Trump campaign sues New York Times for libel over 2019 op-ed

[fleur-de-lisa]

Source: The Hill

President Trump's reelection campaign is suing The New York Times for libel, claiming that the newspaper knowingly published false information about the president in an op-ed last year.

The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court on Wednesday, accuses the Times of intentionally defaming Trump with an op-ed claiming that his 2016 campaign had an "overarching deal" with Russia.

"The statements were and are 100 percent false and defamatory," Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for the campaign, said in a statement.

"The complaint alleges The Times was aware of the falsity at the time it published them, but did so for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign, while misleading its own readers in the process,” Ellis added.



Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/484758-trump-campaign-sues-new-york-times-for-libel-over-2019-op-ed

[mobeau69]

1. Good to see them wasting their money.

[HopeAgain]

2. Good

Discovery here we come.

[rurallib]

13. let it be, let it be, oh please let it be!

[Darwin2019]

3. Another BS move by tRump

The discovery in the case would kill Trump

[Under The Radar]

14. Likely why it is the campaign suing instead of Trump directly

So that Trump himself will not have to testify and only campaign managers

[TomSlick]

16. Oh, I'm betting the NYT subpoenas Trump for a deposition.

[Under The Radar]

20. He is certainly picking on the man with the deepest pockets in the world

I wish Bezos would get more involved in exposing this fraud. Perhaps this will be a reason.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. 100 percent?

Could be a test case for diminishing free speech?

[not fooled]

5. Ooh, goody

Are they gonna sue for every one of red don's lies that gets reported as such?

Even the deep-pockets campaign to re-install him will be bankrupt pretty soon.

[iluvtennis]

6. 400+ page Mueller report + Senate Intelligence Cmte report + Intelligence agency reports all prove

this lawsuit is nothing but BS.

[Under The Radar]

21. There is your witness list right there

[IADEMO2004]

7. Testify Under Oath? tRump? Testify Under Oath? go for it

Wouldn't that open a can of worms for the turd?

[keithbvadu2]

9. Lying under oath would not bother Trump at all.

Lying under oath would not bother Trump at all.

He started his term in office lying with his hand on the Bible as he took his oath.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Isn't that the go to way

for Trump his entire life.....Intimidate the crap out of those, especially that can't defend themselves? Any one that crosses him, or confronts him. Contractors he didn't pay, real estate people, etc etc etc

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. In 2016, he threatened to crack down on the press, saying,

'We're going to open up libel laws, and we're going to have people sue you like you've never got sued before.'

[SunSeeker]

10. OMG. Hope the NYT brings an anti-SLAPP motion.

Then when the NYT wins, they should sue Trump for malicious prosecution.

[EndlessWire]

12. Wow.

Ya'll nailed it. The discovery would be awesome. I'd pay to be in on it. Then we can revisit the Mueller Report, all the discovery Schiff and Pelosi dug up, and all the rest.

So, does this mean that he did it, or just plans to do it? If I were Barr, I'd quit right now.

[Stuart G]

15. In a way, it is kind of funny. Trump suing anyone over lying about something..

Donald Trump may be the most well known liar in the entire world, and he definitely is the most well known in the U.S.A. A well known liar, accusing someone else, (who has an outstanding reputation for the truth) of lying.....

[olddad65]

17. So, all of his thousands of claims of fake news must be bogus

If he wants to sue over an op-ed, but, as lawsuit happy as he is, he never sues over all the news stories that he claimed were fake. Wonder why that is.

[Smackdown2019]

18. Russia if you are listening.....

That sounds like a campaign deal to me...

Case closed!

[melm00se]

19. Public figures

have an extremely steep hill to climb in asserting a claim of libel.

See New York Times Co. v. Sullivan which established the requirements that a public figure must meet to assert libel.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

22. Between the Trump suit and the Nunes nonsense, the GOP is becoming the party of SLAPP suits

CaronaHat Retweeted

Between the Trump suit and the Nunes nonsense, the GOP is becoming the party of SLAPP suits -- nuisance lawsuits designed to deter free expression. Pitiful.

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