This law will also have the benefit of creating at least one new job – a semaphore guy to replace his (now banned) teleprompter.
I wanna see his face when ALL the people he insulted and slandered use this law (not that it has any chance of passing) against HIM. But, he doesn’t get to rule by decree -
yet. It still has to go through the House and Senate. Not likely. A federal law to boot? Derp derp herp derp.
Mr. (gag) President. Hmm. Pass your new libel laws and you will never be able to Twitter again.
Also: he just sued Fusion GPS, for creating the dossier, and Buzzfeed for publishing it. Like I said in the Mueller thread, this is beautiful.
A suggestion I’m putting out there. This thread is over three hundred pages long.
Should we start a new thread on January 20th for the second year of the Trump Administration? And, if so, should we call it Trump Administration II: Electric Boogaloo?
No! I’m taking a perverse pride in how many posts Trump and his clusterfuck have spawned.
While the 'Pubs have become more and more numb to what’s going on, we have stood strong.
If we hit 20,000, we’ll have really been doing our job here!
It’s not Trump who’s brought the lawsuit; it’s Trump’s lawyer, because he’s mentioned in the dossier.
However, I think he may have shot himself in the foot in his own pleadings:
That’s a clear acknowledgement that Trump was the epitome of a public figure, which I would think drags the lawyer along, by associating with and representing that public figure. Wouldn’t that mean he has to meet the stringent 1st amendment test of knowledge and malice, because he himself is a public figure?
I would support that. I would go further. I have a real dislike for omnibus threads because they suck up all related matters and you have to be really dedicated to following it.
Huh. How come I only see 153?
Your “posts per page” number is probably different from that Doper’s.
I only have 77 (because I have “posts per page” set at 200).
IANAL, but it would seem that the other part that makes success of this lawsuit unlikely is that Steele, on behalf of Fusion GPS, seems to have merely compiled a series of reports gathered from various independent sources, with no particular editorial expression of opinion as to their accuracy. It would seem, therefore, that there is no libel by Steele or Fusion GPS (and certainly not by Buzzfeed) and that Cohen should be going after the unnamed original sources, if anyone. I’m quite happy to be corrected on this if I’m getting the details wrong.
Sorry, I miss read that as Cohen filed it on Trump’s behalf, not on his own. Still hilarious.
Buzzfeed is taking the line that the document was the center of public discussion at the time they published it, and that therefore they had a legitimate interest in providing it to the public, regardless of its veracity.
Fusion and Steele haven’t responded, but I don’t think they will have any trouble. Cohen is claiming that the Dossier contains false statements about him. That means he’s going to have to prove in court that the dossier is untruthful, not merely incorrect, getting a court to rule on the nature of the whole document.
In short - the Republicans are full of shit. Trying to take their shit to court is unlikely to work out for them in the long run. But as with the earlier court case we were discussing a few days ago, Manafort askign a judge to shut Mueller down, I think they’re hoping to get this up to the Supreme Court and hoping that “their” justice will stay “loyal”.
Trump claims that news anchors sent him letters of praise over the meeting he had in the White House yesterday. When asked which news anchors did that, which would seem to be a violation of journalistic ethics, the list provided by the White House was of CNN videos and a bunch of tweets. No letters. And none of the people in them were news anchors.
And none seemed particularly complimentary.
You’ve been here for 19 years; how much more dedicated need one be?
And to lighten things up a little, here’s Donald Trump’s Anthem, a bad lip reading:
For all we know, those ARE the words he sang. Because he is, like, the best singer with the best words.When discussing religion with some particularly devout people, I’ve occasionally said that I can’t accept any ideology in which it’s considered a generally good thing that people are tortured for all eternity. Is there any crime or number of crimes that can be committed in a finite lifespan, that justifies eternal torment?
…I withdraw my objection.
In other news, I hear* from Wolff’s book that there are White House staffers planning on replacing “Hail to the Chief” with this song:
* well, close enough.