Trump reelection campaign is suing a tiny WI TV station for airing ad showing Trump downplaying C19

[Demovictory9]

This year, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed defamation lawsuits against three of the country’s most prominent news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. Then it filed another suit against a somewhat lower-profile news organization: northern Wisconsin’s WJFW-TV, which serves the 134th-largest market in the country.

The Trump campaign sued the station over what it claims is a false and defamatory ad WJFW aired that showed Trump downplaying the threat of the coronavirus as a line tracking new COVID-19 infections ticks up and up on the screen.

Dozens of stations ran the ad. But the Trump campaign chose to sue just NBC-affiliate WJFW, which is owned by a relatively small company that only has two other local TV stations, both in Bangor, Maine. The campaign did not initially sue the political organization that produced the ad. That group later joined the case as a defendant.

The curious lawsuit is part of a larger, aggressive and exceedingly expensive legal operation by the Trump campaign that’s the focus of our latest “Trump, Inc.” podcast.

The campaign has spent over $16 million on litigation and other legal costs — more than any past presidential campaign and more than 10 times what presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has spent on legal services, according to disclosures.

https://ctmirror.org/2020/07/26/the-trump-campaigns-legal-strategy-includes-suing-a-tiny-tv-station-in-northern-wisconsin/

[Cha]

1. Treasonous trump & his enablers are Scared

shitless of REALITY.

[Demovictory9]

2. yes they are

[Cha]

4. & trump is the one who made that REALITY So

LETHAL.

TOUGH Shit for them they want to Erase it.. Meet Twitter & the Internet Asshole traitors to your country.

[lagomorph777]

13. It's defamatory because it uses actual clips of Trump defaming himself with bad behavior.

[Cha]

17. Exactly.. they should know how stupid & GD EVIL

they look 'cause they are.

[TeamPooka]

3. Trump is trying to intimidate small indy stations to not accept Anti-Trump ads and

that their legal costs will outweigh any ad sales.
Deplorable

[lagomorph777]

14. NBC should step in and crush this.

Their affiliates need ad dollars too!

[Doodley]

5. And yet Trump ads are full of lies and try to create fear by claiming Biden will defund police.

[Tanuki]

6. I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds like abuse of process to me.

[maxrandb]

8. He's been abusing process for 50 years

If we had a truly free and impartial justice system in this country, this orange asspickle would have been jailed for shit like this 40 years ago.

Since our "justice" system is 1,000 times more concerned with poor people selling loose cigarettes than it is with the powerful and connected that do "real" harm, he skates.

The fact that Donnie Dipshit is in the White House and not a prison cell is not only an indictment of 45% of the American people, it's an indictment of our entire criminal justice system.

[Tanuki]

9. Well said. This horrific scenario we find ourselves in was completely

avoidable, had justice been served to that freak at any point in the past.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Is this a new suit, or the one they filed three months ago?

Mon Apr 13, 2020: Trump campaign sues TV station over Democratic super PAC ad

Trump campaign sues TV station over Democratic super PAC ad

Source: The Hill

Trump campaign sues TV station over Democratic super PAC ad

BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 04/13/20 11:19 AM EDT

President Trump’s reelection campaign on Monday filed a defamation lawsuit against a Wisconsin television station for running an ad cut by the liberal super PAC Priorities USA alleging the president called the coronavirus a “hoax.”

The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages and legal fees from the NBC affiliate, WJFW-NBC of Rhineland, accusing the station of having “perpetrated a fraud on the public by recklessly broadcasting [Priorities USA’s] defamatory and false advertisement, which WJFW-NBC knew or should have known was produced through the use of technology that depicted a clearly false statement.”

{snip}

The local news station did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Trump campaign sent cease-and-desist letters to WJFW and other TV stations in key battleground states last month warning they would face legal action for running the Priorities USA ad.

Priorities USA, the largest Democratic super PAC, which is backing presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden, has put nearly $7 million behind the ad, which is running in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

{snip}

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/492499-trump-campaign-sues-tv-station-over-democratic-super-pac-ad

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HappyGoodFridayHat Retweeted

The Trump campaign is suing WJFW-NBC of Rhinelander, WI for airing a
@prioritiesUSA
ad it claims is false --

Link to tweet

This lawsuit has next-to-zero chance of succeeding, but it has a great chance of forcing a small local television station to spend a huge amount on lawyers.

Link to tweet

[Tanuki]

11. Meanwhile, Trump doesn't have to depend a dime of his own or his

business' money, since the suit was filed by his campaign. All of the legal fees are covered by the fools that send him money.

[OrlandoDem2]

10. Well this'll gain a lot of voters.

[Talitha]

12. Hopefully, Priorities USA - the super PAC - will hire the needed lawyers.

I'm in WJFW's viewing area but rarely tune in.

Haven't seen the ad, but I'd like to!

[mucifer]

15. Hoping that Disney heiress or Bloomberg or someone will pay the lawyers

At this point there might even be lawyers willing to do it pro bono

[MagickMuffin]

16. This will ultimately get tossed out 1st Amendment

I hope the station continues to air the ad ad nauseam. Make their blood boil.

They will not nor should they be allowed to sue someone because their feelings get hurt.

News Alert mr pResident, you only have yourself to blame. Your thoughts, words, and actions are coming for ya. Suck it up, you're only going to make things worse for yourself. But you have no self control, so I know you'll only keep making things worse for yourself and everyone else in the country.