# Trump threatens to sue Univision and NBC: Case can haz legs? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-sue-univision-and-nbc-case-can-haz-legs/723940 "2015-07-01T05:15:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-sue-univision-and-nbc-case-can-haz-legs/723940/81 "2015-07-10T14:09:48Z")
I was thinking along the lines of it being like yelling fire in a crowded theater. Or, now that corporations are people, allowing them to participate in acts of civil disobedience? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-sue-univision-and-nbc-case-can-haz-legs/723940/82 "2015-07-10T14:37:49Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > If Trump was serious he’d just buy NBC. In a couple of months it will be forgotten in the news and the suite quietly dropped. Because of course you can simply buy something the owner has no desire to sell? :dubious: NBC is owned 51% by Comcast and 49% by GE. Comcast paid GE $6.5 billion for that 51% back in 2009, making NBC worth $13 billion SIX YEARS AGO. This is considerably more than even the most self-inflated net worth Trump can imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-sue-univision-and-nbc-case-can-haz-legs/723940/83 "2015-07-10T14:40:35Z")
In March 2013, Comcast bought the rest of NBC Universal, so GE no longer owns any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-sue-univision-and-nbc-case-can-haz-legs/723940/84 "2015-07-10T15:11:30Z")
Ah, missed that. Thanks. Point is still that Trump cannot “just buy” something not for sale, and it is worth several times more than than he is on his best day. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-sue-univision-and-nbc-case-can-haz-legs/723940/85 "2015-07-11T06:25:18Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I’m not sure that anything Trump has said is criminal, or portends anything criminal that he might do. If he really does any kind of _actual_ civil rights violations, that’s all civil law rather than criminal law, isn’t it? And he hasn’t even really threatened that. He’s just pushing a nasty xenophobic political position, implying the kind of acts he’s like to see if he gets to be Prez (like building The Great Wall of Texas). I can’t see anything illegal about his advocacy, disgusting though it may be. I am probably going to lose this case, but I seem to be the advocate for that side. I don’t think the matter comes down to what Trump would do if elected president. I think the act of Trump characterizing Mexicans as rapists and drug pushers accomplishes the end of the race war tactic, namely popularizing this image. Stigmatize Mexicans as criminals and it will be that much easier to incarcerate them en masse. He did it once. If he is on your network, he very may well do it again. Is your network the platform for that kind of trash? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-threatens-to-sue-univision-and-nbc-case-can-haz-legs/723940.md?page=4)