circuit Court Judge, Robert L. Pegg, issued a Powerful Decision totally and completely DENYING the Pulitzer Prize Board’s desperate attempt to dismiss my ironclad Defamation Lawsuit against them for awarding the once respected Pulitzer Prizes to Fake News Stories about the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax by The Failing New York Times and The Washington Compost. The Judge specifically stated that the Fake Stories, and the Prizes awarded them, have been debunked by several Government Investigations. He did not allow Pulitzer to hide behind the...