Olivia Troye's attorney has responded to Kash Patel's demand for a retraction

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Mark Zaid is a first class attorney and Binnall is a hack who has filed a couple of lawsuits for trump. I love the concept of using a picture from Monty Python to respond to Patel's demand for a retraction

Link to tweet

[flying rabbit]

1. Snap!

[elleng]

2. LOLOLOL!!!

[edbermac]

3. LOL

[DoBW]

11. nice .......nt

[Punx]

21. My first thought as well.

Just the right amount of disrespect.

[Roy Rolling]

43. Next-Level

Not even respecting the demand with a serious reply. Well done, barrister, well done.

[GoCubsGo]

60. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person.

I blow my nose at you...

[Skittles]

4. that's the way to deal with fascist scum

don't just say no, MAKE FUN OF THEM

[endless summer]

5. That letter

is a thing of beauty and it will be a joy forever.

[sheshe2]

6. Slam dunk.

I love the Monty Pythons image.

[GB_RN]

7. Whooo!

Someone better have some aloe-coated toilet paper, because his ass just got burned! Hell, I can feel the heat from here!😂

What a bunch of incompetent morans (sic). Personally, even if you spotted them a tear in it, I wouldn’t trust any of them to find their way out of a wet paper bag.

[EarnestPutz]

20. I miss the old "Morans, get a brain" meme. Let's bring it back.

[Ocelot II]

8. Dear Mr. Binall:

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Very truly yours, and farting in your general direction,

Mark S. Zaid

[CousinIT]

9. If you don't want to wander into Naziland...

[EastBayGuy]

18. Thanks for the link. I found her opinion on Hunter Bide, a good read.

https://www.welivedit.news/p/the-hypocrisy-is-the-point

[orangecrush]

10. Awesome

[rsdsharp]

12. I'm reminded of the partner who would send scathing "fuck you" letters this time of year,

sign them “Best wishes for the holiday season.”

[COL Mustard]

58. I knew a guy in college who had business cards printed.....

"Fuck you. Strong letter to follow."

I used to get that regularly from him.

[Biophilic]

13. Oh, my god, what is not to like about his letter and picture.

Best laugh I’ve had today. Damn that is just a perfect response. Thank you, thank you.

[LisaM]

44. I think he meant "swath", not "swarth".

Oh well, the recipient will likely not notice that.

[rubbersole]

14. Kash, you should sue your parents for naming you Kash.

"Kashyap" sounds like a venereal disease.

[BattleRow]

33. Or kashyap could also be money talks..

[magicarpet]

56. Kashyap,... I thought it was a variation of a new condiment.

Like the one djt splats on the ceilings and walls at the White House when he gets real angry about something.

The Tangerine Traitor's standard ketchup tantrum.

[spanone]

15. Brilliant!!!

[Mr. Evil]

16. You know what...

that is the proverbial grand slam, down by 3 runs, with two out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning.

[Drum]

17. "Or I will taunt you a second time."

[ultralite001]

19. Monty Python says it best:

"I fart in your general direction"...

🤣🤣🤣

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. Frickin' AWESOME.

[Figarosmom]

23. Thats what quality looks like. .....nt

[bikes and bunnies]

24. Swath, not "swarth"

First class attorneys should proof read- or pay someone to proof read for them.

Otherwise, good letter.

[billh58]

27. See link

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/swarth

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Your point? Your link does not support the usage in the letter, not one bit

Do you think you are being supportive of the lawyer or the DU member?

[Emrys]

36. I'd assumed he meant swath (or even swathe) too, but that link does support this uncommon usage:

So how can we consider the FDA’s new policy an end to a ban when a large swarth of our community still cannot donate?

From Slate

[TomSlick]

31. I don't claim to be a first-class lawyer but

I always proof read, and have my assistant proof read, everything that goes out of the office over my signature. Even so, errors are sometimes missed. Every now and then, someone will point out the error and I apologize profusely if insincerely.

[LisaM]

45. LOL, I had the same thought.

I am a paralegal, I see attorneys make mistakes like this all the time and it's kind of annoying.

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3:

The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass, that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths

https://shakespeare-navigators.ewu.edu/TN_Navigator/Twelfth_Night_Act_2_Scene_3.html

[Hekate]

55. The Bard has spoken. And here I thought it was a Freudian slip.

[JoseBalow]

25. This qualifies as EPIC!

[HUAJIAO]

26. Priceless !!!!!

[Mike Nelson]

28. Made my day!

... love to Olivia and Mark!

[Wounded Bear]

29. "I fart in your general direction!"

[brer cat]

32. Very well done!

[proud patriot]

34. ha ha

[Emrys]

35. Solicitors' letter to Private Eye:

We act for Mr Arkell who is Retail Credit Manager of Granada TV Rental Ltd.

His attention has been drawn to an article appearing in the issue of Private Eye dated 9th April 1971 on page 4. The statements made about Mr Arkell are entirely untrue and clearly highly defamatory.

We are therefore instructed to require from you immediately your proposals for dealing with the matter. Mr Arkell's first concern is that there should be a full retraction at the earliest possible date in Private Eye and he will also want his costs paid. His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply.

The reply that the Eye sent back was:

We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell.

We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.

A libel writ with a "curt note" arrived by return of post. The legal process continued for more than a year before the case fell apart and Private Eye was awarded costs. The Eye wrote "In view of the above, Mr Arkell has now, albeit belatedly, complied with the suggestion made to him at an earlier stage in the proceedings."

https://prunescape.fandom.com/wiki/The_Reply_Given_in_Arkell_v_Pressdram_(1971)

[GoneOffShore]

42. I was hoping someone would post this very thing!

[Dem2theMax]

37. I laughed so hard, I bet the neighbors five houses down could hear me.

Instant classic!



Now excuse me, while I go fart,
in honor of this masterpiece.

[MustLoveBeagles]

38. LoL

[yellow dahlia]

40. Mark Zaid and Olivia Troye - setting an excellent example.

[spudspud]

41. Your mother was a hamster, and your father, smelt of ELDERBERRIES!!! /nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. This made me smile

Jeff Clark is an idiot

Link to tweet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

49. Clark got owned

And he knows it.

[marcopolo63]

48. And he quotes the amazing H. L. Mencken...

…on top of a most delicious John Cleese raspberry. Fruit tree firmly planted and thriving!

[3auld6phart]

50. Home run

::
With Bases loaded. In the words of us ordinary pee- on s go pound sand.

[gay texan]

51. "I don't want to talk to you no more

you empty-headed legal type animal food-trough wiper!!!"

[Erda]

52. Bravo!

[Proud Cajun]

53. Olivia Troye's attorney has responded to Kash Patel's demand for a retraction

I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

54. 'Monty Python enters the chat': National Security expert scoffs at FBI nominee's threat

This response by Troye's attorney made me laugh

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2670350304/

A national security lawyer with a reputation for defending political whistleblowers appeared unfazed by legal threats flung by President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI.

In a legal letter on Friday, Mark Zaid sneered at demands Kash Patel made for Olivia Troye, a former counterterrorism aide to Mike Pence, to “publicly retract defamatory statements” of the MAGA loyalist. Zaid answered Patel’s lawyer Jesse Binnall, a veteran Trump attorney, by first noting that Troye’s statements have been previously stated “by a wide swath of the knowledgeable population.”

He then offered Patel’s attorney a visual image in his letter to reiterate his stance.

“But to answer your specific question as to Ms. Troye’s intensions as to a retraction, I think Monty Python expresses it best,” Zaid wrote above a photo of a mustached character from the Monty Python film known as the “French Taunter.”

“My counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social’s response to #KashPatel & his threat to sue me for being critical of him on media & stating he is unfit to serve as FBI Director,” Troye wrote on social media. “Monty Python enters the chat.”

And Zaid wasn’t done. He also launched a social media blitz where he dug into his unwavering defense of his client and referred to Patel as “thin-skinned.”

[Evolve Dammit]

57. "I fart in your general direction."

[mackdaddy]

59. I miss being able to tell satire from reality...

Things are so bizzaro world, I get confused.