Trump 2020 Campaign Suit Against Washington Post Dismissed

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Source: Bloomberg

A defamation lawsuit by President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign against the Washington Post was dismissed by a federal judge.

US District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington ruled Friday that the campaign failed to meet the legal standards for defamation claims over the two articles at issue in the March 2020 suit. One was about the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the other was about Trump’s 2020 campaign strategy.

Contreras said the campaign failed to show the writer of the Mueller piece acted with “actual malice.” General allegations of political bias weren’t enough, and there wasn’t evidence the writer knowingly or recklessly published false information, the judge wrote.

The second article was an opinion piece protected by the First Amendment, Contreras found......

The Trump campaign filed several lawsuits against media outlets in 2020; judges in New York and Georgia previously tossed out cases against the New York Times and CNN, respectively. The former president himself has a separate, more recent defamation case against CNN pending. He also earlier this week filed a lawsuit against veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, but that was a copyright rather than defamation suit.



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/trump-2020-campaign-suit-against-washington-post-is-dismissed

[C_U_L8R]

1. Trump doesn't seem to tire of losing

Maybe he'll get sick of losing so much money on legal fees

[Justice matters.]

3. It's not HIS money, so probably not.

[C_U_L8R]

4. True.

And the idiots funding him don't have enough sense to know better.

[tonekat]

2. He lost again!

Because he's a losing loser.

[marmar]

5. Spamming the courts again

[no_hypocrisy]

6. He has to pay the WaPo's attorneys fees, right?

[Botany]

11. " He has to pay the WaPo's attorneys fees, right?"

[ZonkerHarris]

7. I'm a psychic: I see in the near future a lawyer's invoice going unpaid....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. he court found that the Trump campaign failed to plead actual malice

This was a fun opinion to read. TFG failed to properly alleged malice and so the case was dismissed. The standard for malice for a lawsuit against a public figure is actual knowledge or reckless disregard as to the truth of the statement. TFG claimed that statements were false because he does believe these statements and that the Washington Post must hate him because they disagree with him. TFG did not come close to proving malice.

Link to tweet

[mercuryblues]

9. Trump was wrong

I'm not tired of winning.

[SouthBayDem]

10. Contreras was nominated by Obama

https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/contreras-rudolph

[oldsoftie]

12. Damn, would've been nice it it were a trump judge. MUCH bigger slap in the face

[ck4829]

13. Kick